Perspective Directions of Expanding the Use of New Technologies in Higher Education

Abstract

The purpose of the work is to substantiate the perspective directions of expanding the use of new technologies in higher education in modern Russia. In order to determine the effect from using new technologies in the sphere of higher education, we use the method of regression analysis, which allows determining the regression dependence and determination of human development index, calculated by the United Nations Development Programme (as the indicator of development of the higher education sphere) and the index of digital economy, calculated by the International Telecommunication Union (as the indicator of development of technologies) for 2012–2017. The works also uses the method ofд SWOT analysis, with the help of which the authors determine the problems and perspectives of expanding the use of new technologies in higher education, and the method of analysis of causal connections and the method of graphic interpretation of authors’ conclusions and recommendations. As a result, the authors substantiate that development of modern technologies is quicker than modernization of higher education. At present, implementation of these technologies has limited character, which does not allow realizing their potential in full. In order to solve the actual problems of the Russian higher education, the authors offer perspective directions of using new technologies. Implementation of these directions will allow for full-scale technological modernization of the Russian sphere of higher education. At that, the landmark is the developed and presented proprietary model of a modern university which emphasizes the fundamental role of new technologies in development of a modern university, which is an open and dynamically developing system that is in harmony with market environment.