Designing of the content and the technology of the educational process while teaching elective disciplines: work experience

The problem of evaluation and testing of approaches to planning the content and technologies of elective course teaching is discussed. The reasons are higher school modernization and different student groups, the necessity to form educational environment in the higher school to provide multivariant development of students as well as their academic and social integration. An algorithm of planning an elective course has developed from experience. The article discusses its main elements: defining the goals and type of the elective course, defining the types of activities to master the selected content; defining the content of student independent work; defining the criteria and indices of course efficiency and forms of summative assessment