The article analyzes the experience of implementing higher education programs using distance technologies at I.N. Ulyanov State Pedagogical University in Ulyanovsk. It identifies the prospects for digitalization, as well as the design of the educational process of the university as a platform for coming up with individual educational trajectories of students using digital technologies. When carrying out the research, theoretical and empirical methods were used, the latter in the format of a questionnaire survey of 1st through 5th- year students and scientific and pedagogical workers of the university with subsequent content analysis. The main problems of digitalization of education are identified: the increased volume of teachers’ workload, technical problems, methodological problems, motivation and involvement of students, digital competence of all the parties involved in the educational process. The prospects for the development of digitalization at the university are outlined. They include: the creation of new educational content, the development of infrastructure and information environment, the introduction of distance technologies, online learning. All this inevitably leads to a change in traditional forms and methods of teaching, requirements for teachers and students, the expansion of project activities of students and remote additional education for children, the awareness of digital culture, psychological preparation for distance learning. The accumulation of educational content contributes to the individualization of education. The individual educational trajectories will be implemented in the elective content of curricula and the content of disciplines and practices. This can lead to pedagogical activity with the use of special pedagogical technologies, modernization of the organizational structure of the university. The research results can be used in the organization of the educational process at universities, the development of basic professional educational programs, curricula to meet the requirements of higher professional education.

educational process, educational environment, digitalization of education, distance educational technologies, individual educational trajectory