INNOVATIONS IN THE EDUCATION SYSTEM AND RELATED TO IT PROBLEMS

Abstract

The field of education has always represented and represents one of the innovative sectors of the economy, which literally determines the innovative activities of almost all other sectors, creates an innovative climate and a competitive environment in the country's economy. Introduction of changes (innovations) in the education system can be associated with:  the improvement of the goal of the education system, teaching/learning methods, the form of organization and management system;  the style of teaching activities and organizing the teaching-cognitive process;  the knowledge monitoring system and the assessment of education level;  the funding system;  educational and methodological support;  educational activities;  the improvement of educational curricula;  the activities of teachers and students. In general, the essence of innovation in education consists in searching for new approaches of young generation to education and to its successful application. The basic types of the technologies, which are being actively introduced in the universities educational processes, and the application of which for teaching purposes, are being increasingly extended, include: Internet technologies; electronic mail technologies; computer education programs; Web-technologies; the Dean’s electronic offices; e-learning, the mirror teaching methods and so on. In addition, focus should be shifted from problems relating to the implementation of technological changes in higher schools to those ones, which are directly related to the expected behaviors of teaching staff in higher education institutions. These problems include:  Creativity barrier. Members of the teaching staff, who are accustomed to working with the old programs, have no desire to make a difference, conduct training, take exams, develop, much less to spent money on all this. Mostly, they are hostile to all novelties in the educational system;  Conformism. Lack of desire for development, the fear of looking out of place and ridiculous. Members of the teaching staff often refused to make the unsual educational decisions;  Trait anxiety. Due to self-doubt, a lck of confidence in their own abilities, low self-esteem and because of fear in expressing their own views, some members of teaching staff are opposed to any change;  Rigidity of thinking. Members of teaching staff holding rigidity to past positions feel that their views are the only right solution, which they see as irreversible. They are not eager to acquire new knowledge and skills. The main reason for evasion of innovations in the modern education system consists in fact that with the appearance of new technologies and new devices, the quaetion arises as to whether these means will replace living labor. However, we should remember that these technologies mainly impact not on the number of jobs, but on the quality requirement of labor. For the support and development of innovative activities, the administration of the higher education institution should, first of all, take the formation of the motivation system for this activity as an orientation. Their task is to see these motives and use its possibilities to achieve the desired goals.