The advent of the 21st century is called the period of neologisms, since the vocabulary of the language is constantly enriched with new words that are closely related to rapid changes in society, social, political, economic and scientific-technical spheres. Recent changes in any area are reflected in the language in the form of the appearance of new lexical units. This article examines the issue of the origin of neologisms in the thematic group education/pedagogy, determining the methods of their formation, and integrating such words into the vocabulary of the Russian language.