Designing digital higher education environments for information and digital competence development

Abstract

The article develops the content and justifies the features of professional training for specialists by creating a digital higher-education environment to develop their information and digital competence. The factors most influencing a student's level of information and digital competence are identified. The content of the digital environment of higher education is substantiated. The core idea of the experimental study is that our system for training future specialists in higher education, by creating a digital environment to develop students' information and digital competence, is an effective means of preparing competitive specialists. We, based on statistical analysis, have proven that the developed system of training future specialists of higher education by creating a digital environment for the formation of information and digital competence of students makes it possible to form a value component, a technological component, an activity component, and a reflexive component of the specified competence of future specialists. Thus, our experiment confirmed the study's hypothesis and demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed system in developing the information and digital competence of future specialists.