The problem under study is acute due to rampant development of electronic education putting forward new demands to the arrangement of professional education of HEI students. The article makes a review of innovative means and technologies contributing to the perfection of instructional design of new-generation electronic educational environment. The work is based on the methods of theoretical and empirical investigations. It elicits and describes main features of teaching innovations having led to the changes in the structure, content and methods, forms and tools of teaching. The article determines the essence of didactic components within the context of teaching innovations and the role of electronic educational environment when they are introduced. The results of the research will be useful for the implementation of system changes in the educational process in conditions of the necessity to meet the requirements of up-to-date Federal State Educational Standards of Higher Education.