**1. Introduction**

The development of the system of economic education for students in technical areas involves the following in particular: taking into account the requirements of employers, compliance of domestic standards with foreign ones, creativity in teaching, and the use of electronic learning technologies.

The subject "Economic theory" is included in the block of humanitarian and socioeconomic disciplines that provide students of technical stream with the necessary competencies. There are two main problems in the teaching of economic theory in a technical university:


To solve these problems, the concept of practice-oriented teaching has been implemented at the Department of Economic Theory in recent years [1].

A necessary element in the implementation of the concept of practice-oriented learning is the use of electronic learning technologies.
