Organizational, content, and technological updating of educational process in modern Russian higher schools in the conditions of science and education integration

Abstract

The research relevance of organizational, content and technological updating of educational process in modern Russian higher education institutions is substantiated by the increase of globalization processes in the conditions of which higher school is experiencing difficulties when it comes to the competition in the market of educational services. In this regard many higher schools are developing and realizing new trajectories of preservation and accumulation of their competitive advantages.This article is aimed to reveal regional experience of organizational, content and technological updating of educational process in Kazan Federal University as the strategic priority to enhance its competitiveness within the Program of competitiveness increase among leading world scientific and educational centers. The key idea of the research was the development of a project aimed to create a research laboratory in collaboration with the Russian Academy of Education at Kazan Federal University; the results of their joint activity are directed to the introduction of new mechanisms to update educational process in the conditions of science and education integration. The article covers the goals and issues of a higher school and research laboratory scientific interaction within the Program of competitiveness increase of higher education institutions;the results of joint development and implementation of educational process monitoring system in a higher education institution are presented; requirements to organizational,content, technological, and information-methodical support of educational process in a higher education institution are elaborated. The article provides a project on organizational, content, and technological updating of educational process in modern Russian higher schools inthe conditions of science and education integration that is of practical value for the constructive extrapolation of the presented experience in other higher education institutions; the results obtained in the course of joint activity can be used as a guideline for further organizational and pedagogical development aimed to increase the competitiveness of higher education institutions.Keywords: competitiveness of higher education institutions; educational process; integration of science and education; organizational,content, and technological updating.