The article discusses possible options for building an effective educational process in the context of a separate remote learning format. The promising areas of activity of educational institutions in terms of the implementation of the digital environment are determined and evaluated. The possibility of increasing the efficiency of the educational process as a priority task of modern society is analyzed.

The article discusses the experience of forming the foundations for professional creative activity of students, given the example of training specialists in educational institutions of secondary vocational education. The relevance of the issue is closely related to the introduction of foreign production technologies at domestic enterprises. The influence of the experience of participation of students in professional competitions on the formation of a creative personality is considered.