Implementation Ways of Educational Technologies on Higher Education

Today the system of modern higher education is away from traditional teaching methods or monotonous classes and tries to incorporate real-life activities into students’ education. It is also connected with fundamental changes in educational technologies such as informative and communicative ones, the aim of which is to educate future specialists in real situations and develop certain skills that provide significant opportunities to modernize teaching at universities. The aim of this research is to substantiate the concept of “educational technology” and methodological features of its development theoretically. To study how university lecturers work with educational technologies today to assess real opportunities to analyse basic implementation ways to incorporate educational technologies into modern higher education. On the basis of the content-analysis of the scientific literature, the notion of “educational technology” was defined and the methodological features of educational technology development at the university level were substantiated. The general implementation methods of educational technologies in higher education were analysed. The structure of the pedagogical system at a modern university and the peculiarities of educational technologies development are described. Lecturers’ readiness to incorporate the new pedagogical technologies into higher education was studied. The research was conducted via a methodological approach based on empirical and theoretical methods to achieve the aim and tasks of this research. First, the theoretical base includes scientific methods such as studying, analysis, generalization, comparing sources of data in the same category and induction or deduction. Second, the current problem was studied via an empirical method such as a questionnaire, on the basis of which, a sociological survey was formed to test initial theoretical principles of the current issues. The author concluded that the subject of “educational technologies” should be included in a university curricula.