Teaching conditions for forming team competence in IT specialists training

Abstract

Preparing a successful IT specialist who has a number of personal qualities and abilities that will enable him to effectively solve the tasks of his professional practice is the most important task of the university. Universities in Russia plan educational activities taking into account the requirements of the current economic situation, federal educational standards and their own curriculum to optimize the preparation of the future IT specialist and determine the ways and means of forming key competencies at the level of methods and types of educational activities. The structured and systematized project activity of the students acts as a condition for the formation of the future specialist’s universal competences. One of the most sought-after universal competencies today is the ability to work in a team in project activities. Integration of the project activity into the educational environment of the university consists in the development and implementation of the student’s individual educational route and will allow actualizing the self-improvement and self-development of the student in professional and personal aspects. The project activity of the student must be structured in terms of goals, objectives, implementation stages, the planned result, activities and methods of influence on student’s personal qualities and abilities. Criteria for evaluating the efficiency of the project activities are indicators of the degree of formation of universal competence. We report on our implementation of this idea, including details on the composition of the team, the development methodology and end results. Our experience and methodology can help faculty at other institutions implement similar multidisciplinary capstone projects