The study aimed to test the hypothesis that students of a Belarusian university enrolled in distance learning programs with the use of distance educational technologies demonstrate higher levels of intrinsic motivation as well as a correlation between motivation and academic achievement compared to students in traditional face-to-face programs. The study included 114 students from the 2nd and 3rd year, attending face-to-face (N = 40) and distance learning programs (N = 74). The methods used included the “Academic Motivation Scale”, as well as the grade point average, and the Carol S. Dweck questionnaire to assess academic achievement. The findings showed that distance learning students exhibited a higher level of intrinsic academic motivation, while face-to-face students demonstrated a stronger presence of external motivation. Motivation among distance learning students was also found to be more strongly correlated with indicators of academic achievement.

Today, the educational services market of educational services is characterized by high competition among higher education institutions. The article analyzes the impact of the quantity and quality of contract students on the activities of an educational organization. The issue of positioning an educational organization is considered as one of the important aspects in the competition for contract students.

The article reveals the importance of the personality of an employee of the penitentiary system (penal system) in reforming the Russian penitentiary system in terms of humanizing relations both between employees and convicts, and between employees themselves. The role of the departmental higher education institution of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the education of the future employee of the penal system as a person and professional is substantiated. The value content of the moral education of cadets of a departmental university is determined, in which a special place belongs to ethical responsibility, as a value that finds an imperative continuation in the requirements imposed on the employee of the penal system by professional ethics. The scientific ideas of scientists about the professional ethics of an employee of the penal system, which reflects the norms and requirements for an employee, are analyzed. It is substantiated that the professional ethics of an employee of the penal system provides value content for the implementation of the moral education of cadets.

Currently, music education in universities in China is developing at an accelerated pace. But, unfortunately, the music education system focuses on the implementation of Western standards, sometimes neglecting the education and inheritance of Chinese traditional music. Because of this, there are problems that the government is trying to solve. The article briefly analyzes the current situation with music education at universities on the inheritance of traditional Chinese music, examines the importance of music education in terms of increasing cultural awareness, expanding the influence of traditional Chinese music. The authors reveal the educational aspect of traditional music in Chinese higher education.

The article discusses the possibilities of the university in determining and developing the cultural potential of a person in a modern historically changed society.

The article discusses the role and importance of understanding the future by university students, the importance of building a program of “teaching the future”, which emphasizes the importance of not only qualified training of the relevant specialist, but also the ability to hold the future as a real environment for new creative searches in the development of one’s specialty.

The article addresses the issue of coping behavior and coping strategies of students at a pedagogical university. Models of coping with stress, coping tasks, coping strategies, and personal coping resources are defined. The main approaches to the study of coping behavior, classifications of coping behavior in the interpretation of domestic and foreign researchers are highlighted. The connection between the coping strategies of pedagogical university students and their value orientations, readiness for pedagogical activity, neuropsychological characteristics, self-attitude, and defensive mechanisms of the personality is traced. Empirically, the adaptive and maladaptive coping strategies inherent to students of a pedagogical university, their situational and personal anxiety, as well as the relationship between anxiety and the prevailing coping strategies of future special education teachers are revealed.

In the context of current socio-cultural trends in our country and in the world, the interactive approach substantiates the process of interpersonal communication as a value and as the goal of educational activities. As a result, the educational result of interactive learning involves the personal actualization of the student with the involvement of his intellectual, creative and communicative resources. The established didactic goal is achieved through the study, comprehension, practical development of the content of the educational material and the acquisition of communication skills by students. The authors present the results of a semantic analysis of the correlation between the concepts of “communication” and “interaction”.

There are relatively few studies on the human motivation to get involved in watching fictional horror on the screen and how a horror movie affects people’s behavioral, cognitive and emotional reactions. Why do young people enjoy horror films, how individual differences affect the reaction and preference for horror films, whether horror films affect behavior, why we are afraid of certain “classes” of stimuli, and also how sympathy for horror develops... The author of the article analyzes the psychological aspect of this phenomenon, and also considers how it affects the psyche of modern students in the process of studying the discipline “Psychology of Cinema”.

The paper considers the teaching of the discipline “Economics” for university students, as well as the opportunities that this academic discipline provides for modern students and the youth, for society, the country as a whole.

The article analyzes the features and types of monitoring the progress of students of military universities in online foreign language teaching. The main technologies of its implementation are presented in the selected types of control. Based on the considered technologies and types of monitoring the progress of students, a model of monitoring students of military universities in foreign language classes in online learning has been compiled.

