Abstract
The article defines the essence of digitization of higher education, reveals the main advantages and problems of this process. Different scientists’ approaches to compare the concepts of «digitization», «digitalization», «digital transformation» have been covered, own author’s position on their correlation has been analyzed. The main advantages of digitalization of higher education have been identified, its top trends (artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, gamification, internet of things, blockchain), which allows to increase the efficiency of learning process, to intensify the development of students’ motivation, have been characterized. It has been established that digitalization is accompanied by the emergence of significant problems as a large-scale character (dehumanization of social relations; deepening the crisis of the intellectual culture of people, etc.), and at the level of an educational institution (weakness and poor thoughtfulness of the strategy of the educational institution digitalization; lack of awareness of administration representatives and teachers about the wide array of digital technologies, the lack of practical skills of teachers in the successful use of these technologies; leveling the function of students’ socialization by reducing the amount of their live communication with other people, etc.).
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