The University digital educational environment potential in the future teacher professional and personal development

Abstract The transition to digital education is associated with economic, political changes in society, as well as with changes in infrastructural, communicative, and cultural nature. The University digital educational environment role in a professional and personal development system is being updated. The "professional and personal development a future teacher" scientific and theoretical analysis concept made it possible to consider professional and personal development as a becoming a teacher dynamic process, which entails the subject inner essence transformation through the interaction of self-improvement motivation, professional orientation and competence, creativity, personality traits and activities. This study purpose was to study different approaches to understanding this category, disclosing its essence and structure, establishing the basic requirements for its organization. The main research question was in which case the digital educational environment provides professional and personal development, competitiveness formation, communicative equality, the future teacher social experience interactivity. The leading methods in the research were: theoretical and methodological analysis, scientific research interdisciplinary analysis, system analysis, pedagogical interpretation method, comparison, generalization, concretization; experience in organizing multi-level education study, questionnaires, testing. It is shown that a teacher at a university professional and personal development effectiveness largely depends on the students, teachers, the digital educational environment and various conditions’ optimal interaction.