FORMING ICT COMPETENCES OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS STUDENTS

Abstract

The information flood we face today is constantly increasing. The total amount of information is now far beyond what a human being can acquire for the whole life. So, the ability to pick up the relevant information, estimate its reliability and analyze them, is getting more and more important. Therefore, it is not surprising that Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) competences are among the key ones for every educated person nowadays. Specialists in the sphere of International Relations (IR) are not an exclusion being supposed to cope with the increasing flood of information steadily. The goal of this research is to define the most effective way of forming ICT competences of IR students. To reach the goal we consider the structure of ICT competences focusing on their components. Based on the Russian Federation State Standards we analyze the needs of IR specialists in terms of information competences and develop questionnaires to analyze ICT competences development of IR students. The analysis of the obtained data results with some recommendations aimed at enhancing the efficiency of ICT forming competences.