Digitalization of education in the leading universities of Saint Petersburg

International Scientific Conference "Digital Transformation on Manufacturing, Infrastructure and Service"

Plotnikova, Ekaterina^1

Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Politechnicheskaya st., 29, St. Petersburg

195251, Russia^1

关键词: Developed countries;    Education process;    Educational environment;    Higher education system;    Industrial production;    Information communication technology;    Social infrastructure;    Structural transformation;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/497/1/012047/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/497/1/012047

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The sphere of high technologies in the developed countries is gradually becoming the main source of economic growth, defines structural changes in economy and contributes to modernization of systems. That is why information-communication technologies represent the main instrument of modernization of the industrial production system, development of social infrastructure, structural transformation of economy. Implementation of information-communication technologies requires specialists who have totally new competencies which causes reorganization of the higher education system. The process of digitalization in the higher education system is carried out over the course of recent years. In this context, the aim of the study is estimation of education digitalization in leading universities of Saint Petersburg. The main directions of digitalization of education have been systematized within the framework of the study, basic risks and supposed results have been revealed. Estimation of digitalization of leading universities is being carried out in the following directions: implementation of education process, optimization of business-processes and optimization of document flow and organization of the process of the academic teaching staff retraining, organization of access to scientific works of universities. As a result, it has been revealed that only 3 leading universities of the city take active part in digitalization: they create online-courses, their own electronic educational environment; they provide access to their staff members' studies. The analysis of the structure of expenses in these universities has revealed insufficiency of financing for teaching staff information technologies. We should also note a general tendency of reducing expenses on digitalization in the educational sphere. In future, this will cause underdevelopment of education in teaching new technologies and preparing specialists with competencies non-demanded on the market.