The article looks into some challenges that university teaching staff has to face during the modern era of digitalization and especially during the transaction period from “physical classroom” to “digital classroom” provoked by the pandemic of COVID-19. The use of information and communication technologies (hereinafter referred to as ICT), tools for online teaching and learning, computer and digital literacy, digital skills and competencies are becoming important components of professional success. The transition to distance learning (especially due to the pandemic of COVID-19) has changed the modern academic world: now the effective use of digital technologies and educational resources is considered a key factor for improving and increasing the value of the learning process. As a result, students get their knowledge and educators share their theoretical and practical experience through an increasing number of digital technologies and resources. This article aims to describe and analyze the main types of available online tools and services that may provide productive work and interactive learning; to describe the challenges that educators face while transforming the academic environment into “online classroom”. The authors applied a cabinet study approach to the analysis of theoretical database, the method of comparison and generalization of the obtained data. As a result, the article presents theoretical background of the ICT potential and their use in the educational process of modern universities.

The article presents a comparative analysis of theurgic activity in the works of three thinkers from the point of the generic understanding of theurgy as a “complete transformation of reality”. Despite the literal meaning of the term “theurgy”, according to all three thinkers, the indicated transforming influence is carried out by man and not by God. Although F. Nietzsche himself does not utilize the concept of theurgy, his theory of the Übermensch does fit into the framework of radical theurgic creativity since it presupposes a complete transformation of man carried out by himself, a change in his ontological nature. What is noted as a substantial similarity of the understanding of the transforming human activity by V. Solovyov and F. Nietzsche is that both thinkers view man as a product and the highest link of nature from which it follows that the highest calling of man is the transformation of not only himself but also nature. The difference lies in the fact that in Nietzsche’s view, the theurgic transformation is carried out by a person alone, through heroic effort. According to Solovyov, the main path of transformation of man and the world – the path of love – begins with a combination of two individuals and leads to conciliarity. In contrast, N. Berdyaev’s conception of theurgic creativity is distinguished by its radical transcendence, opposition to nature.