SOME ASPECTS OF THE IMPACT OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES ON THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS OF HIGHER EDUCATION: AN OVERVIEW OF PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES

Abstract

Pedagogical practice has been significantly influenced by the progress of science and technology over the past few decades, at the same time, the education system in recent years had to quickly and actively respond to the challenges posed by the Covid19 virus pandemic and the Russian-Ukrainian war. Ultimately, the integration of digital technologies into teaching and learning opens up significant potential for higher education institutions, but it has also created new challenges for teachers due to their ability to implement new forms of education in a digital environment. Digital learning takes many forms, including distance learning, active learning, collaborative learning, games, simulations, and more. At the same time, the implementation of new requirements and opportunities provided by advanced digital tools requires working in a group context, students discussing each other's ideas, engaging in full cooperation in problem definition, design, etc. The conducted research shows that the improvement and development of informatization and computerization of the educational process requires solving the following tasks: development of the material base - providing access to subjects of the educational process to work with modern technical and software; improvement of methodology - selection of methods and methods for effective use of digital technologies in the educational process; ensuring active communication - communication of all participants in the educational process by means of digital technologies and new ways of using them in educational activities. The main pedagogical goals of using digital technologies in the professional training of future bachelors of secondary education are the development of the student's personality, preparing him for a comfortable life in the conditions of a digital society, in particular, the development of different types of thinking and communication skills; implementation of the social order in accordance with the needs of the information society and the stage of its informatization; intensification of all levels of the educational process and increasing the efficiency and quality of the educational process due to the realization of the entire didactic potential of digital technologies; ensuring increased motivation to study through computer visualization of information, opportunities for interactive interaction of subjects of the educational process.