Keyword: «educational technology»

The article is devoted to a comparative analysis of the effectiveness of innovative educational technologies used in the educational process of modern higher education. These include a round table, case studies and a web quest. The authors present the data of a conducted sociological inquiry illustrating the attitude of teachers and students to these methods.

This article discusses innovative educational technologies, the use of which affects the increase in students' motivation to the educational process in the English language. Described in detail one of the innovative learning technologies - the quest game.

The article considers with the problem of using modern educational technologies, namely case-technology, in the process of teaching a discipline the "Basics of life safety". Here the concepts are considered as "technology", "educational technology", "pedagogical technology", "case technology", and the didactic principles of the case method are revealed. The purpose of the research is a detection of possibility of application «case technology» as a means of forming of practical skills in the process of teaching a discipline the "Basics of life safety" at institutions of secondary vocational education. A pedagogical experiment conducted on the basis of the College of the Vyatka State University showed that the level of formation of practical skills in students of the experimental group was rather higher than in students from the control group. In the process of studying the "Basics of life safety", by students formed such practical skills as the ability to anticipate the occurrence of dangerous and emergency situations on their characteristic grounds, and also to use various information sources and the ability to apply the received knowledge in the field of safety in practice, to design models of personal safe behavior in everyday life and in various dangerous and emergency situations.

The article summarizes the first results in the area of online-learning.The problems caused by the online learning implementation are described. The ways to prevent these problems are suggested.

The article considers discussion as an educational technology which facilitates the development of law students’ universal skills. These universal skills comprise thinking competency, interactional competence, self competence. Being involved in discussion within the framework of an intellectual and rhetoric competition, students solve problem tasks. Thus, students’ research skills are improved in unconventional situations.