INNOVATIVE EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES IN HIGHER SCHOOL TEACHING AND LEARNING

At the contemporary stage of higher education system's development in Ukraine, plenty of ideas in education drift along, find purchase with the right crowd, and as long as they present a more engaging method of learning than traditional schooling, are hailed as innovative. This is a fallacy that stands directly in the way of true innovation in edtech. And another sad fact is that educational products are judged against criteria that are much harder to pin down, so they can often get away with just being different. Teaching practice however shows efficient ed-techs that augment our natural ability to learn and improve students' results. Nowadays blended learning, instructional Internet resources, BYOD (bring your own device) policies etc. are being implemented into the process of the prospective specialists' professionally oriented competence development. These trends are significantly affecting higher education and show the need for technology that improves the quality of teaching via digital and online media. From short-term to long-term, in more and more Ukrainian higher educational establishments a number of different technologies, students will benefit from, are put into practice. And the aim of the given paper is to explore them and highlight all the benefits. Institutions implement different ed-tech, but the purpose is to open up the world as one big global arena. That is why it is of a crucial importance to define the impact of technology on learning process and on quality of higher education in general. In order to find out the efficiency of innovative technologies in educational process, the pilot training was held, the results of which are depicted in the article. As a result, the implementation of instructional internet resources proved its paramount efficiency and flexibility for both teaching and learning.