INNOVATIONS AS SYNERGETIC EFFECT IN SOCIO - PEDAGOGICAL SYSTEM OF DISTANCE EDUCATION
Olga Tolstova, dotsent
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to study distance education through the innovations in its interaction and interrelation with such innovative processes, as modernization, integration and humanization, taking place in education. A synergetic approach is a leading methodological approach in our research. This article also considers socio-pedagogical approach which allowed the author to define the interrelations of integration, modernization and humanization and to reveal their influence not only on the internal components (elements) of distance education as a holistic system, but also to define the possibilities of distance education in the implementation of innovative processes. As a result the study showed that «innovation» is a priority idea, on the basis of which the integration processes, education modernization and a humanistic approach to education are functioning and are being combined in the educational space. Innovations come out as display of the synergetic effect in the socio-pedagogical system of distance education. Distance education founded on the modern information and communications technologies application in the educational institutions ensures the cohesion of the educational system to the demands of the XXI century and will permit to raise the quality of education and reach the correspondence of education to the perspective requirements of personality, society and state development.