The modern higher education system lags far behind the re-quirements of the labor market and demands of consumers of educational services. This has been especially evident recently when digital tools have penetrated widely into all areas of human activity. A significant re-duction in the time lag of the technological digital wave prevented rep-resentatives of several generations of knowledge holders from adapting to the demands of digital reality consumers. The COVID-19 pandemic was a catalyst that, in a shortened period, transferred the education pro-cess into an online environment. All the restrictions that supporters of the traditional model considered an obstacle to the digitalization of education in an instant became unsustainable. The authors of the article prove that the future of education lies in the formation of a hybrid educational en-vironment that permeates the entire vertical and horizontal of the indi-vidual trajectory of development of a human of the future. © 2021 CEUR-WS. All rights reserved.