Modern digital educational environment in the Russian Federation SCOS

Tasks

• Form a systematic approach to the formation of a single educational space of Russia based on modern ^[1]
• Implement a national platform for a single Russian educational space with the ability to distribute and control the use of electronic educational content
• Develop methods and algorithms for dynamic adaptation of the educational process to individual characteristics of students
• Provide access to a secure Russian electronic educational environment from anywhere on the planet to any interested person
• Create mechanisms to promote the patriotic education of citizens, the formation of a common civil identity among children, the development of cultural characteristics of the peoples of Russia, the promotion of the Russian language, the preservation and development of the national languages ​ ​ of the indigenous peoples of Russia.

To whom

• CHILDREN - for quality education regardless of location and social status
• PARENTS - a significant reduction in the cost of educating a child while improving the quality of education.
• TEACHERS - obtaining new tools for professional activities and the possibility of advanced training.
• COMPATRIOTS ABROAD - access to high-quality Russian education, introduction of children
• to the Russian cultural and educational environment
• STATE - ensuring the constitutional right of everyone to high-quality and affordable education, reducing costs in organizing the educational process, saving budget funds. Promotion of Russian education abroad, including strategically important territories.

Legislative sources

• "May" Decrees of the President of Russia
• Russian National Security Strategy
• Russia's Information Security Doctrine
• Instructions of the President of Russia following the meeting of the State Council on Education, including an order to create a Russian electronic school
• The concept of promoting Russian education abroad
• Program for the development of the Russian language until 2020
• Education Development Program until 2020
• State Educational Standards
• The concept of patriotic education of citizens of the Russian Federation
• Concept of regional informatization
• The concept of transferring the processing and storage of state information resources that do not contain information constituting state secrets to the system of federal and regional data centers

2023: Services with digital content for schools will appear in Russia

In Russia, services will be created that will open access to verified digital educational content to schools and colleges, as well as kindergartens and institutions of additional education. Such information was shared on October 24, 2023 in the press service of the State Duma deputy RFAnton Nemkin.

"The Government of the Russian Federation has updated the strategic direction in the field of digital transformation of education regarding the sphere of activity of the Ministry of Education of Russia," the website of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation reported.

First of all, such services will help plan the trajectories of learning and development of the child. In addition, with their help, teachers and educators will be able to select content in accordance with the work program. Feedback from parents will also work better.

For teachers of additional education, services with high-quality digital content - the ability to diversify the formats of classes in circles and sections using verified materials.

Children really perceive information online much easier, since this is their usual environment, said Anton Nemkin, a member of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technology and Communications.

"At the same time, organizing the learning process using digital content is not an easy task, our teachers need help and support in the development of this area. One of the main tasks of the work that is being carried out in this direction is to strengthen traditional forms of education, while developing a high-quality, safe, educational space. Everyone should have access to it and verified electronic educational content today - including disabled children and children who live in hard-to-reach and remote areas, "the deputy emphasized.

At the same time, the problem of ensuring the security of such services in the digital environment remains more than urgent, Nemkin added.

"The content accumulated in one place for children, which will be verified by specialists, will quickly become a bait for hackers. After infiltrating such a platform, they will be able to spray destructive there too. Therefore, such services should have multi-level protection, and teachers who use materials in their work should never lose their vigilance and carefully study in advance the content with which they plan to introduce the younger generation, "the parliamentarian concluded.

2022

11.7 billion rubles were allocated to create a digital educational environment

About 11.7 billion rubles were spent on the implementation of the federal project "Digital Educational Environment" (DSP) of the national program "Digital Economy of the Russian Federation" in 2022. This is stated in the annual report of the Cabinet of Ministers on the implementation of state policy in the field of education. The document was published in mid-June 2023.

According to the government report, in 2022, within the framework of the DSP, the federal state information system "My School" developed by the Ministry of Education was put into operation, which includes the subsystem "Digital Educational Content Library" (DSC Library) to provide students, teaching staff and parents with free access to updated verified digital educational content corresponding FSES Educational Institution.

