The article provides a comparative analysis of traditional and innovative organizational forms of education in the higher education institutions. New forms of educational activity with the use of ICT tools (network interaction, multimedia lecture, online lecture, slide lecture, distance learning, electronic seminars, webinars, case technology, forum, e-mail consultation, computer testing, telecommunication project, group projects on wiki technology, joint blogging, etc.). In the article we opened didactic possibilities of application of innovative organizational forms in educational process. The peculiarity of the application of electronic lecture and its types (online-lecture, slide-lecture, video-lecture, combined lecture; laboratory works with the use of computer and appropriate software; independent work on informatics; network interaction and its resources (teleconference, chat, WWW) (World Wide Web), e-mail, FTP, blog), online communities and forms of educational activities (educational teleconference, off-line conference or virtual conference, chat, training workshop, virtual learning with the help of the pedagogical community, educational competition, joint creation of web pages, virtual survey of students, educational virtual project, virtual party, master class on a specific topic, design seminar, project festival, etc.), distance, blended learning and their software.