Кейс-технология как метод интерактивного практико-ориентированного обучения (на примере программы дополнительного профессионального образования «Основы библиометрии»)

Improving education process through efficient technologies to build essential job competences and increasing effectiveness of professionals is the relevant issue within the system of continuing professional education. The efficiency of the continuing professional education program depends on the student’s efforts as well on the methods to build new professional knowledge and skills. The case technology is one of the practice-oriented methods; it assumes that knowledge and skills building is a result of the proactive independent efforts aimed at conflict resolution, which results in acquiring professional knowledge and skills creatively and developing mental functions. The authors examine the case technology as a method of interactive practice-oriented education. The program “The Introduction into Bibliometrics” is the innovative one as it is integrated into the big-scale academic project. The methods and stages of case development in the area: “The publication ethics. Predatory journals” (4 stages) are described. The case application features are characterized. The authors conclude that the case method influences positively on students testing results within the array of the tests passed within the framework of the continuing professional education program.