The potential of a personal educational environment in the development of information and communication competence of a university teacher

In modern conditions, significant changes are taking place in the functional components of the university teachers activity, due to the influence of many factors of the transforming digital educational reality. The paper actualizes the problem of detailed study at the theoretical and practical level of the process of developing information and communication competence of a teacher, as a personal quality manifested in the willingness and ability to work with information, the main types of software and hardware and to carry out productive interaction in the digital educational space, due to the capabilities and resources of personal educational environment. The author of the paper defines the possibilities (filling with various structural components depending on the goals, objectives, content of activities and planned results; adaptation to the abilities, needs, interests of the teacher; providing conditions for achieving the necessary level of personal self-organization of the individual; creating a space for effective online communication; integration of formal education and education outside the formal system; implementation of individual models of pedagogical activity) and resources (functional technical and software tools: gadgets, services, programs, platforms, as well as their interrelations; electronic information and educational resources used to solve educational and professional-pedagogical tasks, as well as contributing to effective personal and professional development) of the personal educational environment in the development of information and communication competence of a university teacher.