摘要:Among the contradictions of technological, organizational and methodical areas in modern high school and some of the innovations that are designed to resolve these contradictions the article justifies a conclusion in favor of the using electronic textbooks. The results of the online resources analysis for identifying modern electronic textbook and features of the creation and using such electronic resources are showed. The trends are marked. Authors briefly present their own experience in creating an electronic textbook, which is being tested in Sumy State Pedagogical University named after A.S. Makarenko. Authors made a conclusion that among the main tasks of modern teacher training we have to think not only about the acquisition of factual knowledge on the subject and the ability to improve his own knowledge, but also about understanding of the physical principles of operation for the devices supporting using electronic textbooks and methods of their using in the educational process. In addition, article is pointed on need to provide the acquisition of elementary programming hypertext skills and using various multimedia tools in future teachers preparation what will contribute among other the formation their ICT competence.