The article considers listening as an object of perceptual and semantic activity of students in the formation of foreign-language intercultural competence. The author analyzes the perception of foreign language speech as a multilevel hierarchical structure of mental activity. The metacognitive approach is considered as the basis of educational activity. The author analyzes modern approaches to the perception of auditory information, in particular, “topdown” and “bottom-up”. The article examines the problems faced by students of a language university in the process of learning listening in professionally directed foreign language teaching. Considerable attention is paid to the description of the stages of listening training and exercises at the appropriate stage. Considerable attention is paid to the description of the stages of listening training and exercises at the appropriate stage. The author comes to the conclusion that when teaching listening to students of a language university, it is necessary to observe stages, be sure to use analysis and introspection as separate stages, and also at the last stage include communicative tasks and problem situations in the work as one of the effective means of teaching the process under study.

The article presents the study results of the features for the secondary vocational education programs implementation on the basis of Russian universities. The advantages of integration and continuity of higher and secondary vocational education levels in modern Russian are shown.

The article discusses aspects of teaching listening in the process of teaching a foreign language at a language university. The author analyzes the concept of listening from the point of view of pedagogy, methodology and psychology. The main content of the study is the analysis of listening as a receptive type of speech activity in general, and in particular the author considers this type of speech when teaching students of the Philology direction. The author emphasizes the competencies on which the teacher relies in teaching students of this direction, as well as the stages of development of auditory skills. The article analyzes different types of listening in accordance with different approaches. Considerable attention is paid to teaching listening on the basis of competence-based, personality-oriented and interactive approaches. The author comes to the conclusion that the purpose of teaching foreign languages at the university is to teach communication, which implies the development of communicative and auditory skills.

A new educational paradigm in the context of socioal and cultural transformations and challenges of the modern information society determines the updated guidelines for the goals of the modern system of higher education. The positions of the development of the personal potential of the student are updated; centering on the student’s personality as a subject of selfdetermination, self-development, self-realization; mobile, capable of presenting uniqueness, success in the new changing conditions and requirements of society and the labor market from the standpoint of existing indicators of knowledge, skills, resources for productive action and opportunities for development. Solving the problem of understanding the use of the possibilities of the educational space of the university to form the image of a future specialist has become the main task of the study.

The article reveals the pedagogical potential of poster art in the education of military personnel. The relevance of posters at the present time is substantiated. It has been determined that the priority area for the use of posters is educational work with military personnel in a military team. It was revealed that the use of posters is aimed at the implementation of the tasks of manifestation and consolidation of a worldview position, the education of patriotism, the formation and development of personal and collective responsibility, the development of professional, personal and moral qualities that are important for a soldier, the development of creative abilities, the aesthetic perception of the surrounding reality, the establishment of a close harmonic ratio between the knowledge, skills and orientation of the personality of servicemen. It is concluded that the pedagogical potential of poster art in the education of military personnel has a dual focus: on the part of the officers on the personnel (designing and creating posters as part of educational work) and on the part of the personnel on themselves (in the process of performing their own artistic and creative activities).

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most innovative tools that opens up additional opportunities in the field of digitalization of military education. Penetrating into all areas of educational activities of a military university, AI is able to increase the efficiency of many management decisions, complementing the limited capabilities of people. The article reflects the main results of the author’s research on the problem of integrating AI technologies into the educational environment of a military university in the context of digitalization. In particular, the results of the analysis are presented regarding key aspects of the use of AI technologies in an educational organization. The main functions that can be improved using AI technologies have been identified. The problems arising in the process of introducing digital technologies are identified.

The article is devoted to the presentation of the principles of the communicative aspect of professional education of the modern generation of students at a pedagogical university. The author sets out in detail the social concept of the modern generation of students and highlights the distinctive features of this group, demonstrating the problems of interpersonal communication that negatively affect the professional competence of future teachers. The author reveals the following principles of the communicative aspect of professional education of students of a pedagogical university: humanistic, facilitative, the principle of creative activity, aesthetic, the principle of periodicity, the principle of development of social activity, the principle of consistency, the principle of democratic transformation, systematicity and consistency, the principle of integrated influence, the principle of differentiation and personal individualization verbal and non-verbal aestheticization of the educational institution.

The article discusses the phenomena of procrastination and Internet addiction of students, possible causes of their occurrence, features of the relationship between academic procrastination and Internet addiction, which are currently not sufficiently disclosed, that determines the need for further development of the stated problem. The purpose of the work is to analyze the problem under study, to identify the degree of severity and the relationship between the two phenomena in students. Based on the results of the study, the authors conclude that there is a correlation between them, the severity of which depends on the type of procrastination, and Internet addiction is associated with altruism.

The national education system modernization is associated with the various innovation inputs. The fast pace of taking place changes, the increasing complexity of tasks to ensure the education quality in its informatization and digitalization, the ever-increasing requirements for teachers’ professionalism and competence have led to the constant transformation of the teachers’ professional activity and various transforming of their functions, status and role positions, and used pedagogical tools. There are some aspects resulted the subject under consideration studying and analyzing to substantiate the author’s position on the possibilities and prospects of implementing the Subject-Subject education paradigm in interactive forms of joint creative activity due to each participant’s self-organization in the education process (teaching + learning).