Recombination of the academic mobility format of higher schoolteachers in the context of digitalization of education

The paper addresses the need to revise the importance of academic mobility of the professorial and teaching staff in the conditions of digitalization processes in the educational sphere. Information technologies are placed at the top in the current economic and social conditions. In the age of the digital economy, innovative projects are being developed and implemented providing for the emergence of completely new specialities. Universities are shifting the directions of education towards the development of unique programs. The labor market shows the demand for highly competent specialists. For these reasons, the authors have set the goal of finding out the necessary degree of recombining the format of academic mobility of higher school teachers in the conditions of changed competence requirements for a university graduate. The digital economy strategy offers new approaches to the training; respectively, the qualification requirements for teachers are raising to a new level. The implementation of the academic mobility opens up a prospect for solving this problem. Academic mobility is aimed at conducting research or exchanging experience with scientists and teachers at the sites of other universities within the framework of professional development and obtaining new knowledge. The research method was the analysis of scientific papers and information platforms of universities, as well as the study of statistical data of analytical agencies in the field of education. The purpose of the study is implemented through joint educational projects with foreign colleagues The issue of academic mobility has recently been in the focus as a key aspect of the development of the scientific and professional community. In the course of the study, we found out that the teaching staff faced the problem of a lack of digital competencies in the training process. Many teachers may not have access (or may not be able to afford) to exchange methods and technologies.