NEW TRENDS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF UKRAINIAN HIGHER EDUCATIONIN THE 21-ST CENTURY

Abstract

The article deals with defining new trends in the pedagogy of higher school in Ukraine. The main directions of pedagogical researches concerning higher education at the beginning of the 21-st century are stated. They are: joining of Ukraine to Bologna process with introduction of the European Credit and Transfer System (ECTS), students’ mobility and its other key principles, the ideas of life-long education and constant learning, computerization of educational process, competence approach to teaching, and some others. The dynamics of the changes under the influence of current events in the country is explained. New trends in the development of higher education in our country which have been formed as a reaction to social demands are defined. The autonomy of universities and high quality of education as corner stones of all changes are analyzed in this research. Great attention is paid to implementation of competence approach to teaching. New phenomena in the modern world such as life at super speeds and digitalization and their influence on higher school educational process are highlighted. Much attention is paid to distance learning and usage of the artificial intelligence as the most perspective directions in further development of educational systems. Eco thinking as one of the components of the new way of comprehending the environment is investigated. The necessity of training a new generation of specialists caused by appearance of new professions in the labor market such as biotechnologist, DNA consultant, biophysicist, gene engineer is grounded. Professional training of such specialists will require not only high computer literacy rate on the part of university educators but also working out new educational technologies and methods of teaching. The further development of the Ukrainian educational system will be focused on introduction of new approaches and computerized educational technologies.