The Role of Mentoring in Digital Literacy Development of Doctoral Students at British Universities

Elena Soltovets; Oxana Chigisheva; Anna Dmitrova

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Elena Soltovets ¹ ^* , Oxana Chigisheva ¹, Anna Dmitrova ¹

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¹ Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, RUSSIA^* Corresponding Author

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The relevance of the study is due to the global digitalization and search for tools and practices fostering the process of doctoral students` training for independent quality research using the full range of available digital tools. Digital skills require continuous improvement. Thus, this article is aimed at identifying the possibilities of using mentoring for digital literacy development of British PhDs. Using comparison and terminological analysis the research considers the changing phenomenon of mentoring under the influence of information and digital transformations, identifies important digital skills being developed by doctoral students in the process of mastering the programs offered by UK university libraries. It is also justified that today librarians serve as mentors and can effectively develop digital literacy of doctoral students. The materials are valuable for doctoral students, teachers, mentors, academic librarians who provide professional development programs for researchers working with digital research tools.

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British universities
digital age
digital literacy
doctoral students
information literacy
mentoring

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EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, 2020, Volume 16, Issue 4, Article No: em1839

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Soltovets, E., Chigisheva, O., & Dmitrova, A. (2020). The Role of Mentoring in Digital Literacy Development of Doctoral Students at British Universities. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 16(4), em1839. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/117782

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Soltovets E, Chigisheva O, Dmitrova A. The Role of Mentoring in Digital Literacy Development of Doctoral Students at British Universities. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2020;16(4):em1839. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/117782

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Soltovets E, Chigisheva O, Dmitrova A. The Role of Mentoring in Digital Literacy Development of Doctoral Students at British Universities. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2020;16(4), em1839. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/117782

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Soltovets, Elena, Oxana Chigisheva, and Anna Dmitrova. "The Role of Mentoring in Digital Literacy Development of Doctoral Students at British Universities". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education 2020 16 no. 4 (2020): em1839. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/117782

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Soltovets, E., Chigisheva, O., and Dmitrova, A. (2020). The Role of Mentoring in Digital Literacy Development of Doctoral Students at British Universities. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 16(4), em1839. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/117782

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Soltovets, Elena et al. "The Role of Mentoring in Digital Literacy Development of Doctoral Students at British Universities". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 16, no. 4, 2020, em1839. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/117782