DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/IFOST.2016.7884105

Summary
The article presents the system for the information and communication competence (ICC) development system in Russia. The authors motivate the development of such system by the rapid changes in the IT field, and therefore the dynamic requirements for the IT professionals and curriculum. The developed competence model consists of five stages that cover students from general education, bachelor, professionally oriented bachelor and master programmes, students of the extended education. The stages include theoretical studies, practical training, preparation for the students’ contests, and research projects at the level respective to the students’ qualifications.

Relevance for Complex Systems Knowledge
The ways how educational system can cope with the challenges of quickly changing field of ICT, changes in curriculum and high-level requirements for the IT specialists by developing informative communicative competence (SICC) in educational and professional fields are discussed in this paper. In order to approach these challenges, the authors suggest a spiral complex system for developing SICC. This system has five main stages. In the first stage, the basic information and communication competence are developed in secondary schools. The second stage is dedicated to the first and second-year students and include interdisciplinary activities in the fields of IT, business and project management. The third stage provides professional oriented training in the workplace. In the fourth stage, master students develop competences related to innovative activities and skills for computer-aided solution of analytical application tasks. In the fifth stage, extended education students aim to solve problems of different specialization level. Although the system presented in this article was designed for IT field, it does not specifically refer to any professional field and can be applied in other fields to develop SICC and train specialists for a labor market.

Point of Strength
The strength of this article is that is provides a path how theoretical studies, practical training and research work can contribute to the complex system of developing informative communicative competence in different educational levels (high school students, bachelor, professional training and etc.)