Joint Activity of Autonomous Actors in an Open Educational Environment

Recently, a considerable literature has grown up around the theme of the transition to the digital economy, the increasing value of the individual with unique features and the ability for self-conscious activity. In order to improve the quality of teaching, it is necessary to develop a methodology of targeted application in the education of jointly distributed activities, characteristic of modern youth. In this regard, this article aims at the development of the assessment criteria and identification of actor’s autonomy levels and their joint activities in the educational process, and definition of methods for organizing jointly distributed activities of autonomous actors in the education. The leading methods in the study were monitoring the activities of teachers and students in social networks, especially on educational communication platforms, identifying and comparing the characteristics of these activities; analysis of the products of educational activities of students interacting in educational networks; expert assessments to determine the level of quality of the achieved results. The article justifies the criteria of assessment of the levels of the educational actors’ autonomy and their activities, developed the methods of organizing jointly distributed activities of autonomous actors of the educational process and revealed the possibility of changing their functional roles depending on the type of their interaction. The materials presented in the article allow creating the organizational and methodological conditions for the formation of virtual training groups, taking into account the level of preparedness of autonomous actors for joint educational activities in order to improve the quality of teaching.