Collaborative Educational Approach as Contact Work Technology in Higher School

Abstract

The chapter focuses on collaborative educational technology and shows its efficacy in developing professionally significant qualities in college/university students. Both theory and practice of the technology are justified by history, description of technology stage launching, specifics in organization, and preparation of didactic material. Evidence-based research, which has been conducted with higher school students majoring in psychology, is presented. Sampling group involved in a transformative psychological and pedagogical experiment consisted of 60 subjects. Outcomes of the technology implementation can be students develop motivation in a course study, acquisition of knowledge in group work becomes more effective, researching students' psychological aspects of collaboration becomes significant.