Digital university: transformation of education in the era of the sixth technological paradigm

Nowadays, digitalization is becoming an integral part of education, and the Digital University is an innovative model that reflects important trends in education. This article explores the importance and relevance of the Digital University concept, identifies its key principles and benefits, and reviews the experiences and discusses the challenges faced by educational institutions in implementing digital technologies. The pandemic interest in digital technologies and the shift towards distance learning has clearly demonstrated the diversity of the latter and its active use by educators and directly by educational organizations. It is important to rethink the very approach to the use of digital technologies in education on the basis of experience and existing practices of application, problems and limitations that have arisen in the course of the use of digital university models and their content. The practical significance of this study is related to the development of a holistic and balanced concept of the digital university for further analysis of the university as a whole, not only in terms of the application of digital services and tools directly in the educational process. The digital university is becoming a powerful tool that contributes to the global development of education, expanding access to knowledge and stimulating the intellectual growth of a new generation of students, preparing them for the challenges of the modern high-tech environment.