Experience of introduction of innovative methods of training of bachelors and masters in the field of information technologies

Abstract

Paper is devoted to methods of training of IT-specialists in the conditions of the accelerated information technology development. The purpose of this work is statement of the innovative method of training of bachelors and masters in the field of information technologies providing their training with participation of specialists of the IT-companies. In the conditions of creation of information society one of the main tasks, facing educational institutions is to provide organizations and enterprises with the young specialists, having skills of creation of modern software products with the use of the latest tools of information technologies. It is possible to carry out an objective by development and deployment of new methods of training of bachelors and masters in the field of information technologies. In the paper the experience of training of IT-specialists is considered in the Institute of New Information Technologies of Kyrgyz State University of Construction, Transport and Architecture named after N.Isanov, the analysis of problems of training of IT-specialists in Kyrgyzstan is provided and also the innovative method of training of IT-specialists is given. From the moment of the foundation in 2000 the Institute applies various methods of training, closely cooperates with other higher education institutions and the enterprises-employers. To study the influence of various forms of education on the quality of training specialists in the Institute, in addition to full-time and correspondence courses, distance forms are also used. Moreover, the educational process is implemented both independently developed by the specialists of the Institute of Technology and joint technologies with foreign partner-universities, among which there are Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics and also the University of Applied Sciences (Zwickau, Germany). For the purpose of introduction of the advanced foreign innovative methods of training the Institute signed agreements on joint training of specialists with the University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis (France) and with the leading Vellore Institute of Technology (India). Having carried out the analysis of experience of cooperation with the enterprises and partner-universities, specialists of Institute have come to a conclusion about the need of development of the innovative method of training of bachelors and masters in which the academic knowledge, gained by students in higher education institution and the practical skills, acquired by them in the IT-companies would be combined. The essence of new approach is that students have an opportunity not only to gain skills of programming as it is provided by programs of practice at traditional methods of training, but also to take courses of perspective technologies of programming with the leading programmers and to participate together with them in devel- opment of real projects of industrial scale. According to this concept together with the International University of Innovative Technologies in Bishkek city and the Kyrgyz Association of Software Developers and Services the Agreement was signed, according to which the leading programmers of Association will train in the joint developed program final year of training of the bachelors and masters of these higher education institutions, passed on a competition. The students, who successfully completed the training, will be given the State Diploma of Higher Education and the Certificate of the Association. Thus, for training of high-class IT-specialists it is offered to use the innovative method, providing a combination of traditional methods of training in higher education institution with training at the enterprises-employers with involvement of the leading programmers of the IT-companies.