Abstract:

Implementation of active learning procedures, encouragement of innovative forms and means of training organization based on interactive technologies are among the priorities of educational process at Tomsk Polytechnic University.

The following principal problems are to be solved in the course of training at this University:
- educating and developing a socially adaptable, active personality ready for efficient professional activity,
- preparing students for competing and emulating interaction with people around them, and development of their ability to contest while searching for the true;
- creating conditions in the process of training to encourage such psychological phenomenon as contagion, when a thought expressed by the colleague can be the cause of your own thought, analogue or opposite ones.

The authors of the paper address to interactive training as a special form to organize cognitive activity, able to provide students with convenient training conditions. The students feel their intellectual competence; both students and teacher are involved in the process of cognition. The process of mastering the educational material is based on modeling real-life or professional situations, using the role plays, solutions of training or professional problems via dialogues. This cognitive activity provides students with the environment, encouraging development of their independent cognitive skills. All the components of cognitive skills like interaction, interdependence and structural unity are the integral parts of the cognitive activity.

Keywords:

Interactive technology, training, active methods, cognition, practice-oriented knowledge, cognitive independence, Case-Study Method, Case-Incident Method.