Analyzing Key Tools for Digital Transformation of Educational and Scientific Organizations

Digital technologies are actively developing currently, and educational organizations can no longer stand aside. Digital transformation has affected almost all spheres of life, from daily tasks and work processes up to complex medical interventions, etc. A new job market requires new level specialists, and it is impossible to prepare them unless radical changes in the personnel training are made. Educational digitalization, the ICT use in the educational process, and the creation of new campuses generation indicate the urgent need for the higher educational institutions to be digitally transformed. Digital transformation is not just the interactive whiteboards appliance or the electronic class-book usage. It implies a systematic change in key processes that could lead to the creation of a perfect new education system, which allows the preparation of people, able to learn and retrain without spending much time on this. This article analyzes the key tools for higher educational institutions digital transformation. The key ways of using the toolkit are highlighted, as well as its implementation effect. Further study stages are also presented. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.