Psychological Potentials of Modern ICT as A Tool for Ensuring Students’ Self-Fulfillment and Personal Well-Being in University Education

Abstract

The objective of this study was to present psychological possibilities of information -communication technologies that activate the different ways of students’ self -fulfillment in the learning process. The results of students’ interviews about the opportunities and conditions for self -fulfillment in university education are presented. Based on the thesaurus -analysis, authors reveal the semantic indicators of self -fulfillment as subjective -significant factors of personal well -being. Summarizing the obtained data, the authors disclosed psychological resources of modern information technologies through a dual -circuit model of ICT potentials, which activate these factors in the process of studying at a university. The first contour of actual opportunities ICT consists of potentials such as: descriptive, representative, exhibiting, navigation -orientation, search -heuristic, imprinting, adaptive, interactive, structural-organizational, control-evaluative, logistic, diversification, catalyzing, facilitating, and innovative. The second contour of latent potentials ICT contains more deep resources and includes the following potentials: reflexive, constructive-modeling, personalizing, activating, limitlessness, temporal, integrating, motivating, exteriorizing, and amplifying. Together, both contours of potentials form the holistic informational-favorable environment for self-fulfillments of students in the learning process.