ANALYSIS OF THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF GENERAL EDUCATION

The digital transformation of society, forced by the COVID-19 pandemic, has determined new processes in the socio-economic sphere. Foreign and domestic researchers are unanimous in their opinion that digitalization is the main trend of global development, and the need for digital transformation of education is caused by organizational, technological, managerial, economic and other changes taking place in various spheres of society, economy and production. Object of study: the process of digital transformation. Subject: general education. Objective: to identify the essence and characteristics of the implementation of processes of digital transformation in general education. Objectives: to analyze the essence and semantic understanding of the category "digital transformation"; to describe the types and structure of the main processes of digital transformation in general education. Methods: methodological approaches: system approach; research methods: theoretical (analysis of information sources; comparative study; content analysis; generalization, systematization). Conclusions: there is no unity in the scientific attribution of the concepts of "digitalization of education", "digital transformation of education"; analysis of the prospects of digital transformation of general education indicates that its main positive effects may be: ensuring equality of educational opportunities and continuity of education; updating the goals and content of education; optimization of forms, methods, teaching and methodological support of the educational process and learning and cognitive activities of students; creating conditions for personalized learning; increasing the effectiveness of quality control and monitoring; reducing the amount of routine work of management and teaching staff, etc; based on the analysis of scientific research, identified the problem of information security of electronic educational resources used in general education; an analysis of the current situation on the software market is presented, and general recommendations on the protection of data recorded in electronic educational resources are given