Rasylya R. Aetdinova

Changes in the labor market and the priority of human capital formation give universities a new task – professional development of the student, implying skills of working in a multicultural environment, expanded digital competences. The increase in the share of foreign students and the difficulties associated with their adaptation and improvement of the quality of training, also increases the importance of the formation of multicultural digital space of the university. The aim of this study is to analyze the potential of the multicultural digital space of the university in the context of the growth of the digital component of the educational process. The methodological basis of the study includes methods of the general scientific level (inductive deductive analysis, concretization and generalization) and methods of the specific scientific level (systematization and generalization of concepts). The study analyzed the concepts of the multicultural environment and multicultural space, and compared them. On the basis of the analysis, the article shows the importance of using the potential of multicultural educational space at the present stage of Russian higher education development, highlights its essential characteristics. The author defines the stages of digitalization in accordance with the stages of computer development, examines the problems of digitalization of education, finds out the factors that determine the need to use the potential of the multicultural educational space, shows the relationship between the digital and multicultural spaces, the prospects of the multicultural digital space use. She also notes the components of the multicultural digital space, which are important for the development of the multicultural digital personality: multicultural teachers of “digital university”, multiculturally oriented students, centers for multicultural education in combination with centers for the development of digital literacy at the university. The analysis of the stages of digitalization development from the point of view of the development of computers, the problems of digitalization form the basis of the theoretical significance of the study. The identified components of the multicultural digital space, which can be used by universities to develop the potential of these spaces, have practical value.