STRUCTURE OF HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION LECTURER’S INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION COMPETENCE

The introduction of new professional standards made the integration of information and communication technologies into teaching and learning the priority of the modernization of Russian education. The Russian and foreign regulation documents including professional standards for different education levels and it is concluded that information-communication (IC) competence of higher educational institution lecturer are analysed. They have a three-level structure which reflects the information and communication technology (ICT) competence of a teacher in a related subject area. The information-communication (IC) competence of higher educational institution lecturer is considered to be an essential professional characteristic encouraging the use of ICT to solve a wide range of pedagogical tasks and to model and design the instruction as well as to enable learners to use ICT in their professional sphere. Professional development courses are said to contribute to the development of digital literacies of the information-communication (IC) competence of higher educational institution lecturer. Not with standing a wide spectrum of professional development courses and programmes available on the educational market now, there is a number of objective factors which make the development of the information-communication (IC) competence less effective. Lack of continuous support and counseling in between the courses is one of the factors. It is suggested that one of the solutions is to use digital technologies which have a great didactic potential in this regard.

information-communication competence, professional development, professional standards, integration of information-communication technologies in teaching and learning