Students’ Information Culture Development As Part Of Self-Learning Activities In Higher Education

Abstract

In the modern society, people must learn how to adapt to new social and economic conditions, and this requirement causes certain changes in the professional training system - it should develop the creativity of students and teach them how to obtain knowledge using a comprehensive approach. In the authors’ opinion, to achieve these goals one should find new ways to solve two basic problems. Firstly, the methods of information delivery should be reconsidered, and, secondly, students’ self-learning activities should be organized in a new way. The aim of the new self-learning system is to make students comprehend new material after learning it, thus internalizing this information, which should be achieved during students’ self-learning activities. It means that the status of a student should change. So, students must be taught how to interact with the informational environment as part of their self-learning activities. Thus, developing students’ information culture should become one of the most important goals related to improving the quality of higher education professional training.The article addresses some aspects of students’ information culture development as part of self-learning activities taking place in a higher educational institution. It describes the concept of the information culture of a graduate and its components. The authors specify the role of the information technology infrastructure and point out the potential of the didactic computer environment in the development of students’ information culture as part of self-learning activities.