Enhancing Knowledge Society Concept via Educational Projects.

The research tempted to understand the importance of a coordinated response to the challenges aroused from offering educational services to foreign citizens and adults by Ukrainian universities. The paper presents the experiences on how the information and communication technologies may be used in addressing challenges of modern society while changing the teaching approaches. Given Internet and informational-communication technologies role in effective building of the inclusive knowledge society the paper presents the overview of three case studies observed during a 4-7 years period at the basis of Sumy National Agrarian University: peer-design of the educational
courses and a MOODLE use for distance learning of foreign students (15 courses, 80 students), and rural citizens (386 farmers) education via Internet. The conclusions were delivered under the context of explored issues, challenges and opportunities of the knowledge society, open education and lifelong learning concepts. The paper highlights the importance of identifying good practices
in specific areas of youth and adult education within the educational projects under an increasing foreign students flow into the country and a rapidly rising number ofrural unemployed. The results of the paper try to generalize the best approaches to reach the aforementioned goals which may be further used by universities working in the same field.