Innovation of Education and Educational Innovations in Conditions of Modern Higher Education Institution

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The article describes the different approaches to the interpretation of educational innovations and innovations in education. The modern labor market requires graduates ability to operate such technologies and knowledge that meet the needs of the information society, prepare young people for new roles in this society. It is necessary to distinguish between the concepts “educational innovations” and “innovations in education”. Innovation in education is a broader concept than educational innovation. They include educational, scientific and technological, infrastructural, economic, social, legal, administrative and other innovations. Educational innovations are understood as a procedure or method of educational activity that differs significantly from established practice and is used to increase the level of efficiency in a competitive environment. Educational innovations include pedagogical innovation, scientific and methodological innovation, educational and technological innovation. It is substantiated that the education market is one of the most important elements of the national innovation system. Higher education institutions that have chosen an innovation-based development, become competitive leaders on the education market. The formation of new forms of education and the use of perfect controlling mechanisms at each educational institution will give the opportunity to create single educational space, which is able to meet the needs of society in quality education with specific opportunities of customers in the educational market. The main components of the innovation development of higher education institutions are determined.

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Innovation of Education and Educational Innovations in Conditions of Modern Higher Education… 9
UDC 37.034.
doi: 10.15330/jpnu.5.1.9-16
INNOVATION OF EDUCATION AND EDUCATIONAL
INNOVATIONS IN CONDITIONS OF MODERN HIGHER
EDUCATION INSTITUTION
HALYNA MYKHAILYSHYN, OKSANA KONDUR, LESIA SERMAN
Abstract. The article describes the different approaches to the interpretation of educational
innovations and innovations in education. The modern labor market requires graduates ability to
operate such technologies and knowledge that meet the needs of the information society, prepare
young people for new roles in this society.
It is necessary to distinguish between the concepts “educational innovations” and “innovations
in education”. Innovation in education is a broader concept than educational innovation. They
include educational, scientific and technological, infrastructural, economic, social, legal,
administrative and other innovations. Educational innovations are understood as a procedure or
method of educational activity that differs significantly from established practice and is used to
increase the level of efficiency in a competitive environment. Educational innovations include
pedagogical innovation, scientific and methodological innovation, educational and technological
innovation. It is substantiated that the education market is one of the most important elements of
the national innovation system. Higher education institutions that have chosen an innovation-
based development, become competitive leaders on the education market. The formation of new
forms of education and the use of perfect controlling mechanisms at each educational institution
will give the opportunity to create single educational space, which is able to meet the needs of
society in quality education with specific opportunities of customers in the educational market.
The main components of the innovation development of higher education institutions are
determined.
Keywords: innovations, education, higher education institutions, innovation development,
education market.
1. INTRODUCTION
In all spheres of human life and society general civilizational trends of development, typical for the
XXI century, strengthen themselves increasingly. First of all, this is a trend of convergence of nations,
people, states through the creation of common economic, information space, and considering the
demands of the globalized world, European educational space. The second trend is a shift of humanity
from industrial to scientific and informative technology and the formation of a knowledge society, that
advances education and research (areas that ensure the development of human and society) as major
priority [7, p. 22], that particularly updates the problems of innovation in education area.
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Limits of growth of modern civilization are determined by education, its quality and accessibility.
In conditions of growing dynamics of social and economic transformation practice requires the
working out of the new forms for educational and social adaptation, optimization of the interests of the
state and the individuality in the society of knowledge that appears daily. Global processes became the
subject of studying various, especially social sciences. After all, globalization transforms the relations
within a society and among countries, causing the formation of a single market space.
The global economic crisis in a globalized society and social and economic relations led to a
reorientation of main values and search of the model for economic development by the countries of the
European Union that would ensure national competitiveness and direct the national economy of each
country to long-term growth. It has become a model of innovation. The European choice of Ukraine has
also caused the necessity for the formation and implementation of this model, which should ensure
high and stable economic growth, solve social and environmental problems, provide competitiveness
of the national economy, increase export potential of the country, to ensure her economic safety and a
leading place in the European Union.
The desire to look in the future, predicts and influences it, is imminent to human nature. The real
mechanism to influence our future is a distinct sphere of human culture, education. Exceptionally it is
able not only to see, but also to define the future in all fields of society - from the competitive economy
to a basic and applied science nowadays.
The leading principle of the state policy in the sphere of higher education in Ukraine is the principle
of state support for educational, scientific, technological and innovation activities of higher education
institutions (HEIs) [13]. Innovative processes in the system of education provide variation and
personality oriented trend of the educational process, so that the knowledge, skills and abilities of
students are transformed into a means of developing their cognitive and personal qualities, competence
to ensure their ability to be the subject of innovative professional activities.
The purpose of the study is to analyze different approaches to the interpretation of educational
innovations and innovations in education, and argumentation of actuality of innovation development
in higher education institution.
2. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
The development of informative and innovative technologies advanced science and education as a
priority and necessary precondition for the evolution of post-industrial society, in which the system of
educational services must transmit competence and everyday knowledge to future professionals.
According to Ukrainian scientists V. Heits, V. Semynozhenko, B. Kvasniyk source of growth in
economy knowledge is both specialized (scientific) and everyday knowledge, resulting in common
with natural resources, capital and work the processes of accumulation and use of knowledge become a
dominant factor, that cause the growing competitiveness of the economy [3, p.31]. Knowledge is
transforming into essentially incomplete technologies of forming the future actually closing on itself
both an economic and social system of post-industrial society.
Education and science are deeply integrated into the economy, social life, and their level
significantly affects the quality of life and the possibility of constant development both a separate
country in particular and the international community in general. Therefore, science and skilled staff
are recognized in Europe to be the decisive factor in achieving the goals of internationalization of the
educational process: to make European education more competitive, dynamic, and able to ensure
sustainable growth, employment of the population and social cohesion.
The modern labor market requires graduates ability to operate such technologies and knowledge
that meet the needs of the information society, prepare young people for new roles in this society.
As V. Andrushchenko says “today not only the ability to operate one’s own knowledge is
important, but also to be prepared to change and adapt to the new needs of the labor market, operate
and manage information, act quickly, make decisions, learn lifelong” [1, p. 8]. Market conditions
determine the development path of high school; become a catalyst for the transformation of the

