Information support of adaptation of students of the 1st course to education in higher education institutions (based on the example of lviv polytechnic national university)

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to study the experience of developing and implementing an information
resource to improve the adaptation of first-year students to study in higher education. The methodology is to
apply general scientific methods of analysis, generalization, systematization, and comparison, which allowed
to develop of a hierarchical structure of the process of adaptation of first-year students in the educational
and social environment of higher education to design and fill information resources for student interaction
with departments university (for example, Lviv Polytechnic National University). The scientific novelty is the
expansion of theoretical knowledge and practical skills to create an information resource that will help students
find the necessary and useful information to facilitate its adaptation. Conclusions. Creating an interactive
information space for the adaptation of first-year students provides an opportunity to ensure the successful
adaptation of students to new challenges in their lives. The management of higher education institutions is
interested in the fastest possible educational, scientific, creative, sports, and social adaptation of students.
The proposed hierarchical structure will determine the main directions of adaptation of students depending
on the peculiarities of the organization of student life in higher education. Each direction of adaptation
contains its own sub-goals, which detail the activities in this direction. Achieving the mentioned sub-goals is
ensured by appropriate means and recommendations. The offered information resource will allow to carry out
information support of the student in the course of its adaptation. This resource will greatly simplify the search
for the necessary information for educational, scientific, creative, and social activities of the student, help in
organizing independent work, and provide feedback to the first-year student with the structural units of higher
education.
Keywords: adaptation, an adaptation of freshmen, an institution of higher education, information
educational space, social adaptation, psychological adaptation, freshmen.