Digital transformation and methodological aspects of education

Abstract

The article studies the conceptual characteristics of education such as informatization, the impact of digital technologies on the goals, objectives and learning outcomes, the components of teacher's professional activity. The modern education system should be innovative marked by continuous education throughout life and self-education and the ability to update its structure in accordance with the requirements of society. New forms of education, in particular, those that implement “lifelong education”, are in demand in modern knowledge society, and the need for methods of educational and cognitive activities of educational subjects and their interaction in the information and educational space is increasing. Since the development of the lifelong education system implies the development and expansion of its constituent parts and the components of the methodological system of education through interaction with the content of the information and educational environment, education must develop and become informationally qualitative, corresponding to the level of the information society. The article emphasizes that in the digitalization and informatization educational system, goals, content, forms, and methods of teaching academic disciplines should be changed. The task of the methodology of education is to study the qualitative and quantitative impacts of digital technologies on the content of the information and educational environment, student’s personality and socioculture of the subject of education. The readiness of a teacher for professional and pedagogical activities in the information and educational environment is considered as professionally and personally significant qualities and ICT competencies. The teacher should creatively solve problems that arise in the educational and cognitive activities of students, be ready for qualitative changes in society and education influenced by digital technologies