Using digital technologies to train new generation employees against the background of problems accompanying the formation of an innovative educational environment

Abstract

The young generation's ability to perceive and process information boosts the use of digital technologies in personnel training. While stressing the importance of digital technologies and their comprehensive penetration into daily living activities, we find it a must to identify and measure their contribution into teaching methods and forms. Present-day economic problems impact the staffing; therefore, we need the triggers that may improve the production efficiency. The present-day pace of life features an intensive renewal of social, economic, and political processes, and such distinctive features, typical for the young generation, as mobility and intensive learning capabilities, help young people to get accustomed to the present-day environment, to get integrated into the structure of social relations and organizational changes. Digital technologies become vital for the educational environment as they help to adjust to these transformations and to boost this breakthrough by fulfilling the functions of reproduction, innovation, and transmission.These issues were brought up within the framework of a sociological survey, launched at several Moscow institutions of higher education. According to its findings, many young respondents use digital technologies to communicate and to study, although they believe that no complete virtualization of their education is expedient.