The article presents the information on the foundation and improvement of functioning the late 18th–early 19th centuries schools of Irkutsk («gradskaya» and the Main State Public School), the first general educational institutions of the capital of Eastern Siberia.

This study considers the main stages of the Tyumen Region teacher training education described from the Abolition of Serfdom in 1861, and presented nowadays. The range of sources is supposed to be wide enough, and represented by the following main groups, i.e. legislative acts, office documentation, statistics materials, periodicals in the resource database. The archival documents are analyzed at the Tyumen Region Fund of State Archive (GATO). The author presents the five main periods investigated as pre-institutional, institutional, university, reconstructing, and current Scholarship.

This article reflects on the dynamics of the formation of a student's personality in a digital environment. As a result of the research, the authors focus on the participant of a network project who discovers the immediacy of knowledge in a network dialogue thanks to creative insight, recorded technologically by specially prepared iconic devicesfor the digital environment. When forming various competencies, the student assigns abstract, formally normalized facts equipped with mediation technologies.

The relevance of the study is determined by the need to search for new methods and techniques in practice of teaching foreign languages in non-linguistic higher education institutions. The use of an e-portfolio provides with the necessary conditions for the formation of the professional foreign language communicative competence. The aim of the work is to research the didactic potential of an e-portfolio technology and to develop a model in order to improve the level of foreign language communicative competence of students in a technical university.