Digital Scientific and Educational Environment of the University: from Theory to Practice

Relevance. The use of digital tools has become a reality in all spheres of human activity in the last decade. The modern university has become a testing ground for technological innovations, in which digitalization is not only a managerial and scientific driver, but also a constant practice of educational relations.At the same time, the process of implementation and use of the digital scientific and educational environment is due to a number of circumstances (problems) that need to be overcome specifically in scientific interdisciplinary discourse: firstly, the ongoing discussions around the dyad “human - artificial intelligence” and the uncertainty of the boundaries of the co-evolving unity of its components; secondly, the existing request of the university community for their implementation and the infrastructural limitations of using digital tools in the educational environment of a particular educational institution.Therefore, the digital scientific and educational environment of the university remains the focus of close attention of researchers and the entire scientific community.The purpose is determine directions for improving the digital scientific and educational environment of a modern Russian university Objectives: characterize theoretical and methodological approaches to the creation and use of a digital scientific and educational environment; identify problems and prospects for implementing management practices for its implementation; to specify effective ways of innovative changes.Methodology. The methodological discourse is built in line with the main problem of our time ‒ the contradiction between the achievements of scientific and technological progress on the one hand and spiritual and moral culture on the other. The conceptual “portfolio” of the study is formed from the main provisions of social theories of educational management using quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection and analysis.Results. A theoretical "portfolio" of concepts and approaches has been defined that explain the sociocultural nature of the digital scientific and educational environment of the university. Based on empirical data based on surveys and expert assessments, the pros and cons of introducing digital technologies are identified and directions for their improvement are outlinedConclusions. Digitalization is an element of inevitable progress and transformation of all spheres of human activity. The digital scientific and educational environment of the university is intended to become a trigger for innovative changes in educational relations.