ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF INNOVATIVE EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS

Abstract

The article describes a detailed analysis of the topic of innovative educational projects. The study is prepared on the basis of theoretical works on relevant topics and the empirical experience of the scientific school of the Department of Technology and Technical Creativity of Lipetsk State Pedagogical University named after P.P. Semenov-Tyan-Shansky – “Theory and practice of creative and cognitive activity of students”. Various views of scientists on the development and implementation of innovative educational projects in the education system are presented. The role of innovative educational projects in the development of the state is being considered. Two aspects of innovative educational projects are identified and described: technological and social, which primary affect organizational issues of constructing the pedagogical process and the content of education. The authors’ position is presented in specifying the essential characteristics of innovative educational projects: novelty, response to the challenges of the time, dependence of the effective- ness of the project on the speed of its implementation, the subjectivity of the novelty of the social aspect, the dominant technological aspect, the transformation of an innovative project into a classic, traditional one. The presented results are intended, fist of all, for heads of educational organizations of different forms and levels of education and innovative teachers seeking to use advanced technologies in their work.