Flipped classroom technology and its implementation at various levels of higher education

The fourth industrial revolution influences the system of education requiring abilities and competencies that go beyond what has traditionally been taught in the classroom. The main concern is the social nature of learning and the ability to collaborate using digital technologies. It also results in some general shifts in the world of learning - lifelong learning - from childhood, to continuous learning in the workplace. Foreign language as an academic subject has a great potential to meet the needs of industry 4.0 as it is taught at all levels of education. There are a lot of modern technologies of teaching languages: teaching in cooperation, project method, modular and blended learning. In this article we will focus on the Flipped classroom technology at different levels of education: bachelor, master, postgraduate training. The advantages and limitations of using this method at different levels are revealed. We provide an overview of information technologies that can be used to implement this method. Guidelines are given on how to ensure the technological continuity of the educational process, using the Flipped classroom, to develop students ' readiness for different ways of knowledge transfer. The authors describe the flipped class model and experience of using the flipped classroom technology teaching English at bachelor's, master's and advanced training courses at the South Ural State University.