New didactic solutions in conditions of higher education digitalization

The development of digital technologies leads to increasing of their distribution and spread in various areas of everyday life. One of those areas is education. It endures impact of digitalization, while trying to develop students' competencies needed for life in a digital society, and to adapt the capabilities of digital devices to their interests and needs. Their using in pedagogical practice depends directly not only on the educational institutions, but also on the teacher himself. Universities have been interested in E-learning elements since the early 2000s, but COVID-2019 has urged many of them to step up their work, which resulted to active creation of an E-learning environment. At the same time, many teachers feel insecure in the digital educational environment, have a view of possibilities of digital media and programs, their advantages in organizing lectures, seminars, practical classes and homework. It is obvious that digitalization of education is the future of education, and therefore teachers need to be informed and enlightened. The purpose of this article is to analyze a number of didactic aspects in digital education applied to universities. The paper shows the advantages and threats of such educational technologies, and shows the features of their application in higher education using specific universal examples. The authors note that despite the abundance of theoretical works on this topic in the world, there are very few empirical studies comparing separate models of digital learning with traditional ones, and their results are very contradictory. However, although the higher effectiveness of distance learning is not clearly proven, traditional didactic practices in higher education need to be modernized, and digital concepts will be improved to overcome their shortcomings.