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In the context of information technology development of a society requirements to professional training of teachers and forming of their competencies are increasing. The need for provision of media education consistent with challenges of an information society, organization of pedagogues’ in the field of media education training, based on media needs of the youth, development of innovative approaches and implementation of effective media education models into all the segments of education has been emphasized. Informatization is becoming a leading trend in education modernization that causes the need for advancing a level of teachers’ training, as the latter should possess information technologies. Thus, special attention should be paid to implementation of new learning forms that presuppose the use of computer resources. Ukraine requires an intensive informatization of the education system. Quite urgent for Ukrainian education system is the implementation of new multimedia technologies into the educational process of primary, secondary, high schools and higher education institutions. So, teachers’ training for the use of multimedia technologies is a topical task of teacher education. Based on the analysis of native and foreign works dedicated to the problem of use of computer technologies it has been concluded that in different countries the potential of multimedia technologies has been used since the 1970s and 80s. The experiment on the implementation of multimedia technologies into the educational process was conducted; computer programs, textbooks and methodical recommendations for teachers were developed; main directions of school informatization were outlined; the staff problem was being solved; people’s adaptation to life in an information society was launched. In the 1990s education projects were realized, the need for education informatization was reflected on subject programs; general and specific trends in the development of education informatization in different countries were emphasized.