The main objectives of the Institute are to develop strategies of the University's policy in the field of using new educational information, communication and audiovisual technologies (ICAT) in educational and research activities; development and implementation of new educational and methodological complexes in the educational process; organization of a system of training and retraining of teaching staff to work using ICAT, research of the impact of ICAT on the quality of knowledge acquisition by conducting a comprehensive experiment; development and implementation of new projects of classrooms equipped with computer and audiovisual equipment.