Keyword: «multimodal learning»

The relevance of the article is due to the need to introduce global changes in the educational process of higher education institutions related to the transformational processes taking place in society. The aim of the article is to identify the problems that have arisen on the path of transformation of the educational process and propose ways to solve them. The leading approaches to the study of the problem are multimedia, system activity-oriented and contextual approaches. Using their principles has led us to the following results. Financial, organizational, psychological, infrastructural and substantive problems are highlighted, as well as the ways to solve some of them. Financial problems are related to the rapid pace of new projects implementation and the introduction of expensive digital technologies; organizational problems are related to the regulatory and legal support of the educational process; psychological problems are caused by discrepancies in the experience of working teachers and the potentials of digital technologies, as well as problems in the cognitive sphere of students; infrastructural problems are a consequence of financial problems and the advanced nature of innovative products as compared with the development of a regulatory framework governing activities with their use; meaningful ones are based on the search for a balance between traditional and innovative teaching methods. The theoretical significance of the article lies in the systematization of the main transformational trends currently taking place in the educational processes of higher education institutions. The practical significance of the article is due to identifying ways to solve these problems: creating conditions for the use of traditional teaching methods as fundamental and innovative as complementary; developing competences in the field of IT technologies; eliminating repetitions in the work of teachers by making changes in regulatory legal acts regulating paperwork at the university. The novelty of the research consists in comparing the potential of innovative products and methods with their use in solving specific problems that have arisen in the university educational process.