Formation of readiness teachers of higher education institutions to use modern educational technologies in professional activities
Abstract
In the article, one has highlighted the problem of timely and qualitative teachers’ training due to the application of modern educational technologies, when the process of the education system informatization is being activated. One has detected that the effectiveness of learning has been recently declining due to traditional methods, which causes low learning motivation, underdeveloped skills of planning activities concerning the educational aspect. At the same time, informatization of education is a complex of social and pedagogical changes in filling the educational space with information products, means, and technologies. One has characterized the components of traditional and contemporary approaches to teachers’ training in improving the professional level, described the classifications of learning technologies, and singled out Cloud Computing Deployment Models. One has analyzed modern educational technologies,
based on informatization of the educational process that is e-learning technologies as well as technologies, which are personality-oriented and aimed at student’s personal development in the context of e-pedagogy. One has
shown that taking into consideration the achievements of a traditional psychological and pedagogical science, it is possible to develop specific tasks for the creation and effective implementation of modern educational technologies in the educational process, especially the tasks of open education. One has justified the concept of «readiness» as a holistic manifestation of individual traits, usually distinguishing three constituents: cognitive, emotional, and
motivational. One has determined the essence of the outlined constituents of teachers’ readiness. The motivational component is characterized by the teacher’s positive attitude to the organization of students’ educational activities. The cognitive component as a person’s property to perceive, analyze, process information mentally, which is characterized by knowledge of technological models, fundamentals of technology, new technologies, and others. The activity-based component is a set of knowledge and their practical implementation and involves the active use of modern educational technologies in pedagogical professional practice as a means of cognition, development, creative process, and self-improvement. Certain examples from the author’s course on modern educational technologies (educational technologies in their historical development, project technology, and game learning technologies, information, and communication learning technologies) are provided. One has made conclusions that in addition to skills of using educational technologies, teachers apply a completely new approach to teaching educational material, naturally incorporating this knowledge into their practical and scientific activities, which leads to their teaching system improvement in general.
