IMPLEMENTATION OF THE EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE OF FORMING DIGITAL COMPETENCES IN THE EDUCATION SYSTEM OF UKRAINE

Abstract

Relevance: the implementation of the European experience in the formation of digital competences in the education system of Ukraine is due to the need for widespread digitalization of processes and phenomena in society and the economy. The realities of the coming years have shown the effectiveness of the online educational process, but new IT in online education has challenged education seekers, teachers, and heads of educational institutions, including professional ones. Online education involves a complete transformation of the educational process and a change in pedagogical approaches and exacerbates the need for mandatory acquisition of digital competences by all participants for its full implementation and ensuring the quality of education. Professional education needs special attention, since the students of education above the basic secondary level are teenagers and young people, and control by parents or guardians is impossible for many reasons. In addition, teachers and masters of industrial training in disciplines that instill professional skills may find it useful to have specific IT skills to implement the educational process.

Purpose: analysis of the European experience of digitalization of processes in society and the real possibilities of its implementation in the education system of Ukraine; analysis of existing digital competence frameworks for citizens and teaching staff in Ukraine and the EU; a review of the existing online tools for self-assessment of the effectiveness of innovative digital technologies implementation in the educational process for an educational institution, a teacher and any citizen.

Methods: in accordance with the purpose, the following research methods were used: analysis, comparison and systematization in order to generalize theoretical materials and specification of basic concepts.

Results: a review of legislative and normative documents was carried out, which regulate the tasks of increasing the level of digital skills of members of society; the prerequisites for the acquisition of digital competences by members of society, including for online learning, were formulated, and measures for their implementation were determined; the framework of digital competences from the experience of EU countries, implemented for citizens of Ukraine and pedagogical workers; a review of online tools for self-assessment of the level of digitalization of educational institutions, digital competences of teachers, was carried out.

Conclusions: it was found that, due to their age, vocational education students often have a misunderstanding of their own IT knowledge and skills, which creates difficulties in participating in the educational process; industrial training masters have to study new specific IT skills for teaching professional disciplines; objective assessment of awareness and experience of using IT opportunities, awareness of the need to solve new problems in the online environment should become the basis for improving digital competence, which should be carried out permanently throughout life; the prerequisites for the acquisition of digital competences by the participants of the educational process for the successful implementation of mixed learning tasks (legislative, institutional, foreign policy, cognitive, technological, cyber security) are formulated; the measures implemented by the state to increase the digital competence of citizens are characterized.