The digital age is presented in the context of significant civilizational and educational changes. The changes that have taken place in the understanding of the essence of man and in the definition of actions that affect the process of his existence are considered. As well as changes related 1) education as a specially organized purposeful socialization and acculturation of man; 2) pedagogical activity and reveal a new approach to understanding the essence of the process of cognition and determining the direction of the motives of pedagogical creativity; 3) pedagogical interaction as a two-way process; 4) global destabilization of the socio-economic reality caused by the COVID-19 pandemic; 5) globalization as a consequence of the development of the information society.

Continuing pedagogical education in the digital age is characterized as lifelong learning and the process of prolonged assimilation of sociocultural experience, professional knowledge and skills. This process includes preparatory (vocational), basic (vocational), postgraduate (vocational) stages. The research focused on the last two stages. Foreign and Ukrainian practices organized in higher pedagogical education institutions and in postgraduate pedagogical education institutions are described as responsive to the development and modernization of information and communication infrastructure, information and communication technologies, means of dissemination of information products and information flows. Various aspects of the use of information and communication technologies in the modern educational process aimed at the formation of information and communication competence of future teachers, and various foreign and domestic practices of teacher training to expand their skills are considered.

Keywords: digital era, continuous pedagogical education, information and communication technologies, information and communication competencies, institutions of higher pedagogical education, institutions of postgraduate pedagogical education, advanced training.

Miyer T., Holodiyk L., Savosh V., Bondarenko H., Dubovyk S., Romanenko L., Romanenko K. Usage of information and communication technologies in foreign and ukrainian practices in continuing pedagogical education of the digital era. AD ALTA. Journal of Interdisciplinary Research. 2021. Vol. 11. Issue 2. Special XХ. P. 35–39.