Acquisition of Professional Competences in General Technical Disciplines by Bachelors in Agricultural Engineering in the Conditions of a Mediacommunication Educational Environment

Abstract

The work describes the technology of acquiring professional competences in general technical disciplines by bachelors in agricultural engineering in the conditions of a media communication educational environment. In the framework of integration into the global educational space, it is important to focus the curricula of higher education applicants on a competency-based approach. In the conditions of technical progress, the competency-based approach in the training of higher education applicants should be implemented through three aspects: the development and implementation of modern educational standards in the pedagogical practice of training future specialists; training of students of higher education by means of digital media communication technologies; reliable quality control of the acquisition of competences in the digital space. Obtaining the appropriate level of acquisition of professional competences by higher education applicants requires the use of media communication technologies. The technology of creating a repository of competencies, the system of their coding, and the leading principles of developing a set of tasks for the formation of professional competencies in general technical disciplines by bachelors in agricultural engineering are considered. The implementation of the proposed technology is based on: creating a repository of professional competencies in the digital space, linking the professional competencies embedded in the repository to tasks in the digital educational space, and monitoring the acquisition of professional competencies by higher education applicants by means of the digital media communication environment. The acquisition of professional competences takes place within the web resources of the higher education institution, which have the following blocks: information blocks on disciplines; consultation points for applicants and tutors through thematic forums, chats and e-mail; block of presentation of educational information in text, audiovisual, graphic form; controlling and analytical divisions of digital media communications. In the process of completing the task, higher education applicants and tutors have the opportunity to monitor the degree of acquisition of certain competencies, and at the end of training to evaluate the overall picture of competencies acquired as a result of training in all courses provided for in the educational program.