Digitalization challenges for engineering and transport education in Russia
The current trend in the development of education is digitalization, the transition from the traditional «classroom», offline learning model to online education. The formation of a global digital society has accelerated due to the coronavirus pandemic (COVID - 19), when a significant part of the world›s population, including students, are forced to work and study remotely. In this regard, the article considers the responses of Russian engineering and transport education to the modern challenges of digitalization. Interactive educational technologies related to online, digital, and elearning, visualization and gamification of education, implementation of network structures, new learning environments, and others are analyzed. Based on the assessment of the current state of Russian engineering and transport education, the key unsolved problems and directions of necessary changes are shown. In particular, the need for urgent development of the digital infrastructure of educational institutions, digital retraining of teachers and students, updating of specialties and directions taking into account changes in the labor market and digital learning opportunities, the formation of educational standards and programs based on fiexible educational trajectories, the development of the concept of continuing education, the introduction of artificial intelligence systems into the educational environment, etc. The solution of these problems requires legislative, organizational, administrative, technological, educational and methodological efforts of the state and society.