Cross-cutting tasks system as a condition of professional training orientation of students majoring in «Applied Information Technologies»

The paper deals with the cross-cutting tasks system use for the university education as a necessary condition of professional education orientation. The application of the cross-cutting tasks system promotes holistic students’ thinking and helps to master the means of action in a particular work situation. The paper contains a fragment of the system developed by the author for the course «Subject-oriented economic information systems» for bachelor students majoring in «Applied Information Technologies in Economics». The course consists of several modules, the cross-cutting tasks system is used in the module «Information systems of personnel management». The fragment of the system contains multiple «plot» lines that show methods of standard operations for personnel documents maintaining and enterprise personnel management, calculation and salary payment in the automated system. Specific tasks help to demonstrate continuity and connectivity of all sections in the module. The author of the paper considers some difficulties of the cross-cutting tasks system application: strict sequence of the methodology; difference in time that students need to perform the tasks; inability to include some tasks in the system; dependence on the results obtained during previous classes. The paper also contains possible ways of overcoming these difficulties.