V nastoyashchee vremya s vozniknoveniem novogo informatsionnogo prostranstva pered sistemoy obrazovaniya stoit zadacha obnovleniya soderzhaniya obucheniya, aktualen poisk novykh metodov i form. Mnogie pedagogi, praktikuyushchie innovatsionnuyu deyatel'nost' v sfere obrazovatel'nykh tekhnologiy, otmechayut, chto v poiske novykh modeley obrazovaniya sushchestvennuyu rol' mogla by okazat' sinergetika (ot grecheskogo 'sovmestnyy', 'soglasovanno deystvuyushchiy'). V nastoyashchee vremya pod terminom sinergetika ponimaetsya mezhdistsiplinarnoe nauchnoe napravlenie, osnovnym predmetom poznaniya kotorogo yavlyaetsya samoorganizatsiya sistemnykh obrazovaniy, rassmatrivaemaya so storony vzaimootnosheniy i vzaimoperekhodov drug v druga.