New educational trends and challenges. Determination of the level of digital competence

The development of information technology leads to a change in old paradigms in all areas. The state and employers set new requirements for specialists, such as digital competencies (DC). The article presents the results of a study of the general interest and interest of the academic community in the DC. Additionally, we made a primary analysis of the existing methods of DC level detection, presented in the Russian-language academic (RLA) literature within 2015-2020 in the work. In preliminary the work conclusion was estimated that this issue has not been considered enough in RLA.