Alfiya Masalimova

The need for innovative technologies introduction in the educational process of universities actualized the study aimed at identifying the students’ role and attitude to the use of new approaches in education using modern technologies and assessing the opportunities of these technologies in the formation of the required competences. In this regard, the purpose of this study is to identify the influence of innovative technologies use in the educational work of universities on the process of students' relevant competences formation. The leading approach to the study of this problem is the integrated approach, including a variety of research methods: observation, survey (in the form of questionnaires), generalization of results, the method of graphic visualization, allowing to present a complete picture of the study how innovative technologies influence the process of competences formation. The article presents the characteristics of students’ attitude to the innovative technologies use, which allows identifying the possibilities and influence of e-learning on the process of students' competences formation. The innovative system LMS Blackboard Learn is used in the competences formation of students interviewed in the research process. It is considered by the authors on the example of Kazan National Research Technical University named after A.N.Tupolev (Kazan). Its implementation is due to the digitalization of the entire economy, as the preparation for work in the new modern conditions of higher education graduates requires the introduction of new educational technologies in the educational process. The implementation of innovative educational technologies in the educational work, focused on training with the use of modern means of electronic communication, will allow increasing the scale and quality of learning disciplines by the students, improving transparency and control of the learning results’ estimation, and enhance information-methodical competences of the teachers.

The lack of agreement between labor market and the market of educational services, shortage of qualified personnel, the lack of effective partnerships between the system of higher and vocational education, the lack of working professions’ prestige – all this actualized the study of higher and vocational education integration problem, providing effective training of qualified personnel in demand in the modern labor market. In this regard, the purpose of this study is to reveal the integrative relations of higher and vocational education organizations at content and methodological levels. The leading approach to the study of this problem is an integrative approach that ensures the integrity and continuity of the content and methodological components of higher and vocational education systems. The article reveals the integrative relations of higher and vocational education institutions on the content level, which suggests the consistency of the educational curricula of vocational college and University in related specialties; consistency of academic disciplines’ content in college and University; consistency of training and methodological support's content and on the methodological level, suggesting consistency of forms and methods of teaching in College and University; the similarity of learning activities and types of knowledge control for students. The relationship of content and methodological components of higher and vocational education systems helps to reduce the duration of training, providing continuity, variability and flexibility of professional curricula; to focus on the practical component of training; to form specialist’s integral characteristics of thinking and activities; to ensure social protection through the acquiring of working professions, qualification of technician and engineer; to provide for students the possibility to choose their own educational and career paths; to reduce the period for students’ professional adaptation and let them stay in the workplace.