Educational and Professional Program Web Project Management, Digital Content Design: Labor Functions and Activities’ Types of the Future Specialist

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to identify the main labor functions and activities of a future specialist in the current educational and professional program Web Projects Management, Digital Content Design of the specialty Information, Library, and Archival Affairs.
 Research methodology. General scientific research methods were used, in particular, analysis and synthesis; a hypothetical method, which made it possible, based on the analysis of interdisciplinary educational and professional programs in other humanitarian specialties, to formulate the didactic validity and pedagogical expediency of the proposed educational and professional program Web Projects Management, Digital Content Design of the specialty Information, Library, and Archival Affairs; methods of semantic and logical analysis of an array of documents (professional scientific publications, content of Internet resources) – to identify the state of theory and practice of training specialists under interdisciplinary educational and professional programs; the method of analogies – to establish similarities between pedagogical systems based on the signs of interdisciplinarity to justify the didactic possibility of implementing the studied educational and professional program.
 The scientific novelty of the research consists in identifying the labor functions and types of activities of the future specialist under the educational and professional program Web Projects Management, Digital Content Design.
 Conclusions. Strengthening the social-communicative function of organizations in the document and information sphere, in particular in the presentation of their activities in the web environment, actualizes the training of IT specialists for this subject area.
 The requirements for a modern specialist in the document and information field, the convergence of activities’ types and tasks that appear in the course of his work, determine the convergence of the program content Management of Web Projects, Design of Digital Content with the areas of IT and project management activities.
 The interdisciplinarity of the studied educational and professional program corresponds to the content of the activities of an information resources specialist in the context of digitalization.
 The analyzed drafts of professional standards and the experience of pedagogical systems functioning, the main concept of which is the integration of knowledge in the subject area with knowledge in the field of implementation and support of digital technologies that ensure its innovative functioning, are pedagogically appropriate and require further research to determine the content, forms, and methods of specialist training.