The paper deals with current essential problems of mobile digital education provision with high-quality aids and the challenges of online training of IT specialists. Based on the recent studies review and educational practice analysis, the urgency of our research related to the problems of dropping students' motivation to learn and necessity to find out efficient ways to involve them into active and practically significant kinds of learning activities is revealed. Taking into account the great potential of mobile didactic aids and benefits of their using in the educational practice, the attempt to implement the projectbased learning (PBL) strategy and engage the students of IT majors with development of practically meaningful projects within the "Mobile technologies"online course has been undertaken. Accordingly the purpose of the work is to highlight the branches of project themes, characterize the stages and the results of students' work. The preliminary analysis of the impact of such an activity on the students' learning motivation has been also provided. The preparation stage of the survey on the estimation of the students' motivation as an impact of PBL implementation has been provided. The survey consists of 20 items comprising 4 subsections corresponding to the amount of the revealed motivation dimensions (attention, appealing to learner's past experience, positive attitude, and satisfaction). To obtain preliminary results and test the designed survey reliability, it was conducted in groups of future IT specialists who completed the online course "Mobile technologies". The acceptable reliability of the scales has been proven. According to the score intervals, four levels of motivation were distinguished. The results of the survey, according to the levels of students' motivation, are presented and discussed. The results of the authors' observations according to the monitoring program have been also given and discussed. It has been concluded that the obtained results of the conducted survey and our monitoring program might be used potentially as a basis for carrying out comprehensive empirical research for the verification of the impact which the proposed PBL can make on the level of students' motivation. It is planned to widen respondents' range to generalize the survey results and to expand it by specifying the changes caused by the introduced methods, which makes a prospect of our work. © 2023 Copyright for this paper by its authors.
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