On-line and Off-line Educational Means of the Industrial Region Engineers and Academic Staff Training

Regional well-being depends on the quality of engineering qualifications. Universities deal with a twofold task: training students to work in high-tech industries and the employee qualifications continuous development at industrial enterprises. Rapid technological changes lead to a negative synergetic effect and a problem of high-quality education: lack of teaching expertise leads to insufficient employee readiness to work in new conditions. To solve this problem, we suggest introducing a combination of online and offline means to train engineers and academic staff of technical departments. These means include: online monitoring of job functions update along with offline discussions with company management; project and innovation activities training; providing online information concerning advanced programs of additional professional education; creating electronic analogs storing educational content of distance learning programs; organizing education using project-based learning technologies and mutual learning.