More than 11 billion rubles were allocated to create a digital educational environment

In 2022, 21 sets of CTCs in the following subjects were developed for placement in the CTC Library: Russian, mathematics, the world around the world, foreign language (English), literary reading, visual arts, music, literature, social studies, geography, fundamentals of life safety, technology, physics, chemistry and biology - more than 3 thousand digital lessons (cumulative from 2021 - 29 sets, 6 thousand digital lessons).

By the end of 2022, the federal information and service platform of the DSP included eight components, four of which were developed in 2022: analytics service, user support service, additional education accessibility service, digital student assistant. It is also noted that in 2022 the following is provided:

• equipping MTB educational organizations for the introduction of DSP in 58 constituent entities of the Russian Federation for 4020 objects (16,317 objects on a cumulative basis since 2019);
• equipping (updating) with computer, multimedia, presentation equipment and software as part of an experiment to modernize primary general, basic general and secondary general education in 15 constituent entities of the Russian Federation 1189 objects (3314 objects on a cumulative basis from 2021).

REPORT OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Rostelecom has created an IT infrastructure in 9 thousand schools

Within the framework of the national program "Digital Economy of Russia" and the federal project "Digital Educational Environment," Rostelecom carried out large-scale work on the organization of wireless broadband Internet access (Wi-Fi) and video surveillance systems in state and municipal educational institutions in 24 regions of Russia. In total, in 2021-2022, the IT infrastructure was launched in 9,157 buildings of educational organizations, thanks to which students received equal conditions for high-quality education, regardless of their place of residence. Rostelecom announced this on January 19, 2023. Read more here.

The creation of the "Digital Educational Environment of Sevastopol" was approved

On August 12, 2022, the Sevastopol government announced the launch of an information system called the Digital Educational Environment of Sevastopol (TsOSS). The document approved by the authorities was developed as part of the implementation of the region's digital transformation strategy. Read more here.

Video platform announcement

In early July 2022, it became known about the creation in Russia of a platform with educational content for extracurricular education for schoolchildren. Advisor to the Minister of Education Anton Nazarov told Vedomosti about this. Read more here.

2021

The Ministry of Digital Development approved the standard for equipping schools switching to a digital educational environment

The Ministry of Digital Development and the Ministry of Education approved the standard for equipping schools switching to a digital educational environment. The corresponding order was registered in mid-December 2021.

According to the document, the standard for equipping state and municipal educational organizations engaged in educational activities in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, on the territory of which an experiment is being carried out to introduce a digital educational environment, computer, multimedia, presentation equipment and software, was developed in order to:

The Ministry of Digital Development and the Ministry of Education approved the standard for equipping schools switching to a digital educational environment

• unification of the approach to the technical equipment of such institutions;
• Build an IT infrastructure to provide wireless access to government IT systems
• creating conditions for the implementation of educational programs using e-learning and distance learning technologies;
• compliance of the security services of educational institutions with the requirements for anti-terrorist security.

All equipment and components purchased and used for compliance with the standard "shall have the status of Russian origin." Foreign equipment that meets the technical requirements is allowed in case of a documented absence of equipment models or failure of manufacturers to deliver it within the required time frame at an average market cost for the corresponding type and volume of equipment supplied.

The equipment in accordance with the standard is aimed at creating an information and telecommunication and technological infrastructure that provides:

• the possibility of using e-learning and distance learning technologies in the implementation of educational programs of primary general, basic general and secondary general education;
• equal access to the educational process for students regardless of their place of residence.

08.09.2021 Order No. 634/925

200 students of seven Russian universities remotely passed tests and intermediate exams in 12 disciplines using bioproctoring

Rostelecom on August 17, 2021 shared the results of testing bioproctoring - digital technology for remote examination. It includes two services: legally significant identification of the student's identity using the Unified Biometric System and monitoring violations in the exam process using online proctoring technology. The system monitors the removal of gaze from the monitor, the presence of extraneous voices on records, the change of the student's working window and other violations. Read more here.

The Ministry of Education intends to introduce digital profiles of students with the recording of all their achievements

On June 8, 2021, it became known about the upcoming introduction Russia in the so-called "digital profile of the student," which will store the achievements of the students. The corresponding concept was prepared, Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation the document was sent Ministry of Digital Development to for study.

