Irina G. Khangeldieva

The article is devoted to the problems of modern higher education, the current challenges of the digital revolution to leading university practices, its impact on the development of society and education in general. The author draws attention to three scenarios for the development of the future proposed by the Israeli researcher, J. Harrari (conservative, radical and superradical). The article presents the experience of the new alternative US university, which has no analogues in the world, is fully built on the basis of digital technology and conducts the educational process only in an online format. The university is positioned as one of the answers to the challenges to education by the digital revolution. The article analyzes the main features of the digital university-startup “Minerva”, reveals the reasons for its occurrence, the specifics of its development and functioning, determines both its positive qualities and some problem areas, presents the logic of the educational process and educational technology, which the founders of the University of Minerva interpret as your own educational know how. An assumption is made about the multiplicity of options for future digital universities.

The article is devoted to understanding the educational ecosystem as a new trend in the development of modern world education. An educational ecosystem is a special case of ecosystems that characterize the organizational structures of modern business in the era of globalization, built on the principles of integration and cooperation. The first researchers of educational ecosystems interpret them as one of the tools for transforming the existing educational paradigm and the traditional education model, with the help of which traditional education models corresponding to the sustainability of the SPOD world can be transformed into new education models demanded by the instability of the VUCA world. The article considers the educational ecosystem as a theoretical concept and real practice. A working defi nition of the educational ecosystem is given, its roots are established that go back to natural science, later management, the social nature of educational ecosystems is determined, based on the social needs of modern society, a brief description of the main most universal qualities is given, based on existing research, their sociocultural functions are highlighted. In addition, the universal archetypes of the sociocultural functions of educational ecosystems («Weaving», «Gardening», «Storyteller», «Thinker», «Developer- designer or architect»). highlighted by previous researchers for the first time are considered in the mirror of the concept of I. Azides about «4 vitamins of successful management». Along with this, the article provides examples of Russian experiences in the implementation of educational ecosystems, which mainly arise on the basis of the creative industries of capital centers or large cities.

Videohosting as a demanded innovative tool of learning in the world digitalization of education The article is devoted to video hosting as an innovative learning tool, identifying the causes of its occurrence (sociocultural and technological), a working definition of this phenomenon is given, the main ontological characteristics of this digital resource are established, the basic sociocultural and educational functions of video hosting are defined, their classification is proposed, examples of use in teaching practice are given. Russian as a foreign language. The main world, Russian and Chinese video hosting sites are presented.

This research focuses on the problem of identifying the ontological status and social nature of such phenomena as creativity and innovation in the refraction of pedagogical practices in the evolutionary aspect. The author focuses on the analysis of the history and methodology of studying the general and the particular in creativity and innovation based on extensive historical, civilizational and cultural material, as well as on attracting a significant amount of relevant material from foreign and Russian studies of recent years, which are distinguished by fundamentality and novelty.

The research aims to determine the natural priority characteristics of these phenomena and identify their similarities and differences in various aspects (to show the difference in attitudes towards novelty, and the time factor, as well as how these issues are resolved differently …) and show the possibility and conditions for merging these phenomena under certain circumstances

The second part of the research analyzes the evolution of creativity and innovation in the context of various pedagogical practices, from their primitive prototypes to contemporary digital transformations in the context of creativity and innovation.