Analytical Review of Education Policies on Digital Transformation of School Education Worldwide

Abstract

The article reflects on the changes of educational landscape worldwide connected with the sustained development of society and introducing ideas of modernizing school education, as well as the “shock digitalization” triggered by the challenges of 2020. The aim of this research is to compare education policies of different countries in the field of digital transformation of school education by means of studying state programme documents on digitalization, and digital learning services and resources for students. The studied material includes open sources of information: articles, websites of state education authorities, content and tools of digital learning platforms and services available to registered users. The article features a characteristic of digital learning resources and services in the selected countries, a descriptive analysis of national policies and trends in digital transformation of education in each country. The authors have come to the following conclusions: school digital learning systems are used as a means of transporting values, languages, cultures and maintaining a unified learning space; school digital learning systems of different countries become interconnected due to the expansion of supranational digital learning resources and services, translation of learning content into different languages. The evolvement of the new model of school education is characterized by removed geographical and time barriers, openness of the learning process, customized training programmes, using mass network educational formats. To overcome the digital gap, measures are taken at different levels, from states to individuals who start their own educational blogs. Repositories of learning content are created in collaboration of users.