The Role of the Supplementary Professional Education in Building the Shared Information-Educational Environment
The paper concerns such timely and promising approach to improve the system of retraining and professional development of educators as creating the shared information-educational environment, which would integrate several educational stages. Challenges and tasks facing the above mentioned educational institutions are analyzed. It is further concluded that the system of retraining and professional development needs to be fundamentally restructured and modernized. These activities should be undertaken in a variety of areas, including one of the most important goals — to introduce inforamtization to the system of supplementary professional education, where the primary task is to create the shared information-educational environment. Beside the advantages of informatization the authors also point out to the risks along the process and emphasize that introduction of IT technologies should be incremental, targeted and well-thought-out.