Model for designing interactive didactic content through free and Russian software

The authors of the article emphasize the importance of free and Russian software in education, as current political and economic conditions, changes in information and communication technologies paradigms, modern employer requirements, and regulatory legal documents all point to the need for their inclusion in the infrastructure of the economy, science, education and other spheres.The article aims to introduce free and Russian software for designing interactive didactic content to the pedagogical community, which highlights the novelty of the research. The article formulates principles for designing interactive didactic courses with gamification elements and presents a structural and functional model for using free and Russian software in designing such courses, which constitutes the theoretical significance of the study. The practical significance lies in the description of specific types of free software for designing individual elements of interactive courses.The methodological basis of the study consisted of general scientific and special methods, including questionnaires, surveys, interviews, and longitudinal monitoring of students’ activity results. The effectiveness of the author’s model of interactive didactic content design is proved by applying statistical criterion of G signs in the course of a specially organized pedagogical experiment. This pedagogical experiment allowed to establish a positive correlation between the active use of the author’s interactive didactic course with gamification elements and the level of cognitive activity of students.