Lobastova A.A.,Kaliberda N.V.
DNU, the Faculty of Applied Mathematics
The features of the innovative
processes in education
Innovation is a very versatile concept. It's
everything that directly reflects the ability of a person to a non-standard use
of the knowledge and experience, gained by him. Effective innovations in the
education are able to raise the quality of educational services.
Among the direct or indirect factors that lead to the
emergence of innovation, knowledge is a determining factor. In today's world,
the speed of dissemination of knowledge, the specificity of the diffusion of
innovation is such that the effect of the application of scientific knowledge
is based on technical and economic parity. This means that the chances to
succeed are given to those who have the best ideas, high competence and
profitable relationships that provide access to limited resources.
Consequently, the modern system of education must have a proactive attitude
towards the future. Education shall be strategically directed.
The unsatisfactory state of education led to the necessity
of reformation. Objectives and tasks, which appeared before modern education in
the informative society, are changing, gradually traditional education system is replaced by personality-oriented
one, traditional methods are replaced by innovative, which foresee a displacement
of emphasis in training activity, its focus on the intellectual development of
students by diminishing the fate of reproductive activity , the use of tasks to
test different types of students activity, increasing the number of tasks and
so on.
The most important part of the learning process are
not computers, but teachers, armed with techniques of computer technologies.
Computer technologies can be used in an educational process
to improve its efficiency and development of students. Some software can help
teachers to develop general-educational, and also special skills in students and
thinking skills of high level faster and more efficiently than by using
traditional means. For example, using in the educational process of multimedia
presentations, publications and websites, created by students, it is possible
to develop such educational skills in students:
- presentation: oral presentation before the audience,
the ability to formulate succinctly their opinion, the use various multimedia facilities
and possibilities;
- publication: use of complete sentences, designed for
one person reading, combining of text and images, and periodic coverage of results
of researches;
- web site: publication of current information or
research results, communicating with a wide audience, gathering information
from different regions.
To implement in practice the introduction of new
information technologies in the educational process, it is actual their
studying by future teachers in the universities. To this end, the Faculty of
Applied Mathematics DNU has developed guidelines for studying the section
"Linear operators."
The specialty "Applied Mathematics" has a
well-balanced curriculum, in which what to teach is formed. One of the basic
and important courses is a course "Algebra and Geometry". During the
existence of the specialty it is very organically formed for teachers, unlike
the differentiated teaching of two separate courses of algebra and analytic
geometry.
The principle of the phase sequence is one of the
principles of knowledge, and, therefore, one of the principles learning. This
principle was formulated by Kant in his treatise "The Critique of Pure
Reason": "All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from
them to concepts and ends with ideas."
In order that the course "Algebra and
Geometry" takes place, the coherence in the work at reading lectures and
conducting workshops is necessary. The limited number of lectures and a large volume
of material make the teachers, who prepare this course, allocate even
theoretical material between lectures and workshops. It requires high
qualification of teacher, who leads workshops, because some of the ideas, which
were raised on lectures, must find a continuation on workshops.
Updating of methodical teaching within the framework
of Bologna process should take place in direction of an individual approach to
improve the quality of education and the development of creative capabilities
of students majoring in "Applied mathematics". In this context, an
integral look on the educational process as a system of interaction of contents,
forms and methods of teaching is required.
I believe that studying of such a course provides a possibility
in future to re-use own knowledge for development of intellectual and creative capabilities
of students, which later will allow them to become apt at self-realization, to work
on solving of important problems both independently and in a group. Due to it the
role of the teacher in the educational process is very responsible and quite
different from the one that is focused on traditional training.