Media competence formation of students of specialty “Publishing and editing” in Ukraine

Abstract

The article describes the results of pedagogical experiment with students of specialty “Publishing and Editing” in Ukraine that deals with media competence of editors and professionally oriented sites as means of its formation. Results were obtained through the questionnaire which consisted of 9 questions that are described in this paper. The level of media and information literacy of respondents with the purpose of its further improvement through the creation of a special course was defined. Also the article provides the definitions of media competence of editor and professionally oriented websites.