Voloshyna T. The use of a hybrid cloud-based learning environment for forming the self-education competence of future IT specialists

The thesis is devoted to the problem of forming self-education competence of future specialists in information technologies by using hybrid cloud-oriented learning environment (HCOLE). It analyzes the foreign and national experience of the research topic and defines the notion of “self-education competence” for future information technologies specialists. It determines the components, levels and criteria for forming the self-education competence of future information technologies specialists. It analyzes the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) means for the formation of self-education competence of future information technologies specialists; suggests the elaborated HCOLE model of a higher educational institution (HEI) for training future IT specialists and defines the notion of a “hybrid cloud-based learning environment”. A model is developed for the formation of self-education competence of future IT specialists using HCOLE. The methodology of applying HCOLE for the formation of self-education competence of IT-specialty students was developed within the framework of the thesis and its efficiency was experimentally verified. General findings of the pedagogical experiment testified, that the use of HCOLE in the process of studying professionally-oriented academic disciplines in the information technologies sphere on the basis of the developed methodology fosters the formation of students’ self-education competence and is worth being implemented into the educational process of training IT-specialty students at HEI.