This article investigates trends in the global educational community. Studied issues of the growing importance of intellectual work, based on the use of information resources on a global scale and the need for the implementation of operational communications between individual professionals, social and professional groups, communities, individuals, community organizations and states. Considers the role of information and communication in the development of society and the mechanisms for creating a single global information space within the world of education. Substantiates the competence to find information and use it in their work, to give a professional assessment of information requirements to the expert any profile.