Problems of Digitalization of Education in the Context of the COVID‑19 Pandemic

—The article is devoted for the analyze of problems of digitalization of education in the context of the COVID ‑ 19 pandemic Information base was taken from the results of surveys of university teachers and students of several universities and monitoring data, foreign university experiences and personal practices. The main problems of transition to on-line education were defined on the base of analyses of all the data. In details we studied the information which show the reasons for being not ready for such type of education both for students and teachers. The authors underline the importance of emotional intellect which working in on-line format. It was found out that many aspects of involvement in studying are connected with the age of professors and that might be taken into consideration. One of threats of transferring to digital education was defined as loss of specialists who take part in education and don’t have enough level of computer competitions. This leads to the reduction of educational quality. The authors suggested several variants for decreasing the risk of threats. Testing the proposed variants has proven the practical application of the proposed approach for saving academical potential. The methodology proposed by the authors is made according with new educational standards and higher economic efficiency of educational process.