The rapid development of digital technologies has led to the transformation and modernization of the educational process, becoming the basis for significant changes in traditional teaching methods. Today, what is happening in the world – the pandemic – puts at the forefront a fundamental study of the issue of transferring education to digital format. The aim of this study is to present the results of research in the field of application of new technologies in higher education with special attention to mobile learning as a modern innovative approach and to determine the current situation and prospects for the application of mobile technologies in teaching. The authors take mobile learning as a promising vector of digital pedagogy, describe the advantages of using mobile learning technologies in the organization of the educational process and reveal the content of mobile applications in the educational process. The article also touched upon the shortcomings of mobile learning technologies in education. In addition, an overview of the history of mobile learning, an explanation of the term, problems of using mobile technologies in education and the course of its research were presented. Analyzing mobile applications, we present several applications used in training. In the course of the work, the results of a survey conducted to study and analyze the decisive factor for overcoming possible conflicts when using mobile learning in higher education were analyzed.