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Abstract: The present study acquaints the readers with flipped learning technology and the crucial role of the teacher in development of training programmes in the e-environment. The purpose of this article is to show how many aims the teacher should fulfil in the flipped learning. The flipped learning is the modern educational technology that turns upside down the classroom work and homework, the learners watch lectures at home and do their homework in class. The demand and popularity of this technology among foreign teachers is due to its flexible structure and the ability to adapt to any subject. The use of Internet applications and services to create homework contributes to raising interest and motivation among the students of the digital generation. The author emphasizes that the change of educational process increases not only the students’ extracurricular work, but also the teachers’ who are working in the flipped classroom. It has been established that the flipped learning is designed not only the developed professional competence, but also the developed information technology and methodological competencies. The enumerated competencies are important to distribute and structure the material between in-class learning and out-class learning in digital space. On the example of “Foreign language” discipline the structure of homework assignment is demonstrated. For the students’ convenience all the homework assignments were posted in the electronic educational environment Moodle. Free Internet applications and services for creating interactive content were described. The significance of the teacher in Higher Education is shown: he is an electronic courses designer, facilitator, moderator of the educational process, tutor and assistant in the transfer of knowledge to provide greater autonomy to students and to let them become subjects of the educational process.