Individual Educational Program as a Tool to Personalize Education

The article deals with the introduction and implementation of individual educational programs in higher education on the example of ITMO University. In today’s higher education, there are new trends towards personalization of learning, the quality of the educational process organization coming to be understood correspondingly. The purpose of this article is to analyze the role of individual educational programs in the context of improving the quality of higher education. The article describes the stages and mechanisms of education transformation at ITMO. Education individualization at ITMO is based on the «ITMO code», on soft skills formation, and on accompanying digital solutions, as well as on systems to support and develop the teaching staff ’s competencies. The authors show opportunities for education personifi cation at ITMO and ways for its further development. The article may be of interest to managers and management teams of higher education institutions, as well as to higher education researchers.