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traditional system of education provision. The main task of higher education system is to ensure the
continuous training of human resources for profitable use in constantly changeable conditions of
formation global market space.
Effectiveness of the education system depends on a number of internal factors; they are resource
base, human resources, forms of operation. At that the adequacy of the education system with the
requirements of the national economy, the population in general and individuals play an important
role. This need not only updates the quantitative growth of the sphere, but also qualitative shift
towards innovative component of education. Thus, one could confirm that the education market is one
of the most important elements of the national innovation system.
At present, inefficiency, quantitative and qualitative deformation is inherent to higher education in
Ukraine that adversely affects the qualification of citizens; reduces the global competitiveness of our
country.
Competition as one of the elements of any market environment improves the quality of specialists
training, as it forces HEIs to provide qualified professional standards for employees. Market of
educational services through competitive mechanisms literally promotes participation in innovation
processes. Competition based on innovation, their quality and timeliness are an
important characteristic of HEIs survival, serves as a crucial factor of the development and
implementation for new scientific products. Higher education institutions that have chosen an
innovation-based development, become competitive leaders on the education market. Since only
innovative HEIs are able to adapt to change quickly, innovation is becoming a major factor in their
competitiveness in the market [5].
Thus, the modern market of educational services in the Ukrainian higher education recently has not
turned into a full-fledged economy sector yet, able to produce competitive human capital. However,
the formation of new forms of education and the use of perfect controlling mechanisms at each
educational institution will give the opportunity to create single educational space, which is able to
meet the needs of society in quality education with specific opportunities of customers in the
educational market. Today in the domestic science there is no single approach to the grounding
necessity of innovative development in the activities of the HEI and the definition of the concept of
such development. Some scientists consider innovation in three aspects: as the science and art of
innovation management; as an activity; as the subject of management.
V. Pirus considers innovation to be a new idea or invention that arises and has future that promotes
progressive and creative development. Innovation is a source, motivation for development and self-
development [8]. The scientist defines innovative development of the HEI, as an objective, purposeful,
irreversible process that expands through time, the transition of HEI from one qualitative state to
another, accompanied by internal creative changes. L. Chmelevska, S. Kuzmina, O. Muzychenko note
that innovation may be examined as a combination of industrial and intellectual resources, which
contributes to the creation of new products and services, uses advanced production methods, source
materials and technologies [4, p. 103]. In V. Verbytskyi’s opinion, management innovation is the
modern economic, psychological, diagnostic, information technologies, which allow to create
appropriate conditions for the rapid and effective management decision.
The main innovation areas of management activity enlisted by the scientist are: conceptuality in the
institution management; purpose-oriented approach to management; psychological support and
humanization of management; modeling the management structure, creating high-speed technologies
and mechanisms of management activities; mobile structure of horizontal relationships; bringing
management functions in accordance with the tasks of the educational institution; reflexivity of the
manager’s activity; management of education quality and development of new approaches to
determine the effectiveness of educational process; computerization, technologizing of management;
adaptation of achievement in science of management in social and industrial areas to the management
of educational institutions [12]. Components of innovative development of HEI are shown in Fig. 1.

