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Social media have created zones for information sharing, collaboration, community formation and development, but despite their widespread use, little is known about the benefits or challenges of social media technology (SMT) use for academic purposes. Some publications declare that social media can make a good tool to blend pedagogy and technology in education, thus enhancing involvement of students who regard social networks as an inseparable part of their life. Furthermore, SMT is regarded useful to add to the r...

The paper argues that communicative competence and reflective skills are necessary attributes of future managers and expected learning outcomes of university graduates with Master degrees. Though believed seemingly opposite, these core competences can complement each other being developed concurrently and ultimately benefit students’ professional competence. The methodology used as the base for elective course design is the theory of step-by-step development of mental actions, the Multiple Intеlligеnсе Thеo...

Higher education of the 21st century is aimed at getting students prepared for living and working in a changing global environment as responsible citizens, creative persons and efficient professionals possessing both general and special competencies. In Russian Federation the structure and content of professional competences is determined by state standards for each industry serving as benchmarks for creating study programmes and specified in descriptors as expected learning outcomes. Communicative competence deve...