Students' attitudes towards learning in the context of digitalization: Resources and risks

Abstract

The paper provides an analytical review of studies on the problem of resources and risks of digitalization of the professional training system. The article considers the use of information resources and interaction in the network in the process of training engineering specialists as a factor in their professional and personal growth. The content of engineering students' ideas about the features of self-realization in the new conditions of the digital environment is identified and systematized. The features of students' attitudes to learning in the context of digitalization of professional training are shown. The article presents the main results of an empirical study of engineering students' ideas about the methods of selfpresentation, motivation and obstacles to achieving success in the learning process in multi-level formats of the digital educational environment. The specifics of engineering students' ideas about the advantages and limitations of digitalization of the learning process are shown. Personal, cognitive, communicative, social and didactic risks of digital technologies in professional training are identified and described. The results of the study indicate that engineering students consider the digital environment as a resource space of new opportunities and vectors of self-realization, while adequately assessing the risks of digitalization of learning. A model of psychological support for an engineering student as a subject of selfrealization in a digital environment is proposed.