Strategy of designing additional educational programs in the field of teachers’ digital competencies of the higher agricultural education

Abstract

The article presents a strategy for designing additional educational programs in the field of teachers’ digital competencies of higher agricultural education. The relevance of the research topic is substantiated (based on a brief review of modern publications of Scopus knowledge-intensive database), we developed theoretical approaches to the empirical part of designing additional educational programs to improve teachers’ digital literacy. As part of an expert survey (347 people – representatives of the pedagogical community of higher agricultural education in the South of Russia) we identified the most relevant areas of improving the digital competencies of scientific and pedagogical workers of a modern agricultural university: the ability to develop their own means of digital communication; the ability to create virtual platforms for study groups; improving the skills of developing interactive tasks in Web-2 services.0; ability to create visually interesting interactive materials; development of goal-setting skills in the process of choosing, changing, combining and creating digital learning resources, taking into account the educational context, educational goals and target audience. The results of the study allow us to identify important information sections for the development of a professional development program in the field of digital competence of teachers of agricultural education.