UDC 37.046.16

Rezhetskaia A.I.¹ (Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation) – rezhetskaya@yandex.ru; Rezer T.M.¹ (Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation) – t.m.rezer@urfu.ru

¹Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin

Abstract. The digital transformation of society and the economy, regulated by Decree No. 309 of the President of the Russian Federation dated September 7, 2024, “On the National Development Goals of the Russian Federation through 2030 and through 2036,” is driving a systemic crisis in Russian higher education, manifested in a divergence between graduate training outcomes and the current labor market demands of the digital economy. Under these conditions, the development of information and network competence (INC) as an integrative meta-competence is becoming a pedagogical imperative. However, this process is being hindered by a complex set of unresolved methodological and practice-oriented issues. The purpose of this study is to identify and conceptualize the pedagogical challenges of developing INC in university students. The research is based on a historical and logical approach, which allows for the reconstruction of the genesis of INC in Russia, and a systems-activity approach, which allows for an analysis of the problematic field in its structural integrity. The study identified and scientifically substantiated a periodization of the development of ISC in the domestic education sector, comprising five dialectically interconnected stages. It was established that the problematic field has a multi-level structure (macro-, meso-, and micro-levels) and is characterized by the stable reproducibility of key contradictions. A pressing issue is the dominance of the technocratic approach and research in the field of information and communication competence, with insufficient theoretical development of ISC as an anthropocentric metacompetence. The results of the study can be used to modernize higher education curricula, develop new pedagogical technologies, create diagnostic tools, and shape state educational policy in the context of digitalization.

Keywords: information and network competence, digitalization, transformation of education, pedagogical problems, meta-competence, digital didactics, higher education.

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For citation: Rezhetskaia A.I., Rezer T.M. Pedagogical problems of developing information and network competence of students of the universities. CITISE, 2025, no. 4, pp. 878-887.