COMPETENCE-BASED MODULAR APPROACH TO DEVELOPING THE READINESS OF CREATIVE UNIVERSITY TEACHERS TO WORK WITH INNOVATIONS

Global digitalization and the introduction of artificial intelligence into all spheres of human activity, including education, culture, and the arts, have brought to the forefront the use of innovative educational technologies in the work of university teachers. This article explores the problem of developing the readiness of teachers at creative universities to design and use innovative educational technologies in their work. The systemic-functional model presented by the author is based on a competency-based modular approach and most clearly reflects its specificity as a multi-component pedagogical phenomenon, which is based on the teachers’ ability to carry out their teaching activities based on their talent, teaching experience, acquired knowledge, skills, abilities, and professionally significant personal qualities (motivation, emotional and volitional potential). A competency-based modular technology, tested in 2023–2025, has enabled the development of a professional development program “Innovative Design in a Creative University in the Context of Digitalization”. Its effectiveness was experimentally confirmed as it was successfully implemented at the Faculty of Continuing Education at the Samara State Institute of Culture. At the stage of knowledge acquisition, the course was delivered through lectures and independent work, at stage of skills development, it included practical exercises on solving problems of selecting and justifying the components of readiness.