MODERN TENDENCIES OF THE FORMATION OF THE DIGITAL SOCIETY AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATION COMPETENCE OF HIGHER STUDENTS
The article discusses modern trends in the development of a digital society and their impact on the development of information competence of university students, which are associated with the emergence and development of national projects and programs, with the challenges of civilization to professional education. The anthropooriented and competency-based approaches underlying the study determined the choice of methods: extrapolation and modeling. On this basis, in the context of the study, attention is paid to informational, intellectual, communicative, anthropooriented challenges that affect the development of informational competence of university students, which are described in studies carried out in the scientific and pedagogical schools of professors I.V. Robert, M.N. Nevzorova, M.A. Nevzorova and their students. Based on the analysis of research data, the emphasis is placed on the fact that the informational competence of university students is a complex system in the structure of the personality, associated with the categories of “responsibility” and “information”, with the readiness of the person for network interaction, with skills in relation to information, with the ability to generate and maintain online content. The main provisions and conclusions of the article can be used when considering issues of the nature and trends of the development of information competence of university students. Promising areas of research are indicated.