Educational Innovations and Challenges
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The aim of the study is to determine the effectiveness of using personalized digital ecosystems to develop research autonomy of Doctors of Philosophy (PhD) students. The study employed the following methods: longitudinal observations, calculation of indices of reflective activity and coefficients of strategic flexibility, and convergent parallel design. The study found that the development of students’ autonomy is possible due to the transition from structured to configured digital environments. Personalized digital tools (Zotero, Obsidian, ATLAS.ti, Voyant Tools, NVivo, Overleaf, Open Science Framework, etc.) were used to train three independent cohorts (2021–2025). The proposed digital ecosystems statistically significantly contributed to the development of key components of autonomy: the level of cognitive independence increased from 2.8 to 4.1 points (d=1.61), and the strategic flexibility indicator from 1.5 to 3.7 (d=3.22). Analysis of behavioural logs confirmed the formation of individual work processes, where the experimentation coefficient reached 0.8 in an open environment. Systematicians (31 people) demonstrated a stable growth of autonomy to 4.0 points, and Adaptive Researcher (13 people) reached a maximum index of 4.6, which indicates the effectiveness of free choice of tools. The final comparison of the 2021–2023 cohorts did not reveal statistical differences (F(2,65)=0.45, p=0.64), which confirms the stability of autonomy development at the level of 4.0±0.8 points regardless of the year of the start of the study. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the empirical comparison of open configurable versus structured digital environments using objective behavioural log-data, the identification of three distinct developmental trajectories, and the confirmation of effect stability across three independent cohorts.The practical significance of the research is identifying effective digital architectures that contribute to the professional development of the researchers at the third level of higher education.
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@article{2026DIGITAL,
title = {USE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES TO DEVELOP RESEARCH AUTONOMY OF TERTIARY STUDENTS},
author = {Олійник Ірина Вікторівна and Андрій Бондаренко and Наталія Волкова and Olha Lebid and Олег Лавніков},
journal = {Information Technologies and Learning Tools},
year = {2026},
doi = {10.33407/itlt.v113i3.6601},
url = {https://doi.org/10.33407/itlt.v113i3.6601}
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