Development of cultural linguistic module in open education courses

The article deals with the analysis of data and the development of the educational program "In Search of the National Russian Code: Educational Paths". The program is compiled according to the relevant trends in the field of proliferation and strengthening the position of the Russian language and education in Russian in the Commonwealth of Independent States and foreign countries. The authors justify the cultural-linguistic content of the program by the compliance with the modern scientific and methodological trends in studying and teaching Russian as a foreign language: forming the linguistic, communicative and cultural-linguistic competence through addressing such notions and national cultural code, national mentality, cross-cultural dialogue, etc. The materials of the study include the results of the questionnaire taken by the potential students in the open education course within the program "In Search of the National Russian Code: Educational Paths". The article features the analysis of 165 questionnaires by respondents from different student groups: post-graduate students, university and college teachers and schoolteachers in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The authors analyze the answers in three content blocks: motivation for education; the most relevant questions that should be included in the courses; the most efficient ways of presenting material, that is, educational technologies, forms and techniques based on which the interaction between the subjects of open courses should be built. The results of the study allow authors to make conclusions about the potential students' preferences and interests and round up the most relevant issues and popular educational technologies. Based on the study, the authors have designed the content and methodological solutions of the educational module "Man and the world in the mirror of the Russian word" within the curriculum of open education courses.