“Pedagogy and psychology of higher education” - course 2800 rubles. from MSU, training 15 weeks. (4 months), Date: December 7, 2023.

Section 1. Regulatory and legal framework of higher education in Russia

Topic 1. History of higher professional education in Russia

Development of higher education in Russia. The first universities and areas of student training. Moscow State University (founded 1755) – formation and development. St. Petersburg University. Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University (founded 1804). Education of women in Russia. The first non-state universities. The second half of the twentieth century is a change from the technocratic paradigm in education to a humanistic one. The emergence of new directions in higher professional education.

Topic 2. Regulatory documents regulating higher education in the Russian Federation
Educational management in the twentieth century in our country: government bodies and basic regulatory documents. Federal State Educational Standards (FSES) of higher professional education of three generations (mid-1990s, 2000, 2010): specifics and differences. Characteristics of the Federal State Educational Standards of third generation higher education (2009-2010), Federal State Educational Standards 3+ and Federal State Educational Standards 3++.

Section 2. Psychological foundations of higher education

Topic 3. Activity and cognitive processes
Characteristics, motives and subject of activity.
General information about cognitive processes: sensation, perception, attention, memory, thinking. Peculiarities of perception. Types and properties of attention. Characteristics of types of memory. Factors influencing information retention. Principles of successful memorization. Characteristics of thinking as a cognitive process. Operations of thinking: analysis, synthesis, generalization, abstraction, concretization, classification, systematization. Forms and properties of thinking.
Contribution of Vygodsky L.S., Leontyev A.N., Davydov V.V., Galperin P.Ya. and Elkonina D.B. into activity theory and the study of cognitive processes.

Topic 4. Psychology of Personality
Personality – individual – individuality. Personality in psychology, philosophy, ethics, law, medicine. Approaches to understanding personality: psychodynamic, humanistic, behavioral. Analysis of the concept “temperament”. The problem of assessing and measuring temperament.. The connection between temperament and human activity. Definition of the concept of character. The connection of character traits with the volitional and emotional spheres, and human intelligence. The problem of character correction.

Topic 5. Motivation and learning process
Motivation as the motivating basis of human mental life. Motivation is external and internal. Motive, its task and functions. Basic characteristics of needs. Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Mistakes in understanding Abraham Maslow's theory. Optimum motivation (Yerkes-Dodson laws).
Psychology of labor and management. Stanford marshmallow experiment (1960-1970). Theories of motivation: individual psychology (Alfred Adler), humanistic psychoanalysis (Erich Fromm), field theory (Kurt Lewin), theory cognitive dissonance (Leon Festinger), equity theory (John Stacy Adams), learned helplessness theory (Martin Seligman) and etc.

Section 3. Pedagogical foundations of higher education

Topic 6. Didactics of higher education: patterns, principles, goals and content of education
Object and subject of pedagogy. The relationship between pedagogical science and practice. Pedagogy in the system of human sciences. John Amos Comenius (1592 – 1670) and his work “The Great Didactics, the Universal Art of Teaching Everyone and Everything” (1657). Didactics is the science of teaching and education, their goals, content, methods, means and organizational forms. Categories of pedagogy: teaching, upbringing, education, pedagogical activity, pedagogical system, pedagogical process. General patterns of the pedagogical process. Principles of teaching (scientific, visual, accessible, systematic, etc.).
The concept of “content of vocational education”. Structure and modularity of bachelor's and master's programs. Formation of general cultural, general professional and professional competencies among students.

Topic 7. Methods and means of teaching at the university
Forms of organization of training: formal and informal (additional), individual, group, mutual training, differentiated training according to student abilities, team training. Traditional forms of education at a university: lecture, seminar, practical work. Classification of teaching methods according to the source of knowledge - visual, practical, verbal, working with a book and video method. Characteristics, essence and content of teaching methods. Selection of methods.
Teaching aids as carriers of educational information and tools for the activities of teachers and students. Means of communication: speech and non-speech. Teacher's speech culture.

Section 4. Forms and methods of organizing the educational process in higher education

Topic 8. Preparation of lectures and seminars in higher education
Lecture as a form of educational process. Requirements for the lecture, functions of the lecture. Types of lectures. Lecture structure. Preparation for a lecture, features of giving a lecture. Criteria for assessing the quality of a lecture. Seminar as a form of educational process. Objectives and opportunities of the seminar. Types of seminars: discussion, conference, conversation, brainstorming, round table, business and role-playing games, etc. Techniques for activating students' work in seminar classes. Preparing the teacher for the seminar. Criteria for evaluating a seminar session.

Topic 9. Knowledge control in higher education
Functions of pedagogical control: diagnostic, teaching, educational. Forms of implementation of current, intermediate and final control of students' knowledge. Rules for developing test tasks (open and closed types, to establish compliance, etc.). Criteria for evaluating an oral response, an abstract, and performing practical work. Innovative assessment tools: modular rating system, standardized test with a creative task, case method, portfolio, business game.

Topic 10. Organization of independent work of students
Independent work tasks. Types of independent work of students: classroom and extracurricular work. Independent work at the lecture: basic notes, solving educational problems, fragments of lectures. Forms of extracurricular independent work of students. Conditions for effective independent work. Levels of independent work of students: reproductive, reconstructive, creative. Independent work of students under the supervision of a teacher. Rules for the rational organization of mental work.

Section 5. Modern pedagogical technologies

Topic 11. Modular and problem-based learning technologies
Pedagogical design and its objects: pedagogical systems, pedagogical process and pedagogical situations. Educational technologies. Requirements for modern pedagogical technologies. Classification of educational technologies - learning: problem-based, programmed, developmental, project-based, modular, interactive (active methods), electronic. The concept of “training module”. Purpose and principles of modular training. Competence-based approach. Features of the formation of competencies.
Basic functions and characteristics of problem-based learning. Types and levels of problem-based learning. Organization of problem-based learning. Case method technology. Structure and principles of case construction. Features of the implementation of the case stage in a group.

Topic 12. Active learning and e-learning
Active learning methods (AMT): discussion, games, training. Game as a learning tool. Educational games (role-playing, simulation, business and organizational-activity), technological structure of a business game: preparation, conduct and analysis of the results of the game. Game construction.
Distance technologies and e-learning. History of the development of remote technologies. Problems of distance education. Coursera is an educational platform for online courses for everyone. Principles of learning. Program sections. Russian universities and their programs on the website www.coursera.org. National platform "Open Education" (operating since September 2015) based on the EDX platform. Principles of training and programs.