Innovative aspects of designing learning outcomes to improve the professional training of specialists in tourism

Abstract

The need for a meaningful transformation of the professional education of specialists in tourism is due to both the increasing demands of employers to the level of their training, and the intensive tourism industry development. The scientific novelty of the research is the development and methodological justification of the design of the planned learning outcomes based on the principles of "from the result" and "practice-oriented" by taking into account the interaction of a combination of three factors that determine the effectiveness of modern training in the field of tourism: 1. The Federal State Educational Standard of Higher Education (FGOS HE); 2. CDIO Syllabus (a system of content or a list of employers' requirements for vocational education in terms of attributes (competencies) and 3) the results of a survey of stakeholders on the list of significant competencies of a graduate of a tourist profile university and their priority. Description of the design of the planned learning outcomes it is made on the example of a separate direction of professional training at a university (43.03.02 "Tourism", profile "Tour operator and travel agent activity"). Considering this approach as one of the advanced methods of development, continuous improvement and evaluation of higher education programs, the authors propose a further algorithm for creating professional programs by determining the planned learning outcomes. Stavropol State Agrarian University has developed and is implementing 12 pilot programs in a similar way. The result of the design and qualitative updating of educational programs will be the formation of a complex of professional competencies of university graduates in demand for the tourism sector, allowing them to effectively perform professional tasks and function constructively in the conditions of innovative development of the tourism industry.