Digitization of the Russian Educational Space in the Context of Guarantees of the Constitutional Right to Education

Abstract

The relevance of the research topic is predetermined by significant changes in the domestic and world educational space. Modernization of educational technologies, the emergence of an electronic library resource, the active use of the information and communication network Internet in the educational process expands the possibilities for the realization of the right to education, makes it accessible regardless of the place of residence and the material status of students. At the same time, the Russian regulatory and legal framework of the educational process at the higher education level is universalized for any educational programs, regardless of the form of their implementation and the educational technologies used, which results in the refusal of many higher education institutions from distance educational technologies. The article summarizes the domestic practice in the application of distance learning, analyzes the positions of the leading researchers on the issues examined. The authors offer their forecasts regarding the future development of digital technologies in the higher education segment of the Russian market of educational services. The article grounds the need to differentiate the requirements of the Federal state educational standards depending on the methods and forms of implementing educational programs, simplifying the requirements for conducting practices, current and intermediate monitoring of learning outcomes, and material and technical support when using distance higher education. Proposals are made to improve the methodological support and legal regulation of the implementation of educational programs using digital technologies.