(942) ADAPTIVE EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT: CREATING A CULTURE OF INNOVATION TO SUPPORT STUDENTS' PRACTICAL KEY COMPETENCES DEVELOPMENT

摘要

This Higher education institutions are under significant pressure to provide affordable and sustainableapproach that will prepare undergraduates with the skills they will need after graduation to achievesuccess in the 21st century European marketplace. Adaptive educational environment is among thenew technology-based tools that have emerged with a promise to help educational institutions toprepare students better by providing them with valuable experimental learning and practical trainingopportunities that are uniquely suited to enable educational environment to increase students'engagement for higher-order knowledge formation and practical beneficial skills. Additionally,universities are now offering study programs with courses that combine elements of face-to-faceinstruction and online learning, known as “blended-learning” concept. The quality of teaching andlearning in Slovak universities has long been a concern for governments, and continues to grow inimportance. This article also presents the national project data from the stage of modelling a newadvanced personalized educational multimodal virtual environment to the creating a culture ofinnovation for support students' practical key competences development as an impact of neweducational technologies. This paper presents an advanced educational model based on a creativediversity and problem solving techniques to move through the stages of a problem solving/creativeprocess, each stage carried out at low to high level and using any creative style, as well. The paper isaimed to techniques as specific learned methods that allow students to use their existing cognitiveresources - level and style to best advantages in the whole creative and innovation cycle to help anindividual student to use what she/he actually holds, but in more effective ways through the learnedmanaged personal behaviours. Experimental exercises in the process solution for a selected group ofmechatronics students use the modular chain of typical technology applications based on virtualmodelling, simulation and instrumentation environment to create a dynamic model of innovativeproduct or technology using representative mathematical system description with a simple or morecomplicated stimulus in the simulation. For this innovative concept, we present assessed element inthe individual student's cognitive strategy applying her/his knowledge about successful projectpresentation delivery by providing the tutors and students forum best practices for problem solvingstage. For the purposes of this article, an adaptive educational environment is presented from aninstitutional perspective and local industrial companies. The article discusses the didactical modelbased on the synergy of a course content and students key competences using blended learning andproject-based concept leaving enough opportunity for students to practise by a single individualexperiences or by a group under which task performance is accomplished more efficiently. Ultimately,the findings suggest that adaptive educational environment to support university students' practicalkey competences brings essential advantages and vital benefits from the three-key-partnershipeducational concept (3KP) as a result of experiences to stimulate student's engagement and supportdeeper and practical learning through the synergy of the variety of educational experimental tools andeffective model of didactics.