Dobryakov

pp. 374-394

The core of the mental-structured approach to the preparation of technical specialists is consideration of the human mental activity regularity. Educational technology created with this approach makes possible not only obtaining the essential knowledge within a specific technical field but purposefully create the fundamental components of mental competence in technics. Understanding of thinking and memory patterns are amongst these components as well as the latent capability of the intuitive sense as part of the intellectual potential of the future specialist. Unlike the traditional method of teaching such educational technology should incorporate the particular educational events targeting development of these capabilities. Particular technical problem was adapted for this purpose to illustrate the approach.

pp. 221-231

For solving a task of socialization of higher technical education at higher methodological and functional levels, the harmonization of educational standards by introducing interdisciplinary courses into the training process was proposed; such courses are associated with providing creative forms of professional activity. Logical structure of such courses includes studying the culture of professional way of thinking or the basis of intellectual competence by examples from scientific-technical knowledge domains.  These features make it possible to use proposed courses not only for task-oriented trainings and forming the required set of professionally significant personal skills but for developing a wide spectrum of key transferable competences.

The authors consider the problem of integral estimation of multi-criterion alternatives; they propose a formal statement of the problem and methods of solving it. The method transforms the problem into global conditional multidimensional optimization. To solve that problem Mind Evolutionary Computation algorithm is used. Implementation of this method is described. The results of efficiency research are given.

The paper examines approaches to assessing the economic efficiency of the new mental-structured educational technology, which is based on the idea that the content of education, need to "adapt" to the psychophysical abilities of students in accordance with the laws of the objectively existing functional systems of the brain. From an economic point of view is assessed in basic contradiction between higher professional education exponentially growing amount of new information and strictly regulated terms of learning how to optimize the objective function to evaluate the effectiveness of new technology. It is shown that implicit in the heart of the new educational technology computer-aided opportunity to obtain quantitative indicators of the quality of training can help achieve the strategic objectives of the educational institution.

This article describes the special mentality and a structured approach to the preparation of technical specialists, based on the patterns of memory and thinking. It is shown that foreign word "competence" in some cases it is advisable to replace a wider methodological and meaningful sense the concept of "thought-literacy." To this end, proposes a methodology for assessment of key competencies (thinking of literacy), known as the "House of Quality."

 This article describes an innovative mental-structured educational technology focused on training technical specialists, built on the basis of human memory and thinking laws.  This training provides technical specialists’ high competitiveness in rapidly changing market requirements for educational services and intellectual work. There are five basic principles of mental-structured educational technology.