FORMATION OF SELF-EDUCATIONAL COMPETENCE OF FUTURE IT SPECIALISTS

Abstract

The article deals with theoretical and practical aspects of self-educational competence formation of IT students. It determines the concept and structure of self-educational competence, analyzes the information resources and services that are used to develop it. The article offers the system of ICT-tools for the formation of self-educational competence of future IT specialists: the resources of the University educational portal, the online academy, massive open professionally-oriented online courses, computer-aided code verification systems, practical programming courses, cloud platforms for the development of software systems, the environment for implementing collective projects. It defines the system of indicators of self-educational competence according to such components, as: motivational-value-based, organizational-technological, practice-activity, reflexive-analytic, and determines the following levels of formation of self-educational competence of future IT specialists, which will reflect the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the concept under study: high, middle, and low. The article presents the results of experimental research on formation of self-educational competence of future IT specialists using the developed system of ICT tools, in particular, positive effect of using the ICT tools in the learning process on the level of self-educational competence of future IT specialists. Theoretical and methodological aspects of the future IT specialists’ self-educational competence formation by means of using resources and services of the information and educational environment of the higher educational institution are substantiated.