An environmental approach to developing and applying smart complexes of academic disciplines in professional training of future specialists

The paper discloses modern approaches to creating integrated informationenvironments of SMART complexes of academic disciplines through integrating creative,authorial, non-verbal, encyclopaedic, information-and-communication, self-realization,self-assessment components in professional (vocational) and pre-university professionaleducation. It lists the advantages of such complexes compared to e-textbooks and revealsthe requirements for developing them. It highlights the ways of considering futurespecialists’ psycho-physiological development when selecting and structuring educationalinformation. It recommends applying constructive equalization of students’ cognitiveactivity based on the Kosko’s quasi-neural network model in their designing aneducational trajectory. It shows conditions for ensuring equal opportunities forstudents’ learning within such complexes. Both selection and structurization of suchcomplexes’ educational information follow students’ psychological development inperceiving it and focus on critical feature patterns of the adaptive resonance theoryand the Hopfield model for associative memory. The paper suggests evaluating students’activities within such complexes by comparing each participant’s achievements with theparameters of completed projects, using the index method based on qualimetricmeasurements. It specifies the features of an environmental approach in developing suchcomplexes; elaborating their educational material; determining types of learning tasks;creating means of monitoring students’ knowledge. It justifies the results ofexperimental work, which involved surveying 442 teachers and analyzes the influence ofsuch complexes on the effectiveness of the educational process. It highlights theimportance of introducing heuristic forms, methods and techniques of students’ learningto help students obtain, systematize and consolidate educational information and acquirepractical skills in performing creative projects and professional tasks.