Digital Transformation of Higher Education Institutions in the Context of Digitalization of Society: Challenges and Prospects

The purpose of the article is to reveal the theoretical foundations of the process of digital transformation of higher education institutions in the conditions of digitalization of society; to determine and scientifically substantiate the organizational and pedagogical conditions for the formation of digital competence of future teachers. Research methods: analysis, synthesis and systematization of scientific literature on pedagogy, psychology, encyclopedic and reference, educational and methodological publications, information resources of the Internet - to clarify, compare and contrast approaches in the direction of the outlined problem. The article reveals and scientifically substantiates the theoretical foundations of the process of digital transformation of higher education institutions in the context of digitalization society, what it the reorientation of the modern teacher to the deep awareness of new, competitively oriented requirement for his professional activity: readiness for maximum use of digital tools, which increases the effectiveness of the educational process; implementation of remote educational innovations based on new opportunities digital technologies; mastering new teaching methods; creation digital space – climate with powerful potential for providing educational activities of the individual. Development of digital literacy of the society states identified as one of the priority tasks on the way to accelerated development of the digital economy, and digital competence is one of the dominative for almost every modern person to be successful in competitively oriented life creation and self-realization in the digital society. One of the challenges of the digitalized society is the readiness of the modern teacher to the digital transformation of the education process successfully and systematically applying high-tech achievement in professional activity. It is proved that information and communication technologies are aimed, first of all, for the development and improvement of the competences of future teachers, giving them competitive advantages: speed, namely, the dynamism of the cognitive activities, motivation (encouraging applicants for higher pedagogical education to independent mastering knowledge of the new); availability of information, which simplifies mastering the learning process; interdisciplinary content. Determined: successful formation of digital competence of future teachers can be effective in the implementation of organizational and pedagogical conditions, in particular: a set of stable motives in future teachers that express the orientation of the individual to master the digital competence; designing a digital educational environment through implementation of ICT, which is aimed at the successful solution of professional situation and tasks with high productivity; organization of optimal communicative interaction of all participant in the educational process on the subject-subject principles in the digital space.