Theoretical and applied aspects of using psycho-pedagogical technologies of "crowdsourcing" in higher military school cadets' training

The Russian military education undergoes development. The major condition of such development is search, employment and creation of the educational technologies allowing to achieve the required level of training military specialists. Such technologies can include crowdsourcing technologies. Crowdsourcing technologies assume cadets' involvement into the process of joint pedagogical creativity and their transformation into «a collective teacher». A «collective teacher» is distinguished by the capability to approach an educational problem from various perspectives, use diverse life experience, understand the trainees' requirements and speak the language comprehensible to learners. The conducted research proves that learners prefer such forms of the lessons where they can be more active, «extract» and «discover» knowledge rather than get it ready-made. The cadets' active role becomes the means of their self-development and ensures the transition from «learning activity» to «learning through activity». The study shows that crowdsourcing learning technologies allow dividing responsibility for the interest, emotional fulfillment and productivity of the lesson between the teacher and learners. By engaging participants of the learning process into a mutual learning interaction crowdsourcing technologies can increase and simplify the formation of military cadets' knowledge, skills and abilities as well as the tackled professional military competences.