Nowadays there is a steady trend to introduce distance learning, create and support the IT infrastructure in education systems, and develop electronic educational resources in Kazakhstan. Given that, the creation of electronic and digital educational content in the social and humanitarian disciplines, and the formation of motivation to study the fundamentals of the social and humanitarian sciences are the important tasks in the country’s higher education system.

The article is devoted to the process of researching the effectiveness of the application and preparation of electronic and digital resources in social and humanitarian disciplines at the Almaty University of Power Engineering and Telecommunications named after Gumarbek Daukeev.

During study, the authors relied on theoretical and applied research in the field of digital technological applications of foreign and native researchers.

According to the authors, the replenishment of library collections and their reorientation, taking into account electronic digital resources, are an important component of modern higher education.

In the course of the study of problems and prospects for the development of electronic resources, the effectiveness of the use and preparation of digital educational content and solving problems related to the identification of motivation and specifics of students' perception of electronic resources, general scientific research methods were used, such as analysis and synthesis, comparison, experiment, as well as methods of questioning and interviewing among the teaching staff and students of universities in Almaty.

The authors concluded that despite certain difficulties and costs, electronic resources are an important element of modern education and require investment of certain funds, permanent updating of their content, thus making them more popular for the consumer.