Varchenko-Trotsenko L. Wiki-technology as a means to support the project activity of students of humanitarian specialties of university

Article describes the current trends in education, analyzes and theoretically grounds conceptual-categorical apparatus and conceptual basis of creating a learning environment to support project activities of students; analyzes the different structures of learning environments, determines the structure of the learning environment and the factors which they put on the formation of the learning environment; characterizes the features of wiki-technology and its use in education to support the project activities of students. Posted model of developed wiki-based learning environment of the modern university, identified the advantages of wiki-technology to the educational environment, and determined the structure of wiki-based learning environment to support project activities of students. Also was identified principles of cooperation participants of the educational process in wiki-oriented learning environment, the ways of project methodologies based on wiki-based learning environment, highlighted the use of Wiki-portal as a means of open presentation of the educational activities of teaching staff and students use Wiki-portal for organizing open training courses. The paper shows basic stages of experimental work, tasks, content and results of pedagogical experiment, performed statistical processing and analysis of results of pedagogical experiment.