MODERNIZATION OF EDUCATION IN CONDITIONS OF DIGITAL ECONOMY

Abstract

The article discusses the need for modernization of education in the digital economy, which leads to the task of training highly qualified specialists of the new time, who must possess a number of digital competencies, that contribute to the formation of a modern person as a “person of a new formation” with creative thinking and who capable of being competitive in the information space. For solving the problem of the shortage of qualified specialists in the field of the digital economy, it is necessary to increase the number of graduates of educational institutions of higher and secondary professional education in the areas of training related to information and telecommunication technologies, and to increase the proportion of the population with digital skills and information technologies. All this requires modernization, digitalization of the Russian educational system, the transition to an electronic form of training, as well as online courses, webinars aimed at training and retraining personnel for the digital economy, which is capable to organize the effective use of digital technologies for solving the problems of organization optimization and management.