Digital Pedagogy: Challenges and Readiness for Learning in Digital Environment

Abstract

Introduction. The article outlines the development trends of digital pedagogy and learning conditions in the new educational environment. The urgency of the study is justified through changes in technology and methods of providing education, as well as implications in the education sector with digital technologies and digital landscape. All of this helps improve the efficiency of educational activity and its outcome. However, it also requires digital literacy from its users. The novelty lies in identification of digital pedagogy problems and assessment of students' readiness for the implementation of digital tools in learning.Purpose. In our study, we will consider capabilities, challenges, and risks of education in a digital environment in an integrated way.Materials and Methods. We used theoretical methods for the analysis of digitalization state in the Russian and foreign education systems, and current requirements for digital skills of educational process participants. In the empirical part, the questionnaire method regarding teachers’ and students’ readiness level for the digital shift and ability to fully operate with digital educational environment was taken on the broad matter.Results. Various strategies and practices, models, and pedagogical innovations in the didactics development area were analyzed. We have revealed strengths and weaknesses, positive and problematic moments, organizational and didactic issues of learning in the digital landscape. Theoretical and methodological foundations of didactics under the conditions of digital transformation were structured. We analyzed the responses of teachers and students and draw a conclusion about their readiness for the digital shift in education.Discussion. The main factors that impact effective leaning in the digital landscape are stressed. It is proposed that digital pedagogy, as a new direction in science, is bound to answer plenty of questions regarding the digital shift. We have to enrich traditional methodology capabilities with a new content, modern tools and methods of teaching using digital technologies, as well as information and communications means, leaving the best to its side.