As Kommersant writes with reference to this concept, the digital profile will be mandatory and will appear at the first request for an educational service, for example, when enrolling in kindergarten or first grade. The system will use information from the registers of executive authorities and state information systems, requests for them will be made using impersonal identifiers.

Russian schoolchildren will create a'digital portrait'

Requests to various systems will be made using impersonal identifiers. The source of the newspaper clarified that the experiment on the creation of a digital profile will take place until December 31, 2022.

According to experts interviewed by Kommersant, there are risks of abuse in the proposed system. Oleg Blinov, a teacher at Moscow Digital School, fears that a "fantastic amount of data" about children, including information about their attendance and grades, in the event of a leak could be used to deceive children, including social engineering.

In addition, specialists have doubts about the advisability of total collection and storage of educational data. The digital profile of the student copies the current concept of the digital profile of a citizen, with the exception of small details, said Karen Ghazaryan, general director of the Institute for Internet Research. It is difficult to calculate the cost of creating such a system, the expert adds, since from several million to hundreds of millions of rubles are spent on digitalization in the regions. " He does not exclude that the cost of the project can reach a billion rubles^[2]

The Ministry of Education named 5 priorities for the digital transformation of general education in the regions

In early June 2021, it became known about the five main directions of the digital transformation of general education in the regions of Russia. They were listed by the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation.

• The formation of modern infrastructure of educational organizations (computer classes, visualization tools, the Internet, etc.).
• Implementation of services in the field of education in electronic form (registration to school, participation in the state final certification, tracking of current academic performance, etc.).
• Implementation of functions in the field of education in electronic form (registers of personnel, contingent, electronic journal and diary, etc.)
• Modern data-based management (typical sites, monitoring the use of equipment, automated preparation of reports, etc.).
• Training of personnel to work in the digital educational environment (working with regional leaders of digital transformation, advanced training, etc.).

The directions of digital transformation of the regional educational system were discussed during consultations of federal executive bodies with the regions on the inclusion of sectoral projects in regional strategies. According to D-Russia, the main electronic services are:

• enrollment of children in educational programs of preschool education;
• enrollment of children in educational programs of primary, basic general, secondary general education; * provision of information on the student's current academic progress;
• record for state final certification (GIA);
• publication of the results of GIA participants;
• conducting an appeal of GIA participants;
• registration for participation in the All-Russian Olympiad of schoolchildren.

By the beginning of June 2021, all seven of these services were implemented in Moscow and St. Petersburg.^[3]

Ministry of Education launches cloud to automatically check schoolchildren's homework

As it became known at the end of May 2021, the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation launches a cloud to automatically check the homework of schoolchildren. The service is created within the framework of a digital educational environment.

We unload teachers from routine paperwork, transferring to the cloud such things as tools for automatic planning of teacher activities: automatic generation of reports for each child, class, school, automatic check of homework on an electronic platform, - said the head of the Ministry of Education Sergei Kravtsov, whose words are quoted by TASS Information Agency of Russia with reference to the press service of the department.

Ministry of Education creates a cloud to automatically check schoolchildren's homework

The report also says that the introduction of a digital educational environment will allow building an individual trajectory for the student's education.

By the end of May 2021, an experiment on the introduction of a digital educational environment continues in Russia. The Ministry of Education explains that the main goal of the project is to create equal conditions for obtaining high-quality education throughout the country. The experiment involves equipping schools with the necessary infrastructure, providing them with access to high-speed Internet, and developing educational content.

The Ministry of Education of Russia is ready to join the work of the interdepartmental working group with the Ministry of Digital Development of Russia on digital literacy in schools. This topic was discussed at an expanded meeting of the Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications of the State Duma at the end of May 2021.

According to Kravtsov, "children need to be surrounded by positive content," so the Ministry of Education is working to ensure that educational programs are interesting for schoolchildren, attracts leading companies to create developing and useful projects, including "Lessons in Numbers," the "IT Knowledge Day" campaign and the online marathon "Online Just" with the support of the Mail.ru Group.^[4]

Russian IT companies are asking to stop buying laptops for schools due to the participation of only foreign manufacturers in them

The head of the Association of Software Product Developers (ARPP) "Domestic Software" Renat Lashin and the head of the Association of Russian Developers and Electronics Manufacturers (ARPE) Ivan Pokrovsky sent a letter to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko, in which they asked to suspend public purchases of laptops for schools within the framework of the federal project "Digital Educational Environment," in which Russian manufacturers cannot take part. This became known on May 24, 2021.

