Instructional design as a direction of modern didactics

The modern educational system reflects current social processes. Teachers’ design activities are traditionally viewed as planning the educational process and selecting the content of academic disciplines. However, in the context of social transformations and the intensive digitalization of education, this has changed the outcome, the quality of which is determined by independent learning activities. Based on an analysis of scientific literature, this article demonstrates that the acquisition of universal skills can occur in a comfortable educational environment. Comparing perspectives on the concept of «instructional design» allowed the authors to consider it within the framework of didactics as a form of organizing a comfortable educational environment for the development of individuality using modern technologies. It is argued that design and instructional design are not synonymous, as the products of these processes differ. The didactic foundations of designing and managing a results-oriented educational process, as well as the methodological foundations for organizing a comfortable educational system, are considered. Attention is drawn to the emergence of a new profession in the teaching profession – pedagogical designer, who assumes the functions of designing an educational model that shapes a methodological style of thinking. A comparison of the content of training programs in various forms of education made it possible to establish their focus on solving narrow pedagogical problems and to determine the prospects for developing the readiness of new teaching staff to solve innovative educational problems.