CONCEPTUAL PRINCIPLES OF OPEN EDUCATION

The paper analyzes the essential characteristics of open education, as the global educational system and determines its tendencies in present conditions; discovers the reasons that influenced upon the process of development of open education. The notion «open education» is treated by foreign scientists differently. For example T. Iiyosh, D. Wiley consider open education as a learning system based on open educational resources and open technologies that provide learning with flexibility and opportunities for open exchange of teaching practices, as well as include new approaches to assessment, accreditation and collaborative learning. The study of the concept of «open education» as a learning system that encompasses resources, tools and methods is presented in the work of G. Siemens. G. Tleuzhanova and A. Khamzina consider this phenomenon as a synergetic system capable of self-development and further interaction with the environment. Therefore it was defined that open education flourished in the results of definite changes of society such as the process of integration, democratization and informatisation of society. Open education with its following characteristics as accessibility, parallelity, modulation, internationalization and coordination and with the usage of new technologies of education gives the opportunity to every person to get the education without data of place of his residence, age, nationality, physical condition. The analyze of scientific literature let us to determine the leading tasks of open education: provide the listeners with the means of access to educational materials; organize the management of educational process which gives the opportunity to inform society about educational questions and raise the effective managing of educational system; raise the level of education and educational services; provide the continual renewing of educational means and technologies for the listeners of open education.