INNOVATIONS IN PEDAGOGICAL ACTIVITY OF HIGHER SCHOOLS

Resumen

The article deals with the actual current task of pedagogical activity - innovations in educational
process. The article represents reviews of the research and works on the subject by other authors
and definitions of the main concepts concerning the subject, and points out the main reasons
stimulating professors and teachers of the higher schools to innovations. Having analyzed the
scientific works on the subject, the author indicated innovative features of higher school
pedagogics. The author represents the results of the research on readiness of the staff of Moscow
Aviation Institute (National Research University) to introduce innovations in practice. Factors
influencing the process of innovation such as: major advantages of innovative pedagogics from the
point of view of pedagogical staff of higher schools, readiness of the teachers to master
innovations, barriers to master innovations, awareness of the managers to accept innovations,
branchers of literature devoted to innovative pedagogical technologies and their realization were also studied.