STUDENT-CENTERED APPROACH AS A NEW PARADIGM IN OF THE QUALITY OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

Abstract

The article deals with the peculiarities of the organization of the educational process in higher education institutions on the grounds of the student-centered approach. Quality of the education process depends on the content, organizational forms, teaching methods and techniques, educational and methodological, material and technical toolkit, and mostly the productive cooperation of all its participants. Well-organized by the teacher subject-subject cooperation based on the student-centered approach with the use of interactive teaching methods contributed to improving the quality of education. Applying the student-centered approach in the educational process, the focus is shifted from teaching to studying when the student becomes a key figure, is a full-fledged subject of the educational cooperation, and takes an active part in the activity of a higher education institution. The peculiarities of the qualitative educational process based on the student-centered approach include: declaring the student to be a key figure of the educational space of a higher education institution and a main customer of qualitative educational services; increasing the level of activeness, motivation, professional focus of students; diversification of the teacher’s educational functions, changing their roles in the educational process; coherence and relationship between learning and teaching; use of digital technologies and interactive teaching methods; systematic monitoring of the quality of the educational process. The student-centered educational process becomes a significant factor of ensuring the quality of education in the context of providing qualitative educational service. When the students realize the responsibility for their learning; create their own educational trajectory aimed at getting the desired result; understand the value of education for their further professional growth and development, the orientation on the constructive dialogue and productive cooperation with the teachers creates a new paradigm of the quality of the educational process as cooperated of interested parties.

Key words: student-centered approach, student-centered learning, educational process, quality of education.