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Digitalization has embraced all aspects and institutions of modern society, including education. The widespread introduction of new information technologies in Russia; the change of formats for the presentation of educational information, as well as methods of broadcasting educational materials; the transformation of the role and priorities of academic disciplines; the emergence of online / offline access to methodological resources have already become a reality. There is an information-technological synthesis of tradition and innovations in the educational environment. The scientific and educational space "responds" to this digital challenge in education with diverse researchers’ reflections. These theoretical interpretations are aimed mainly at the consideration of certain aspects of digital education, for example, distance learning, open education, massive online courses, e-learning environment. In fact, we can state the fragmentary theoretical context regarding the phenomenon of education in the digital age. The author proposes methodological tools, on the one hand generalizing the array of theorizations of the phenomenon of education, including the digital context; on the other hand, allowing constructing a theoretical image of the education phenomenon, reflecting the main attributive characteristics of the latter in digital reality. Under the theoretical image of the education phenomenon, in the most general form, is meant a theoretical construct that serves as a synthesizing representative of real and / or potential theorizations of the education phenomenon, and acts, on the one hand, as a link between the researcher with his methodological preferences and heterogeneous theoretical ideas about the phenomenon of education; on the other hand, as a basis necessary and sufficient for the interpretation of the education phenomenon in the context of a certain type of scientific rationality. It is argued that this method of cognition of the education phenomenon in its theorizations (through the construction of theoretical images), allows you to fix the most significant attribute characteristics of the phenomenon under study, phasing out the concomitant ones.