Problems and Perspectives of Informatization of the Russian Educational System and Development of Information Society

Abstract

Quick development of information technologies changes almost all aspects of social life of population and country’s economy. This process is inevitable, which is related to formation of the global technological market. However, underrun of the Russian educational system in the process of informatization and development of information society will lead to reduction of further rates of intellectualization of innovational products, communication interaction between the global subjects of the innovational and investment market, and integration of the national human capital into more developed information systems. According to these theses, the purpose of the article is to determine the main problems and perspectives of informatization of the educational system in the Russian Federation for further development of information society. Implementation of this goal supposes solving the following tasks: considering the theoretical basis of informatization of the Russian education and development of information society; determining peculiarities of emergence and further stage process of informatization of the Russian education; determining peculiarities of the organizational process of management of informatization of regional educational systems on the basis of program and project management; substantiating certain problems and perspectives of informatization of education and society in the RF. The methodology of the work includes historical, comparative, and analytical methods, as well as generalization and theoretical analysis. Scientific novelty of the research consists in joint study of the processes of informatization of the educational system and development of information society. The authors’ offers could be used for further research in the sphere of formation of a new model of information and technological development of the system of higher education.