According to the authors of the appeal, incorrect or excessive requirements for products led to the fact that in 2021 the regions purchased and are preparing to purchase foreign-made laptops totaling more than 1.35 billion rubles.

Russian IT companies complained about the purchase of foreign software in schools

As RBC writes with reference to its own informant in the IT market, we are talking about public procurement of computers for regional ministries of education in the Samara, Irkutsk and Tambov regions, as well as in the republics of Tatarstan and Adygea. The largest purchases of foreign laptops were carried out by the Institute for the Development of Education of the Perm Territory (for 461.3 million rubles) and the Ministry of Education and Science of Kuzbass (for 353.1 million rubles).

The letter to Dmitry Chernyshenko says that excessive requirements for equipment in schools appeared after the methodological recommendations of the Ministry of Education approved in January 2021 on the creation and operation of digital education centers. The regions of the Russian Federation use them when preparing procurement documentation for the purchase of computer equipment for schools as part of the Digital Educational Environment fedproject. However, these recommendations do not contain import substitution requirements for the purchased material and technical base and software, and "equipment requirements are redundant and contain an indication of specific models." Detailing the requirements for the preparation of tender documentation "leads to the actual cut-off of the possibility of participation of Russian manufacturers," the authors of the letter report.^[5]

Ministry of Education presented a plan for the digitalization of school education

Director of the Department of Digital Transformation and Big Data of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation Pavel Kuzmin, during a speech at the TAdviser IT Government Day 2021 conference, shared plans for the digitalization of school education.

Pavel Kuzmin: We are moving towards fully electronic document management. This will reduce the routine burden on teachers. Artificial intelligence will help the child in the selection of content. In addition, the "figure" opens up additional opportunities for the business community

Digital services should strengthen traditional full-time education - the interaction that occurs between a teacher and a student in the classroom. Their task is to enable a child to develop on modern educational platforms using modern educational services, according to the Ministry of Education.

Full implementation of digital services is impossible without equipping schools with the necessary equipment and without an Internet connection.

According to the federal project "Digital Educational Environment," for which the Ministry of Education is responsible, it is planned to put content management devices in schools, including a teacher's automated workplace (laptop), school server, computer classrooms, devices for playing content in the classroom (interactive panel, smart TV or magnetic marker projector), as well as IP and webcams so that schoolchildren can connect to lessons during illness or sports and creative training.

By 2024, it is planned to update equipment in 32,863 schools. For the first time in all years, such large-scale injections into the renewal of school infrastructure have taken place, Kuzmin said.

Pavel Kuzmin's speech at the TAdviser IT Government DAY 2021 online conference

It is equally important to solve the problem of digital inequality in different regions, urban and rural schools. This work is being carried out according to another federal project - "Information Infrastructure," for which the Ministry of Digital Development is responsible.

By the end of 2021, colleagues from the Ministry of Digital Development will provide an Internet connection to 100% of educational organizations. For rural schools, it will be 50 Mbps, for urban schools - up to 100 Mbps. And by 2024, LAN networks, SCS and seamless Wi-Fi should be deployed in all offices of educational organizations, "Kuzmin added

In parallel, the Ministry of Education is developing services for the digital educational environment. Among them:

• library of digital educational content (simulators, tasks, training programs),
• marketplace for access to digital educational content of non-governmental (commercial) developers,
• materials services for assessment of current academic performance and self-diagnostics,
• digital biography of a student, where achievements will be recorded (provided that all facts are accepted by the child's family),
• standard sites (area of ​ ​ responsibility of the Ministry of Digital Development),
• interaction with electronic magazines and diaries (a single all-Russian decision, according to Kuzmin, is not planned, each region can choose a decision itself, subject to its integration with a single portal of public services),
• communication platform "Spherum" (the decision of Rostelecom and Mail.ru, the domestic analogue of Zoom, as Kuzmin called it).

Listing the services of the digital educational environment, Pavel Kuzmin dwelled in more detail on content issues.

