The Content and Relevance of Developing Students' Creative Competence Through Software Learning Tools

The socio-economic and technological advancements require higher education systems to train competitive, innovative, and creative thinking specialists in engineering. In this context, the use of modeling, simulation, and automation design technologies have been used as an integrated software learning tool to improve the creative competence of students in engineering education. Although there is a lot of theory on creativity and competence-based education in engineering education literature, relatively little deliberate pedagogical embedding of software tools, as one of the vehicles to cultivate domain-specific creativity, is discussed. The purpose of this research is to confirm the pedagogical perspective on software-mediated education as one that develops students of creative competence and will for novel professional designansuctions. The results imply that students exhibit originality, flexibility, independent thinking, and intrinsic motivation when taught with interactive, problem-based, and technology-enhanced methods as compared to traditional reproductive approaches for students. It is proved that the formation of creativity is based on the psychological environment support and the purposeful organization of the educational process. This study connects theoretical perspectives on creativity with applied computer tools in the context of engineering education, giving prominent status to specialized creativity as a key component of professional competence. These findings indicate that a modernization of curricula, use of digital technologies to design instruction, and adequate preparation of educators who can implement innovative-oriented learning environments.