Wiki portal as a tool for the implementation of educational innovations

The article highlights the problems associated with the refinement of methodological approaches of network forms of learning. It demonstrates exclusive features of intellectual-personality Internet resources. A special motivational significance of particularly designed Wiki portals for educational purposes has been shown by an example of innovative teaching of authors’ art and related curricular. One of the important advantages of Wiki portals is their connection to a common global Wiki warehouse, and thanks to regularly updating by Internet users it obtains this tremendous multimedia content in the form of millions of units of all potentially used formats which could be applied in the educational process. The component structure of pedagogical design of demonstrated project has a number of specialized websites with all their extensive multimedia content consisting of interactive editable texts, graphics, flash and gif animations, sound files, music, videos, and etc. The principle of editing openness of wiki articles originally builds into them a huge perfectionist and educational potential; it allows users to correct regularly the errors and inaccuracies in the articles. Thereby materials are being constantly improved, finalized, enhanced and developed. Besides, there is guaranteeing saving of all editorial corrections in the history; that provides the ability of quickly return to any previous version of each article. In the context of an innovative approach to the study of such subjects as ‘The Philosophy of Music’, ‘Psychology of Music’, ‘Sociology of Music’, ‘Music Aesthetics’, and etc., students are introduced to ‘Essence Coding Theory’ (ECT), ‘Sublimation psychology’, ‘Timbreology’, specificity ‘Art-humanitarian practice’ the author introduced into scientific discourse a whole new range of psychological and philosophical concepts: ‘passionary-evolutionary ethics’, ‘sublimation esthetics’, ‘ethical semiotics’, ‘esthetic-sublimation insight’, ‘noematic theurgy’ and others, as well as adequate modern musicological realities definition: ‘emotive timbre typology’, ‘sonoristic matrix’, ‘coding-numeric score’ and etc. A special attention is drawn to the fact that the pages of educational Wiki portals can be employed as an inexhaustible source of constantly updated thematic information, including material from the discussion-polemical nature.

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