The first thing we want to do is the extremely difficult task of 2021 - the formation of a universal thematic classifier, which will be a list of all topics of the school curriculum from 1st to 11th grade, to which in the future it will be possible to attach digital educational notes and various materials that will be developed, for example, by colleagues from EdTech

The state, according to Kuzmin, should provide a minimum level of availability of basic content for each Russian student, regardless of the financial situation of the family, and the capabilities of the educational organization. The volume of basic content is 60 thousand electronic educational materials.

Business has opportunities to create high-tech innovative content, and in this regard, business, according to the representative of the Ministry of Education, will always be half a step ahead of the state.

Therefore, we plan, within the framework of the marketplace, to enable colleagues from EdTech to place their resources, provide educational organizations with access to this content, "he said.

Grant support is planned to support content developers, Kuzmin added.

At the end of the report, Pavel Kuzmin spoke about the prospects for the development of school education:

We are moving towards a completely electronic document flow. This will reduce the routine burden on teachers. Already there are a lot of systems for checking independent work, homework. Artificial intelligence will help the child in the selection of content based on the results of his previous educational activities. Systems for improving the skills of teachers are changing. Some teachers in the subjects have to spend 3 hours to overcome 200 km to the Institute for the Development of Education, where there will be some special courses. But there are already online courses. The possibility of obtaining a certificate of advanced training is indeed there and is actively being introduced in the regions. In addition, the "figure" opens up additional opportunities for the business community both in schools and in the system of advanced training

Rostelecom deploys Wi-Fi in schools for 2.5 billion rubles

On February 2, 2021, it became known about Rostelecom's search for contractors for the implementation of projects to deploy Wi-Fi networks in schools and colleges, as well as video surveillance systems. The total starting price of contests in 16 regions is about 2.5 billion rubles. Read more here.

The Institute of the Ministry of Education buys content for schoolchildren for 800 million rubles

At the end of January 2021, it became known about the plans of the Federal Institute for Digital Transformation in Education (FITZTO, owned by the Ministry of Education) to spend 800 million rubles on the purchase of educational content for schoolchildren. Read more here.

Requirements for "digital" equipment of schools have been developed

In January 2021 Ministry of Education Ministry of Digital Development , they presented a draft order "On Approval of the Standard," Digital School which was developed in connection with the experiment on the introduction of a digital educational environment (DSP). More. here

2020

Mishustin allocated 1 billion rubles for digital content for schools

In December 2020, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed an order, which allocated 1 billion rubles for the introduction of digital technologies in the field of education. The funds will be received by the Ministry of Education, according to a document published on the official portal of legal information.

It is specified that the funds will be used to purchase educational content as part of the implementation of the federal project "Digital Educational Environment" of the national project "Education." The agency will use budget allocations for the purchase of digital notes in all general education subjects from grades 1 to 11, as well as interactive educational materials: various games, tests, virtual laboratories, multimedia maps, anthologies, archival and historical documents.

Mikhail Mishustin allocated 1 billion rubles for digital content for schools

Following the results of the work done, representatives of the Ministry of Education must submit a report to the Government of the Russian Federation by February 1, 2021.

The creation of a digital educational environment involves the connection of all Russian schools to high-speed Internet.

The issue of students' access to modern educational programs was raised on December 17, 2020 during the annual press conference of President Vladimir Putin. The head of state noted that in 2021 high-speed Internet will appear in all schools, and urged to make sure that the problem of technological unavailability of educational institutions is solved.

The project to provide schools with access to the Internet with information protection and content filtering is engaged in. " Rostelecom According to the contract with, Ministry of Digital Development Rostelecom will receive 6.7 billion rubles for these purposes by the end of 2020. This event is also included in the federal draft of the "national Information infrastructure program Digital economy." In accordance with it, federal budget expenditures for these purposes in the period 2019-2021. will amount to 10.3 billion rubles.^[6]

Mishustin launched the introduction of a digital educational environment in Russia

On December 10, 2020, an experiment on the introduction of a digital educational environment (DSP) is launched in Russia. The corresponding decree was signed by the Prime Minister of the RFMikhail Mishustin. The document was published on December 9, 2020 on the official portal of legal information.

