SUMMARY
The article features an innovative approach to the development of information readiness of pedagogical staff for the performance of their professional activities in full-time distance postgraduate learning. The essence and components (motivational, cognitive, operative and personal) of pedagogical staff's readiness for professional activity are characterized. Indicators of the distribution of teachers by levels of their information readiness (low, medium, high) for professional activity are given. The article also highlights methodology and results of the empirical study of the levels of pedagogical staff's information readiness for their professional activity, testifying to the insufficient level of development of such readiness with a considerable number of educators. It is shown that a high level of such readiness is peculiar to only one-tenth of the participated educators, who have deep and complete knowledge, skills and experience of work with information. They are characterized by developed personal qualities that provide active character and responsible attitude to the professional activity in the conditions of uncertainty. Other respondents have a partial (or nonexistence) awareness of possible negative consequences from the use of information, insufficient willingness to bear responsibility, as well as an inability to understand the regularities of information processes in the context of uncertainty, etc. The essence of experience technologies of the development of information readiness of pedagogical staff to professional activity in conditions of part-time distance teaching in postgraduate education is revealed. It also highlights the specific features of the implementation of experience technologies regarded as a tool for specialist training on the basis of practical experience and their application in the process of professional development. It emphasizes the effectiveness of experience technologies in non-linear forms of training, which create the conditions for learners to make a conscious choice of learning content and forms of their own professional development.