The Preparatory School for international students, as well as the other main structural divisions of KFU, provided a continuous educational process in the second semester of the 2019-2020 academic year and since March 28, 2020 carries out educational activities exclusively in the distance format. Microsoft Teams, Skype, video chat systems, social media chat rooms, electronic educational developments (ESM), online courses on the Russian Open Education platform and others are widely used. All students at the Preparatory School, including students located in China, are connected. Classes are held in accordance with the schedule and daily monitoring of the learning process is carried out.
At the beginning of the school year, the Preparatory School, in the framework of improving the educational process and using various forms of organizing the educational process, developed distance courses on Russian as a foreign language and the main general educational disciplines in Russian, focused on assisting in preparing for the entrance exams to Russian universities. These online courses in the current training format have proved to be a very effective resource for students of the preparatory faculty and future applicants of KFU.
The following courses are freely available on the Stepik educational platform: the first introductory part of the course “Russian as a Foreign Language. I will study in Russia ” (https://stepik.org/invitation/a0d30df186548fbe64a861e4ae87e5d76adab875/);
“Russian as a foreign language. I study in Russia. Reading Rules
(https://stepik.org/invitation/9c7ffa35eaa6ce675709d4e0886a7330b58ab0c6/).
Currently, teachers of the Preparatory School are developing online courses in all educational subjects.
The Preparatory School expands the scope of its educational activities by creating resource centers in the countries of far and near abroad for preparing for entrance exams to Russian higher educational institutions. In the framework of cooperation between KFU and schools in the Sichuan province of China, teachers of the Preparatory School help Chinese students learn
Russian in a remote format. The interaction of teachers of KFU and students of schools Jin Tang (Chengdu) and Xing Wei (Yibin) takes place on the Microsoft platform using Microsoft Teams components. Students of Chinese schools also got the opportunity to test on the platform edu.kpfu.ru, which presents electronic educational developments (ESM) of teachers of the Preparatory School for international students in various sections of the RCT and disciplines. The aim of this work is to improve the language training of applicants for further admission to the main educational programs of KFU.