According to the decree, the Ministry of Education must, within 10 days from the date of entry into force of the resolution, develop and approve the procedure for selecting Russian regions for the experiment, as well as approve a roadmap for the experiment in one month in agreement with the Ministry of Digital Development. The experiment itself on the introduction of a digital educational environment will last two years - from December 10, 2020 to December 31, 2022.

Mikhail Mishustin launched the introduction of a digital educational environment in the Russian Federation

The subjects where the experiment will take place will have to conclude an agreement on interaction with the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Digital Development within two months, as well as develop and approve their roadmap for the experiment within three months.

This document, first of all, is intended to guarantee all students, regardless of where they live, equal conditions for obtaining quality education. The introduction of the DSP, which is discussed in the decree, in no way replaces the traditional, full-time format of education as the key for the Russian education system, - said the Minister of Education of the Russian Federation Sergei Kravtsov, whose words were quoted by the press service of the department, which he heads.

They plan to introduce a digital educational environment in Russian schools until 2030. The corresponding draft government decree, developed by the Ministry of Education, has been published on the federal portal of draft regulatory legal acts.

Changes are proposed to be made to the state program "Development of Education." According to the project, in 2018-2030, the implementation of the digital transformation of the education system should be ensured, and the DSP should be created and implemented in schools.^[7]"

The government approved the regulation on GIS "Modern Digital Educational Environment"

In November 2020, the Government of the Russian Federation approved the provision on the state information system "Modern Digital Educational Environment." The corresponding document was published on the official portal of legal information.

According to the text of the decree, the system ensures the fulfillment of such basic tasks as:

• creation and maintenance of a register of online courses implemented by various educational organizations. The procedure for forming and maintaining a register of online courses is established by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation;
• integration with educational platforms and information systems of educational organizations, as well as the organization of centralized accounting of training results in online courses;
• accounting of educational programs of higher education and educational programs of additional vocational education and the results of their development (when passing them).

The resolution assigns the functions of the system operator to the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation. Financing for the creation, development and operation of the system is carried out at the expense of the federal budget provided for by the Ministry of Education and Science for the implementation of the measures of the state program "Scientific and Technological Development of the Russian Federation."

As for the functions of the "Modern Digital Educational Environment," they are as follows:

• conducting an online course examination and assessment of the quality of the online course by educational organizations;
• assigning unique digital object identifiers to online courses;
• storage of ratings and feedback on the online course of students who have completed the mastering of such an online course;
• identification and authentication of participants in the system using the federal state information system "Unified identification and authentication system in the infrastructure, providing information and technological interaction of information systems used to provide state and municipal services in electronic form";
• ensuring the reliability, relevance and storage of information on the results of learning online courses by students;

formation of independent ratings of online courses, including according to the criterion of offset (failure to count) by educational organizations carrying out educational activities on educational programs of higher education, the results of their mastering by students;^[8]"

Government cuts budget for digital education environment

The draft budget for 2021-2022 includes a reduction in funding for the federal project "Digital Educational Environment," which is part of the national project "Education." This follows from the draft federal budget for 2021 and the planning period 2022-2023 submitted by the government to the State Duma. Read more here.

Digital biographies of schoolchildren will appear in Russian schools

As it became known at the end of September 2020, digital biographies of schoolchildren will appear in Russian schools. This initiative is being implemented within the framework of the digital educational environment project.

As the Minister of Education Sergei Kravtsov told Rossiyskaya Gazeta, the DSP will allow recording the successes and failures of schoolchildren in their digital biographies.

The DSP system will make all the successes and failures of the student visible and measurable: progress will be recorded in the so-called digital biography, which will objectively show what the student has time for and what he needs help in, - said Kravtsov.

The minister added that the digital educational environment is a single information system that will combine the Internet resources and services necessary for training and education, and will also help teachers quickly find information from reliable sources, and students to contact verified databases of information when performing school assignments.

Digital biographies of schoolchildren will appear in Russian schools

According to Vedomosti, Russian schools will be equipped with cameras with face recognition. They will help to ensure the safety of children, track when the child came to school or left it, identify outsiders in the premises. The customer was the regional departments of education, and the contractor was the National Center for Informatization.

