Conceptualization of Psychological Interactions in Synthetic Learning Environments
Changes in the content and methods of education today are largely due to the use of modern information and communication technologies, and to describe the complex of General and specific organizational and methodological forms of education are increasingly using the terms «space», «landscape», «environment». However, intuitive clarity of these terms may not be enough to solve a number of research psychological, pedagogical and design problems. In the development of new teaching methods, in particular in the construction and use of synthetic learning environments, more clear conceptualization of environments and psychological interactions in these environments are desirable. The paper shows that it is possible to achieve a logically clearer description of synthetic, in particular learning, environments, as well as the activity of agents in these environments, if to consider the environment as a set of components with which the agent interacts or has the opportunity to interact. The components of synthetic learning environments are proposed to be considered as carriers of their characteristic knowledge environments - sets of knowledge elements available to the learner in the process of the educational task. In the processes of psychological interactions with the components of this knowledge environment of the student is reformed - replenished and restructured. At the same time, when performing a training task in a synthetic learning environment, changes can occur in the environment itself, including significant changes. On the basis of the set-theoretic method of describing the processes, some processes are considered, as a result of which there are changes in the knowledge environment of the student, as well as changes in the synthetic learning environment. Thus, in the proposed version of the conceptualization of psychological interactions of the student and the synthetic learning environment there can be taken into account a variety of their configuration, and each of them can be detailed in the same scheme.