The Development of Electronic Educational Environment of the Contemporary Higher Educational Institution

During the last years the educational reform led to a number of changes and renovations in the teaching process which introduced and confirmed the term “innovation” in the teaching practice. To enlarge the use of information and communication technologies for the development of new forms and methods of teaching, distance learning, and media education.

To provide an innovative character of basic education, including the renovations in the network structure of educational institutions in accordance with the tasks of innovative development. According to studies the innovative processes in the educational environment are observed in three directions: social and economic, organizational and management, psychological and educational. They touch upon the methods of managing the educational institutions, elaboration and implementation of new educational technologies, creation of innovative schools, etc. Teaching innovations include innovations connected with renovation and change of technology, methodology, and content of education.

A teaching innovation is understood as a teaching novelty, purposeful progressive change introducing new points into the educational environment which improve features of separate parts, components, as well as educational environment as a whole – ideas, processes, means, methods, forms, technologies, informative programs, etc.

According to studies teaching innovations are divided into three types: radical (change of the educational process or its component), combined (combination of existing forms, means, and methods and their transformation into a new technology), modifying (perfection of educational technologies without their substantial change).

Introduction of innovations into education is carried out by organizational and technical means aimed at providing the most efficient achievement of results into teaching activities. Recently because of intensive development of elearning there has been a necessity to develop a system which includes tools of its implementation, including technical and learning and teaching tools. The electronic educational environment (EE) of the educational institution may serve as an example of such system as a combination of tool ware and resources providing conditions to implement the educational activity on the basis of information and communication technologies. EE of the higher educational institution, which is a system-based organized structure of information and communication, learning and teaching, soft and hardware tools, is becoming not just a supplement to forms of organizing educational process.