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Successful online learning if we look outside the didactics but in the field of personal development, from the anthropological bases, is in learner’s identification as an active subject of the learning
process. Activities that online learners perform correlate with the characteristics of the subjectness
that researchers revealed: spotting one’s own gaps in the educational environment and one’s
educational needs, satisfying them and enhancing one’s competence by means of online learning
(ability to change the environment and oneself inside that, reflexive way of life, realizing the principle
of development), searching, selecting and studying online courses on one’s own, supported first and
foremost by the intrinsic motivation (initiative), ability to plan and analyze one’s activity or inaction in
the course, managing the requirements and the deadlines of the assignments, as well as readiness to
accept the consequences of one’s choice (responsibility).
Therefore, successful online learners (those who study on their own, cope with the tasks in time and in
a proper way, achieve expected results) are characterized with such a subjectness which is based on
a set of general-cultural and general-professional competencies that should be formed. To define the
set of competencies which an online learner needs to become successful and study learners’ attitude
to them we have done a competency-based test (self-assessment questionnaire) in September -
November, 2017. The respondents were 2060 learners from TSU online courses offered on 3 elearning
platforms (population is 80938).
Learners responded that the following general-cultural competencies are of much help for them in
online learning: readiness to self-development, self-realization and using one’s own creativity (69,7%),
ability to organize and educate oneself (53,3%), ability to acquire new scientific and professional
knowledge using modern educational and informational technologies (62,3%), as well as ability to
imply means and methods of learning and self-control over one’s intellectual development, increasing
one’s cultural level and professional competence (50,2%).
Among general-professional competencies the learners replied that the most useful competencies for
online learning are computer skills for receiving, processing and managing information (79,5%), ability
to work with the main retrieval query systems (60,2%), ability to search for scientific information,
perform its critical analysis, to set research objectives and choosing appropriate methods and
technologies to achieve them (59,3%), ability to critically analyze the learning process and training
materials from the point of view of their effectiveness (54%) and ability to use polite manners in oral
and written speech (21,9%). At the same time, the respondents define general-cultural competencies
as more significant.
Therefore, the survey results proved our idea that successful online learning requires firstly, a set of
general-cultural competences (those which are connected to the learner’s personal development and
his/ her subjectness in the learning process) and secondly, a set of general-professional competencies
to be formed. This led us to the idea that assessing learner’s level of the general-cultural competences
we can predict his/ her future success in taking online courses.