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Fig. 1. Components of innovative development of HEI.
In the research of innovative development of HEI V. Safonova’s scientific approach should be
mentioned. She considers educational activities to be innovational, which is the product of conscious
creative work and based on the principle of individualization of initiative in its manifestation
[9, p. 233].
Scientists distinguish four main aspects in content-related concept “innovation in education”:
1) the process of implementing a new alternative learning strategy to the traditional one, which is
creative (productive), not only of reproductive direction;
2) orientation on the realization of person potential in general;
3) mutual action in the process of intuitive creative thinking;
4) promotion of actualization of all forms of intellectual activity under the condition of leading role
of productive creative thinking with regard to unproductive, formal and logic [11].
Regarding higher education we should distinguish between the concepts of “educational
innovation” and “innovation in education”.
Innovation in education is a broader concept than educational innovation. They include
educational, scientific and technological, infrastructural, economic, social, legal, administrative and
other innovations.
Scientific and technological innovations are the result of research and development in the shape of
intellectual property and are transferred for implementation and application in production.
Social innovations include social support for students and university teachers, creating safe
conditions for study as well as extracurricular activities of students, formation of socially responsible
HEI.
By law, innovations researchers mean the transition to the new organizational and legal form,
which is an autonomous educational institution and initiative activities of HEI of working out
proposals concerning improvement of education legislation [10, p. 81].
Educational innovations are any purpose-oriented activity, organizational solutions, system,
process or method of implementation of educational activities that significantly differ from the
established practice and are first used in the institution and are aimed at improving the efficiency of
functioning and the development of organization in a competitive environment.
Educational innovations include:
Innovative
development of HEIs
Staff
development
Development of
educational process
Development
of scientific and research
work
Social
development
Technical and
technological
development
Development
of international
cooperation
Economic
development
Organizational
development

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 pedagogical innovation: the change of style in teaching and the organization of the educational
process; introduction of innovative models of education that turn the education character into its
essence and instrumentally important characteristics as the purpose-oriented organization; nature of
the interaction of the teacher with the students and their position in the learning process; effective
organization of educational process, particularly using modern information and communication
technologies, etc.;
 scientific and methodological innovation: updating the content of educational programs in
accordance with the best domestic and foreign counterparts; introducing of innovative courses; creating
of modern content of teaching materials (new textbooks, program, scientific and methodological
support);
 education and technological innovation: use of new or improved learning technologies (such as
distance education or online learning, Internet technology, project organized technology, etc.);
providing students and teachers with access to electronic libraries; creating ACS of educational process
and university information system.
The main factors of innovation in internal environment of universities include:
 educational innovations: the content of the curriculum; new teaching technologies; high
professionalism of teaching staff; organizational and methodological support of educational process;
 administrative (managerial) innovation: support for innovative university structure; general
management system and its properties; management system at the level of structural subdivisions
(faculties, departments); system of provision with educational services quality;
 ideological innovation: university participating in the programs, competitions and other events
held with the participation of government institution and Ministry of Education of Ukraine;
 availability of state order for specialist training from line ministries; the presence of mechanisms
of interaction between universities and the labor market.
Most of the educational innovations are stimulated by consumers of educational services. Some of
them belong to the innovation oriented to meet existing needs: to harmonize educational and
professional standards, to involve representatives of professional societies to develop educational
programs of universities; to develop innovative educational programs by new directions and
specialties; practitioners’ participation in the educational process and common research [2].
Some innovations are aimed at creating and satisfying of new needs. In the postindustrial society
the classic lectures and seminars are replaced by modern project, discussion, search formats with a high
degree of independence and activity of students and new cognitive institutions: research networks,
virtual laboratories which in a flexible way will organize the resources of various institutions
(universities, research institutions, industrial laboratories, etc.) for the implementation of breakthrough
projects in science and technology.
Educational innovations are the essence of innovative education. Scientists consider its purpose in
creating an optimal and sustainable educational and organizational, scientific and methodological and
regulatory and administrative environment that provides support of innovative approaches to the
educational process, which are focused on the integration of scientific and educational potential of
universities and sectorial science and partnerships with employers.
Such understanding of innovative development enables institutions to implement new approaches
to the choice of strategic objectives, based not only on their own interests, but first of all the interests of
consumers of innovative education system products: society, state, employees, students and others.
According to philosophers and sociologists’ opinion, innovation education is a purposeful process
of education and person innovative study; it should facilitate the development of his creative skills,
self-learning skills, that is to form his intellectual capital. Characteristic of innovative educational
models is shown in Fig. 2.

