Development of digital educational environment in higher education

The article discusses the actual problem of improving the system of distance learning in higher schools as an important area of training of specialists taking into account time and long-term challenges of the development of the country’s economy. It analyzes in detail all the advantages and disadvantages of modern digitalization of the educational process for training and retraining of specialists of a new formation for all areas of the economy of the Russian Federation and beyond. There are two main approaches to the digital economy: the classic approach, based on digital technologies, and the extended approach, which means economical production using digital technologies. The article gives modern concepts of “distance education”, “distance learning”, “online training”, “e-learning” and others that are often used as synonyms. It reflects features of the educational process based on the wide use of interactive and problematic teaching methods that allow students and specialists of different levels to acquire the skill of analysis of the used arrays of digital information for making effective management decisions. It considers various types of resources that used to improve the quality of educational processes: educational, personnel, functional and technical, the basic requirements for them in modern education are given as well. It describes measures to expand and deepen the use of the digital economy in education and other areas of professional activity