Abstract
The article examines the experience of higher education educational organizations of the Russian Federation in the development and implementation of digital tools and services to form equal access to educational content. The Anti-Crisis Measures adopted by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation to regulate the higher education sector are being evaluated to ensure that education is accessible and that the learning process is stopped during the COVID-19 pandemic.Over the past few months, studies in higher education on the quality of digital solutions used and their adequacy during the spread of the pandemic of the new COVID-2019 coronavirus infection and the transition mainly to remote forms of educational services show a low degree of readiness to provide equal access to education and reflect the risks of social conflict. It is important to ensure the digital readiness of higher education organizations to provide quality educational services through the introduction of advanced domestic programs and technologies, including those with elements of artificial intelligence; training of teachers and the administrative staff of educational institutions. Particular attention is paid to ensuring access to education in the subjects of the Russian Federation, where students and entrants face difficulties in remotely studying national languages and national culture. The study proposes to consider, among other things, support for the creation and implementation of online educational courses in the languages of national minorities, the expansion of e-library services containing unique cultural and language content, taking into account the specifics of the region’s learners.
Highlights
With the active development of globalization[1] and the proliferation of information and communication technologies, the higher education sector has undergone significant changes in recent years
The first direction is the practical monitoring of the accessibility of education to ethnically heterogeneous groups in the subjects of the Russian Federation and national minorities in particular, for this purpose was conducted a sociological study in the regions with a list of questions on the availability, convenience and quality of training in a remote form, under the conditions of COVID-19
According to the studies carried out in conjunction with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, the following results were obtained among higher education organizations between March and May 2020
Summary
With the active development of globalization[1] and the proliferation of information and communication technologies, the higher education sector has undergone significant changes in recent years. In the Russian Federation, the number of Internet users in the period prior to the spread of the new coronavirus infection was estimated at between 110 million and 118 million. This means that 79% - 81% of the country's citizens [2,3] - use the Internet. High participation of the population in the information and communication environment (on average, Russian citizens spend 7 hours 17 minutes on the Internet, for comparison - in Japan 4 hours and 22 minutes) raises questions of readiness of the state, and of existing social and industry institutions, to ensure equality of opportunities and accessibility of education throughout the country. The quintessence of the process of ensuring equality of opportunity in the context of mass informatization of the educational process and the transition to digital transformation of the education sector are several factors and, states that need to be defined at the current, transitional stage of the higher education system
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