INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN EDUCATION

Abstract

The article explores the potential of digital technologies in education, for organizing classroom activities and virtual learning in the educational environment. The distinctive features of educational platforms for the retraining of specialists, in-depth study of any disciplines, or vice versa for obtaining initial information and knowledge on the directions of interest in education are determined. The purpose of the study is to analyze the potential of digital and information and communication technologies in the educational process and obtain continuous education. Digital and information and communication technologies allow you to organize active learning and remotely share data from different locations. It is established that educational platforms most effectively support the concept of continuous education, and allow overcoming the space-time boundaries complicating the acquisition of competitive education in leading educational organizations. Using digital and information and communication technologies, students can collect, integrate and present information, creating multimedia projects using programs such as PowerPoint, HyperStudio, Adobe Photoshop, iMovie, Vimperor and iPhoto. With the help of informationcommunication and digital technologies, students are given the freedom to choose an individual trajectory, acquire the ability to work at personal pace, mode, provide individualization of instruction, in which each student works at the level of his abilities. The urgency of the use of digital technologies for the improvement of the distance learning system in the educational organization of higher education based on the means of educational platforms is substantiated