Digitalization of the Russian Education System: Opportunities and Prospects

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to determine the current state, opportunities and prospects for the digitalization of the Russian system of (higher) education while maintaining the existing approach to state regulation of this process and developing a new (improved) approach to speed it up. For this purpose, in this study, a method is used to assess the degree of digitalization of the system of (higher) education. As a result, it was found that at present the greatest degree of digitalization is considered through the characteristics of additional indicators of the functioning of the system of (higher) education in modern Russia, such as the work of library resources, state and public control. At the same time, the degree of digitalization of the main indicators (educational and scientific activities of universities) is at a low level. At the same time, the digitalization infrastructure of the Russian system of (higher) education is sufficiently developed, which determines significant opportunities for the further development of this process. The final degree of digitalization of the Russian system of (higher) education is estimated at 25.8% and is very low. The reason for this problem lies in the insufficient state regulation of the process of digitalization of the Russian system (higher education).