Modern approaches to engineering education

The authors of this paper explore alterations in subject - object relations between a teacher and a student in new educational paradigm when students direct their own learning-cognitive activity. Herewith the student is transformed from an object of the teacher's influence to a true subject of learning-cognitive activity. When implementing new pedagogical technologies such as distance-learning, e-learning and m-learning, one of the major problems for teachers is to create educational environment that allows students to direct their own learning-cognitive activity. Thus it is very important to explore axiological characteristics of electronic educational environment, its pedagogical value and pedagogic utility. Pedagogical value of electronic learning material is influenced not only by the phase providing information, but by the phase transmitting information. Different information barriers impede travel of information flows and their perception. These barriers reduce potential value of learning material. In new educational technologies (distance-learning, e-learning and m-learning) students receive strong psychological support through their communicative activity. Deficiency of communicative activity in learning results in inability to create favorable psychological climate and comfortable conditions for learning; decrease of interest in learning up to complete vanish of motivation to study through new technologies. The network educational communication is effective as it is based on a subject-subject model, where mutual interaction of subjects takes part. The arrangement of effective education in new educational environment requires considering characteristics of this environment as well as behavior of a person in this environment. New educational environment brings about new learning situations and relations.