- to know the aim, peculiarity of the educational process in higher education; trends, tendentions of higher education system development in Ukraine and foreign countries;
- to know structure, psychological and pedagogical aspects of the organization of students' educational and cognitive activity; criteria of selection, principles for structuring the content of the training course in higher education; modern methods and forms of student education;
•to know the methods of scientific and pedagogical research.
•to be able to formulate the educational goal, to structure the content of lectures, practical seminars, laboratory classes; be able to promote the development of interest, personal attitude of students to the content of the training course;
- to be able to create a educational program from the course; apply methods, techniques of organization of educational and cognitive activity of students (interactive methods, brainstorming, story-role play, group work, etc.); to plan the structure, content, process of organizing a lecture, practical, seminar, laboratory classes; organize, self-regulation, non-verbal behavior in the process of communication with students;
- to resolve pedagogical conflicts in various situations;

Prerequisites:
• Philosophy and methodology of science

• Professional pedagogy
co-requisites
• Psychology of creativity and invention

Higher Education Pedagogy: Common Foundations and Innovation Processes. Modern higher education. Global processes and problems of competitiveness of university graduates. Features of transformation of the world higher education system. Methodological foundations of higher education pedagogy. Educational environment of higher education institution. Didactics of high school. Educational process in higher education. The main forms of education in high school. Traditional and innovative teaching methods and tools in higher education. Content and diagnosis of learning outcomes. The essence and theoretical foundations of higher education. Management basics in high school. Specificity of professional and pedagogical activity of the teacher of higher school

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- written registration of a workbook with test and didactic tasks, conducting of scientific and pedagogical research, drawing up of plans-synopsis of a lecture, seminar, laboratory employment of class -40 points;
- final control - 60 points (control measure, credit): written-oral form.