In modern society, an increasingly important role is played by knowledge workers whose professional competence is one of the basic resources of the company and organisation evolution. In order to be competitive, knowledge workers have to keep up with new knowledge, which makes the process of continuous education of employees as one of the priorities in the staff management. One type of lifelong education - collaborative education - provides benefits for cognitive achievements. The Article deals with the characteristics, basic tasks and the operational process of collaborative education. The conceptual model of intelligent collaborative educational system is presented; the functions of system basic models and the scheme for setting up the training scenario are described. Besides, the focus is on the group formation issues.