Didactic Support of Resource Component for Educational Environment of Higher Learning Institution for Development of Students’ Information Literacy

Abstract

Rapid development of information and communication technologies in modern society is applied to all spheres of human activities nowadays. These transformations have changed employers’ requirements to young specialists. The specialists who are in demand in the labour market must have professional skills and abilities as well as capability of orientation in modern data flows and can get necessary information promptly, enlarge knowledge and put it into practice. Thus, the level of professional competence in the field of information technologies becomes very important. In this case the relevant problem to be solved in modern pedagogy of higher learning institution is the development of didactic support during the process of training further specialists to the effective information retrieval activity, forming skills of information self-sufficiency and developing information literacy as personal quality promoting them to compete in the labour market. In the result of this problem solution the particular relevance in teaching students to work with electronic informational resources gets the applying electronic educational papers applied as learning software and being didactic support of resource component for educational environment of higher learning institution.