Pasternak V. The formation of digital competence of future masters in the field of tourism

The goal of the study is to identify, substantiate, and experimentally verify the effectiveness of pedagogical conditions for the formation of digital competence of future masters in the field of tourism. The goal of the study is specified through a set of research objectives: 1) based on the analysis of the problem of forming digital competence of future masters in the field of tourism, to characterise its essence and structural components; 2) to identify and substantiate the criteria, indicators and levels of formation of digital competence of future masters in the field of tourism; 3) to determine and substantiate the pedagogical conditions for the formation of digital competence of future masters in the field of tourism; 4) to develop scientific and methodological recommendations for the formation of digital competence of future masters in the field of tourism; 5) to conduct a pedagogical experiment to test the effectiveness of the pedagogical conditions for the formation of digital competence of future masters in the field of tourism. The professional training of future masters in the field of tourism is the object of the study. The pedagogical conditions for the formation of digital competence of future masters in the field of tourism are the subject of the study. Methods: Critical and problem oriented analysis, synthesis, systematization, generalization, induction, deduction, abstraction, concretization, pedagogical experiment, observation, interview, questionnaire survey, testing, and mathematical statistics. The scientific novelty of the obtained results lies in the fact that for the first time the pedagogical conditions for the formation of digital competence of future masters in the field of tourism have been determined, substantiated, and experimentally verified (encouraging students to form digital competence in the conditions of master’s training; enriching the components of the educational and professional program with digital knowledge; ensuring the practical direction of the educational process in order to form digital skills and abilities; developing scientific and methodological recommendations for ensuring the formation of digital competence of future masters in the field of tourism); based on the analysis of the problem of forming digital competence of future masters in the field of tourism, its essence and structural components (axiological, epistemological, operational) are characterized; scientific and methodological recommendations for the formation of digital competence of future masters in the field of tourism are developed; the essence of the concepts of “professional training”, “master’s degree”, “tourism”, “competence”, “professional competence”, “digital competence” has been clarified; the diagnostic apparatus of the study, represented by criteria (value-motivational, epistemological-informational, activity-behavioural), substantiated indicators and levels of their manifestation, has been improved; the theses on the application of systemic, competency-based, axiological, activity-based, personality oriented, interdisciplinary, interactive approaches to the formation of digital competence of future masters in the field of tourism, as well as the content of the formation of digital competence of future masters in the field of tourism have been further developed.