According to Kravtsov, the DSP is also an infrastructure: everything related to the Internet at school, computer equipment, software.

Such technical equipment will enable children living in rural areas or in remote territories, where there is an objective shortage of teachers, to study with the best teachers in the country, to have access to high-quality proven educational resources. Being always in touch with the class and teacher, not to fall out of the educational process and not miss classes even during illness, "he stressed.

Work on the use of DSP started in educational institutions of 15 Russian regions. The results of the experiment will be analyzed, and then the system will be implemented in the remaining subjects.^[9]

Ministry of Education will teach teachers to work with digital platforms

On August 20, 2020, the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation announced the creation of a digital educational environment (DSP) to teach teachers how to work with digital platforms. When implementing this initiative, the department intends to use the experience of already implemented federal and regional projects in the field of education, as well as the experience of major players in the Russian education market, said  Alexander Lyamin, Deputy Director of the Department of Digital Transformation and Big Data of the Russian Ministry of Education.

It is difficult to make a large number of high-quality services and educational content from scratch, and here we will follow the path of interaction with large market players. We have ambitious goals and a short time frame in which we need to create services and a base of verified, interactive, exciting and effective content. And the experience already gained is simply invaluable, - he said on the all-Russian online Augustovka Yandex.Textbook "School and Digital Education."

When creating a digital educational environment, the Ministry of Education will rely on the experience of already implemented federal and regional projects in the field of education, as well as the experience of major players in the Russian education market

The digital educational environment is designed to make it easier for teachers to plan, prepare and conduct lessons, make it possible to automatically check homework, and students will have access to verified educational content and high-quality services. Regions will have access to federal services.

According to Lyamin, the DSP implementation experiment will begin in 2020, and a digital platform is scheduled to launch in 2021. Over the year, the Ministry of Education intends to "see what results will be achieved, how users will perceive the platform and how we will move on throughout the country," he added.

Alexander Lyamin also spoke about the strategic goals of the Education national project, the key of which is Russia's entry into the top ten best countries in the world in terms of the quality of general education.^[10]

2019: State to spend 44 billion on 'Digital Education Environment' with online courses

The government will allocate more than 44 billion rubles. to finance the federal project "Digital Educational Environment" in 2020-2022. Such information is contained in the draft federal budget for 2020 and for the planning period 2021-2022. The project can be found on the portal for publishing draft legal acts^[11] will^[12].

Of this amount, 16.3 billion rubles will be allocated for the project in 2020, 16 billion rubles in 2021, and 12 billion rubles in 2022.

The goal of the Digital Educational Environment project is to create by 2024 a modern and safe digital educational environment through which access to education at various levels will be carried out. The project is conducted by the Ministry of Education of Russia.

According to the draft budget, the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications in 2020 will receive about 93.2 billion rubles. In 2021, the ministry's budget is planned to be increased to 135.8 billion rubles, and in 2022 - to 189.3 billion rubles. It is planned to spend 169.9 million rubles on subsidies provided to budgetary, autonomous and other non-profit organizations within the framework of the Digital Economy national project in 2020. In 2021, they want to spend 169.2 million rubles for these purposes, and in 2022 - 50.8 million rubles.

It is proposed to allocate 32.6 billion rubles for the purchase of goods, works and services for government agencies in 2020, 45.6 billion rubles in 2021, and 65.3 billion rubles in 2022. During these three years, it is planned to allocate 36.3 billion rubles, 54.3 billion rubles for the federal project "Information Infrastructure." and 74.1 billion rubles. respectively.

For the needs of the Information State program, the draft budget provides for 48.2 billion rubles. in 2020, 73.1 billion rubles. in 2021 and 111.4 billion rubles. in 2022. The federal project "Digital Technologies" should receive about 21.2 billion rubles in 2020, in 2021 - 37.3 billion rubles, and in 2022 - 63.2 billion rubles. In 2020, it is planned to spend 20.7 billion rubles on the federal project "Digital Public Administration," in 2021 - 28.1 billion rubles, and in 2022 - 39 billion rubles.

2018: Digital Platform

The project "Digital Educational Environment" involves the creation of a federal information resource online.edu.ru, which will give citizens free access to online courses from various educational online platforms on the principle of "one window." In 2018, a test integration of this resource with the Unified Identification and Authentication System (ESIA) took place.

