DEVELOPMENT OF DIGITAL COMPETENCE UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF DIGITALIZATION OF EDUCATION

Alla Klochko; Alla Prokopenko

doi:10.23856/5615

Alla Klochko Bila Tserkva National Agrarian University https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6631-2638
Alla Prokopenko Distance Learning Scientific Center of the National Defense University of Ukraine named after Ivan Chernyakhovsky https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5719-844X

Keywords: distance learning, information and communication technologies, digital society, information and educational environment, digital competence

Abstract

The development of the digital environment covers almost all spheres of life. Today, every person needs a wide range of digital knowledge, abilities, and skills in the intelligent use of the latest technologies for education, professional activities, and participation in society. Special attention is paid to providing the educational process of institutions of higher military education with appropriate digital technologies that would meet modern challenges and ensure the support and development of modern digital competencies of teachers. The article presents the results of an empirical study of the peculiarities of the development of digital competences among scientific and scientific-pedagogical employees of institutions of higher military education. It was established that in the conditions of digital challenges, the role of a teacher of a higher military education institution as a provider of digital transformations and the formation of his digital competence becomes important. It was noted that the majority of scientific and scientific-pedagogical workers paid due attention to the issue of systematic application of information technologies in professional activities. It was established that teachers need the development of digital competence related to the work of gamification tools, content visualization for solving practical, professional and general educational goals. It was determined that the digital competence of scientific and scientific-pedagogical workers of institutions of higher military education should be considered as the newest type of literacy, which is associated with special knowledge, skills, and practical skills for activities in a digital educational environment. Mandatory structural components of a teacher's digital competence are computer literacy, information literacy, communicative literacy, and safety in the digital environment. The development of digital competences of teachers will contribute to the establishment of interaction with students, overcoming the digital gap between participants in the educational process, the development of digital literacy of students, and their conscious use of digital technologies for their own realization in the conditions of a digital society.

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