AbstractThe immediacy of the problem research is due to the increased attention of the Russian government to the education issues, which is reflected in the National Doctrine of Education in the Russian Federation until 2025, where the digital education is defined as the general direction of the country; economic and socio-cultural development.The purpose of the article is to identify the digital education role in supporting the implementation strategy of saving the nation. The modern education is viewed as “soft power” from the actor-network and connectivism approaches; position in the modern society integration processes; as a way to achieve the goals of the national youth development in the global space of cooperation; as a functional mechanism that develops a digital society and overcomes the digital inequality; as a new type of the subject-subject interaction, provided by the subject continuous education in the field of telecommunication technologies, as well as the communication between subjects and social institutions; as the teaching staff training for the scientific and technological development of the society, which became digital in the 21st century.The leading method in the problem study was the educational practice reflection, which allows identifying the mechanisms of the digital education diversification and upgrading; to determine the degree of the digital product influence on the educational strategy realization; to evaluate the educational organizations; responsibility for the results, the quality of the subject education.As a result of the study, the authors will determine the cognitive barriers existing in the education practice which actualize the situation “here and now”, which contribute to the appeal to the digitalization phenomenon as a change in the thinking paradigm; to the study of the new technologies, the living projection of the virtual world with its inherent mutations and contradictions by the human subject; to creation the practice-oriented educational environment that can form competencies among students which allow the educational subject to be competitive in the labor market and in-demand in the global digital world.