“…Informal education, carried out by means of self-controlled search and analysis activities in electronic libraries, videohostings, topical communities of social networks; entering into consultative communication and discussions with members of virtual communities; as well as self-initiated digital story-telling, blogging, reposting by means of hash tags; generation of digital content (video streaming, screencasts, infographic, diagrams, presentations, articles) regarding the issue under study or the task of the educational activity being solved. Th e third change has occurred due to the expanding access to information (the so-called "knowledge clouds" and "communication clouds") and the rapid changes in educational technologies, as evidenced by the papers of W. Bowen (Bowen, 2014), J. Ramaley (Ramaley, 2014), F. Fatkullina, E. Morozkina, A. Suleimanova (Fatkullina et al, 2015), P. Altbach (Altbach, 2013), and others. It should be noted that due to the rapid development of information technology, modern teachers working in higher education face the necessity to adapt the existing educational practice without having clear instructions that take into account students' topical needs and the potential of new technologies and means.…”