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Fig. 2. Characteristic of innovative educational models.
Important tasks that provide innovative direction of HEI are:
 scale computerization and activation of scientific and technological activities of higher
education institutions, creating innovative structures in their system; reforming of the education system
to meet the requirements of European standards and the preservation of national cultural and
intellectual traditions;
 increasing the effectiveness of university sector in research and working out in order to
strengthen its role in providing innovative development of the national economy;
 concentration of resources in priority areas of science and technology development and
innovation activity; stimulating lifelong learning, education of culture of innovative thinking.
3. CONCLUSIONS
So, summing up the reviewed scientific approaches, the main components of an innovative HEI can
be outlined. In our view, they are:
 introduction of innovative technologies in educational process [6];
 student-centered educational process;
Combining of different types of
student activities: educational,
scientific, practical. Ensuring close
to real conditions
Maximizing the student’s
practical training
Context
The use of games and imitation in
learning
Maximizing the part of
active teaching methods
Imitation
Structuring the content of
educational material to maximize
its mastering, with the presence of
exercises for control
The organization of
educational process in the
plainest form for the student
Modular
Initiation of student’s independent
search knowledge through
problematisation of learning
material
The changing nature of the
learning process from
reproductive into
productive and creative
ones
Problem
Differentiated tasks for students of
different abilities
Attention on the fixing of
study results
Acquisition of
knowledge
Free access to educational
resources, minimizing the role of a
teacher and an increase in self-
learning for students
The use of modern
information and
communication
technologies
Distant
Peculiarities of the models
Characteristic of the
models
Innovative educational
models

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 improving the system of organization and management of higher education institution;
 increasing of qualification of stuff potential of higher education;
 development of own research capacity, implementation of scientific research and production of
scientific and innovative products;
 formation of the appropriate economic mechanism that will make it possible to obtain
additional financial resources and use their savings;
 conducting marketing work to expand the education market and meet the needs of consumers.
Technology transfer, close cooperation with the business sector, implementation of research results
into production and the vital activity of society is prerequisite for successful innovational HEI.
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Address: Halyna Mykhailyshyn, Oksana Kondur, Lesia Serman, Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National
University, 57, Shevchenko Str., Ivano-Frankivsk, 76018, Ukraine.
E-mail: galmuh60@gmail.com, oxikon13@gmail.com.
Received: 14.11.2017; revised: 12.03.2018.

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Михайлишин Галина, Кондур Оксана, Серман Леся. Інновації в освіті та освітні інновації в умовах
сучасного вищого навчального закладу. Журнал Прикарпатського університету імені Василя Стефаника,
5 (1) (2018), 9–16.
У статті описано різні підходи до трактування освітніх інновацій та інновацій в освіті.
Сучасний ринок праці вимагає від випускників закладів вищої освіти вміння оперувати такими
технологіями та знаннями, які задовольняють потреби інформаційного суспільства, готують молодь
до нових ролей у ньому.
Акцентовано на необхідності диференціації понять “освітні інновації” та “інновації в освіті”.
Автори стверджують, що “інновації в освіті” є більш широким поняттям, ніж “освітні інновації”. Вони
охоплюють освітні, науково-технологічні, інфраструктурні, економічні, соціальні, юридичні,
управлінські та інші інновації. З’ясовано, що під освітніми інноваціями розуміють процедуру чи
метод здійснення освітньої діяльності, які суттєво відрізняються від усталеної практики та спрямовані
на підвищення рівня ефективності функціонування в умовах конкуренції. Освітні інновації
охоплюють: педагогічні інновації, науково-методичні інновації, освітньо-технологічні інновації.
Обґрунтовано, що ринок освітніх послуг є одним з найважливіших елементів національної
інноваційної системи. Доведено, що заклади вищої освіти, які обрали інноваційний шлях розвитку,
стають простором, який здатен задовольнити потреби суспільства у високоякісній освіті з
урахуванням конкретних можливостей споживачів на ринку освітніх послуг. Визначено основні
складові інноваційного розвитку закладів вищої освіти.
Ключові слова: інновації, освіта, заклад вищої освіти, інноваційний розвиток, ринок освітніх
послуг.