One of the key problems of modern higher education is the development of programs and teaching methods relevant to the conditions of the digital educational environment, characterized by openness, variability, multiculturalism, polymodality and dynamism. At the same time, the question of the psychological readiness of teachers for activities in the new conditions comes to the fore. The article gives a brief overview of the works on the issue of readiness. The predictors of the university teachers’ readiness for activities in the electronic informational and educational environment are described. The role of the variative and invariant aspects of teachers’ readiness for changes in the system of higher education is shown. A model of the university teachers’ readiness for professional activities in the context of digitalization of education is proposed, which includes selfregulatory, motivational, value-semantic, and operational components; possible methods for diagnosing these components are described.

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Current trends in engineering training methodology are based on the use of information technology. The perspective direction is application of remote forms of education in the electronic educational environment of higher education institution. The efficiency of additional professional education consists in use of modern software products for ensuring remote access to educational resources. At the same time, software products have to have certain criteria: functionality, reliability, stability, multimedia, usability, modularity, ensuring access, quality of support, etc. To all these criteria fully there corresponds the Moodle software product which is used for implementation of programs of professional retraining of engineering shots in "The Systems of Automation of Management in Power" and "Systems of Automation and Management in the Oil and Gas Industry" directions in the electronic educational environment of the Amur state university. Professional retraining with use of LMS Moodle allows to expand possibilities of receiving educational services, to thereby provide realization of basic provisions of the Federal law "About Education in the Russian Federation". 2. Relevance, literature review Concept EEE is considered in many works [3-10]. The electronic educational environment of the university is called the uniform information and education space constructed by means of integration of the educational and training information, computer and telecommunication technologies of