The Role of the Teacher in the Formation of Media Competence of University Students: Problems and Prospects

The actualization of media education issues in the modern world necessitates the improvement of the activities of universities in general, and the work of a teacher in particular.It is the teacher who is at the forefront of working with young people, responsible for developing skills in working with information, its analysis, understanding and generation.The purpose of this article is related to the study of the role of a teacher in the practices of forming students' media competence.The leading research method is a questionnaire survey of students of Russian universities (n = 633).It was found that students rate the efficiency of the teacher's use of multimedia services, presentations and other traditional attributes of working with information quite highly.However, with fairly high ratings of the level of teaching in higher education, a third of students note the lack of interactivity in the work of teachers.Self-assessments of the level of students' media competence showed a high level of polarization of knowledge and skills of young people.High ratings were received for such skills as "using different sources of information", "observance of the culture of behavior in the digital environment".Lower ratings were received for such competencies as "the ability to work with large volumes of digital data, conduct analytics", "produce multimedia content".The results of the qualitative study showed that the teacher's exactingness is a key factor in the formation of analytical skills for working with information.It was found that the insufficient content of digital platforms used in training with materials limits the formation of students' media competence.