Keyword: «methods of lecture designing and delivering»

The need to update the design and delivery methods of lecture as the main organizational form of teaching is recognized by the overwhelming majority of Russian and foreign scientists. However, orienting the academic community towards the introduction of interactive lectures, during which it is planned to use various tasks to enhance the students’ cognitive activity and develop their critical thinking, most researchers limit themselves to considering only the theoretical component of this problem, without offering any methodological solutions. Those publications that contain descriptions of certain techniques cannot claim to provide a systematic solution to the identified problem. The relevance of this study is due to the need of scientific and pedagogical staff of universities for scientifically based and experimentally tested methodological recommendations for organizing interactive discrete lectures. The purpose of the study is to develop methods for delivering an interactive discrete lecture based on the use of modern digital technologies and time management principles. An analysis of scientific and pedagogical literature has convinced us that many scientists today have some experience in using such technologies as “flipped classroom”, “problem-based learning”, etc., as well as various digital programs that provide formative control and feedback from the students during the lecture. However, this material needs to be systematized and transformed into a methodologically sound and experimentally tested system for designing and delivering an interactive lecture in the conditions of the modern university. The recommendations given in this article for the design of the structure of a discrete lecture, as well as the use of digital and problem-based methods in the presentation of educational information, are based on the results of an experimental study, thanks to which it became possible to find the reasons of the rare use of interactive tasks during lectures, the lecturers’ attitude to this problem, as well as the most effective forms of activating the students’ mental processes, allowing to increase students’ attention, and all these factors immediately affected the memorability and application of acquired knowledge to solving practical problems. Methodological recommendations cover such issues as time-management of a lecture, requirements for preparing an electronic presentation, the use of specialized digital programs for organizing formative control, methods of problem-based learning during a lecture, etc.