Use of digital technologies in professional training of masters of physical culture

The transition of the modern economy to Industry 4.0 forces the main branches of the state's life to adapt to the realities of modern digitalization. This entails digital transformations in all areas, including the field of physical culture and sports. The article analyses the experience of digital transformation in the field of education in general, and in organizations in the field of physical culture and sports, in particular. The authors studied the experience of an educational organization of higher education in training personnel in the field of digital competencies. The research objectives were to identify competencies aimed at the formation and development of digital competence of future specialists in the field of physical culture; to substantiate the levels of the development of this competence; to identify digital services, the use of which will allow students to develop their digital competence; to develop methodological recommendations on the use of digital technologies in the performance of individual tasks performed by students. To solve the research tasks, the methods of analysis of the normative base of the issue under study, analysis of the literature and generalization were used. The landmarks of digital transformation were studied, normative documents were analyzed, the analysis and generalization of studies on the topic of digital transformation of education in the field of physical culture were carried out, the experience of organizing higher education in training personnel for the field of physical culture and sports with digital competence was studied. As a result, a competence was identified that enables to master digital competence by students. The levels of the competence formation were determined. The authors developed guidelines where they recommended digital services, the use of which will allow students to develop their digital competence.