The question of teaching staff readiness to digitalize the educational process is considered in this paper. Digital education is a prerequisite for training of specialists meeting the requirements for the XXI century digital economy. There are a number of challenges in introducing digital learning, including those in engineering education. Digitalization of the technical subject area is very costly process that has its own specifics and requires developers to possess not only professional competencies related to a particular discipline, but also to be advanced in the arear of information and communication technologies. Besides modern teaching and laboratory facilities, and computer systems for various purposes, an important condition for promoting of digitization in subject teaching is teaching staff willingness to improve their teaching skills along with fluency in modern digital technologies. 
 As an example of subject teaching, in this paper are considered informatization and digitalization of basic geometric and graphic training for students at technical higher education institutes. The analysis is carried out from the point of view related to preparation of the academic teaching staff for creation and implementation of the educational environment that meets the requirements for dynamically developing design as a type of engineering activity. The scheme for realization of mixed learning has been presented, which introduction is determined by students' individual work implementation, and the process of students' online geometric-graphic training during self-isolation for COVID-19 prevention has been described. An analysis of teacher's activity content increase in the full online training mode has been carried out. Has been presented a set of practical measures acting to raise the chair’s teaching staff qualification and providing readiness to solving urgent problems of students’ learning through the digital educational environment. 
As a conclusion of the study, it is stated that in digitalization conditions the most successful form for implementing of basic geometric and graphic training is the form of blended learning.

To the Question of Teaching Staff Readiness to Digital Training

The availability of the material and technological capabilities of modern information and communication technologies in the field of education allows, on the one hand, to realize the creative potential of each teacher in creating such tools as educational and methodological complexes, applications, simulators, educational games, and so on, significantly changing the pedagogical tools, and on the other hand, the expanding range of newly created teaching aids causes an urgent need for an adequate assessment of their impact on learning outcomes. The purpose of the work is to evaluate the effectiveness of using the simulator program for independent studies of students in the discipline "Descriptive geometry". The work used such research methods as questionnaires using Google Forms, testing, timing, statistical data processing, comparison of control and experimental groups, construction of bar and pie charts, SWOT analysis. In the process of pedagogical research, the following platforms and programs were used: LMS Moodle, Microsoft Excel, an original simulator program for the development of students' spatial thinking. It has been established that the developed simulator program for the development of spatial thinking of students of engineering specialties studying the discipline "Descriptive Geometry" allows increasing students' interest in mastering the topics of the discipline, favorably affects the formation of skills for constructing orthogonal projections of a point, reducing the time for solving problems on this topic by 40% and also positively affects the degree of adequacy of students' self-assessment. It has also been established that to check in a semi-automatic mode 80 reports of students on the implementation of individual tasks in the simulator program, the teacher will spend only about 30 ... 40 minutes of his time. At the end of the article, ways to improve the simulator program are given and directions for further research are outlined.

Performance evaluation of simulator by curriculum «descriptive geometry»

The development of information technology has given a significant impetus and progress both for various industries and life, as well as for education. The national program "Digital Economy of the Russian Federation" provides for ensuring the introduction of digital technologies in the economy and social sphere, and is associated with the National Project "Education (2019-2024)", which includes the Federal Project "Digital Educational Environment" based on the introduction of the target model of modern digital technologies into educational programs. Innovative methods and forms of training create a strategy for the professional training of specialists, and computer visibility of the forms of the part gives an idea of the assembly technology, allows you to perform competent drawings. The purpose of the study is to analyze the methods of solving the problems of descriptive geometry and engineering graphics together with the use of methods of surface formation by geometric methods, as well as on the basis of basic CAD operations COMPASS-3D. 
In modern high school, in most cases, drawing is not studied, or only the most general concepts and definitions are studied. The existing course of school computer science deals only with general issues and practically does not give skills in drawing and modeling. As a result, applicants for the most part come to a technical university unprepared for the normal perception of geometric and graphic disciplines. In this regard, two priority tasks of further informatization of engineering education at the technical university have been formulated. On the one hand, this is the improvement of the methodology for teaching geometro-graphic disciplines, including in distance learning. On the other hand, it is the involvement of schoolchildren in various Olympiads and competitions held on the basis of technical universities to develop the initial skills of drawing and modeling simple objects.

H. Damchaasuren

Papers

Introduction of Electronic Technology into Education