Higher school reorganization requires significant restructuring not only of the content, but also of the technology of teaching the students, searching and using teaching tools, which are most suitable for the new educational paradigm and are aimed at interaction between research and teaching staff of a higher educational institution, students and the market, represented by potential employers. This can be actualized through facilitation of the educational process for increasing master’s students’ involvement and interest and revealing their potential. In the process of organizing the educational process in a university the necessity of additional organization of group work, or facilitation, increases each year. The aim of present work is to study the role and place of facilitation in the educational process by analyzing the applied methods, which help increasing the educational activity efficiency (on the example of a master’s program disciplines).

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