Transfer approach to the problem of forming competitiveness of students in IT-study areas at the university

Background. The rates and needs of modern society development under digital transformation determine the increase in requirements for training IT personnel in universities. The search for ways to meet these requirements induces the development of new approaches which can combine the theory and practice of creating innovations, as well as an effective knowledge transfer between education, science and enterprises that are the innovative solutions’ developers and consumers. One of these approaches is the transfer approach, that has great research and didactic potential for solving the problem of forming students’ competitiveness in IT training programs at a university.

Purpose is unveiling the transfer approach requisites, essence and content in relation to the problem of forming students’ competitiveness in IT training programs in the educational process of the university.

Materials and methods. During the study the scientific works of foreign and domestic authors on the research problem were analyzed, as well as a comparison and collation analysis of the competence, contextual, environmental and transfer approaches were conducted. The sequence of presentation of the material is based on the deductive method.

Results. A new function for universities related to knowledge transfer is considered in the article. It is shown that this function is distinguished as part of various modern university development concepts and is described by such a model representation as the “knowledge triangle”. This model reveals the significance of knowledge transfer between education, science and the innovation sector for forming effective educational programs, research commercialization and entrepreneurial culture development. The requisites for forming this approach in pedagogics, that are the knowledge economy theory development and the competence, contextual and environmental approaches’ integration are considered. The transfer approach essence is to transfer relevant explicit and implicit knowledge from one context to another one, which ensures students’ pre-adaptation and professional education transdisciplinarity. The transfer approach content as applied to forming students’ competitiveness in IT training programs is determined through its application directions and ideas that can be useful for the further development of principles’ patterns for the process under consideration realization.