At the end of 2018, users could take 1028 online courses from 31 educational online platforms on the portal. The number of registered students amounted to 770 thousand. During the year, a register of online courses, a subsystem for assessing their quality, integration solutions for unified user authentication, a digital portfolio, a subsystem for generating ratings of online courses, a subsystem for psychometric analysis of data on their development, as well as personal accounts of a student, employer, educational organization and expert appeared on the portal.

In addition to the platform of the digital educational environment, another similar resource is being created in Russia - the integration platform of continuing education. The difference between the platforms is that the first is intended to receive additional education from different organizations, not necessarily universities, and the second will launch online academic courses only from universities, and students of one educational institution will have access to courses from other institutions.

2017

Grant Competition

On June 18, 2017, the competition announced by the Ministry of Education and Science for universities to receive grants from the federal budget started. On August 28, its results were announced. Among the winners are the Yeltsin Ural Federal University, the Higher School of Economics (HSE), the St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, etc. Grants will be aimed at creating a technological infrastructure for the development of online education, a system for assessing the quality of knowledge gained and improving the qualifications of teachers. In 2017, the total amount of such grants should amount to 400 million rubles, and in 2018-2019 - 300 million rubles each^[13].

Draft law SCOS Ministry of Education and Science

In the summer of 2017, a public discussion of the draft law of the Ministry of Education and Science, which regulates electronic education, that is, the use of the Internet for distance learning, began in Russia. The bill states that training in any educational course can be completely remote, without conducting classroom classes at all. Such a course is called in the bill - an online course. Upon completion, certification is carried out, the student is issued a pass document.

At the same time, there are specialties where completely distance learning is not allowed. The list of these specialties should be compiled and approved by the Ministry of Education and Science.

The discussion of the bill will end on August 9, 2017^[14].

Basic requirements

If the training is carried out completely remotely, identification of the student's identity will be required. The educational institution itself chooses how to conduct it, and it itself ensures its conduct. It also provides its student with a sufficiently rich information environment so that he can master the program regardless of his location.

Wherever the student is located, it is believed that the educational process takes place at the address of the educational organization. Its teachers must be prepared for this form of training, their training is provided by the organization itself. Also, the educational institution, if necessary, advises the student individually on the Internet. For mixed learning, the ratio of hours of classroom and remote classes is determined by the institution on its own.

Digital Educational Environment

The bill was developed as part of the priority government project "Modern Digital Educational Environment in the Russian Federation." The project passport was approved in November 2016. According to the project, by the end of 2025 there should already be 11 million students in Russia who have mastered online courses. To do this, you will have to start by reaching the indicator of 140 thousand in 2017.

Within the framework of the project, it is planned to create an Internet portal for online courses, integrated with the Unified Identification and Authentication System (ESIA) and GIS "Contingent," as well as to work out a system for assessing the quality of knowledge gained. The number of online courses created as part of the project should reach 3.5 thousand. It is also planned to create specialized open source software to improve the quality of distance learning and assess the final knowledge and skills of the student.

A legal framework will also be developed that will legalize the development of online courses on the portal and classify them as educational programs. Within the framework of the project, it is planned to train 10 thousand teachers in new forms of work.

Main indicators of the project "Modern digital educational environment in the Russian Federation"

Russian universities will receive a billion from the budget for online education

Within three years, Russian universities for online training and related needs will be allocated in the form of grants of 1 billion rubles. This is stated in a decree of the Government of the Russian Federation published in June 2017, which approved the rules for the provision of subsidies. Funds for these purposes are provided for in the federal budget: 400 million rubles. in 2017 and 300 million rubles. in the planning period in 2018 and 2019^[15].

The money is allocated within the framework of the priority project "Modern Digital Educational Environment" (approved on October 25, 2016) and the state program "Development of Education" for 2013-2020 (approved on April 15, 2014).

Grants will be provided following the results of the competition of the Ministry of Education and Science, information about which the ministry will place on its website. Universities will be allowed to participate in the competition, regardless of departmental subordination. The selection of educational organizations will be carried out on the basis of an assessment of the quality of the project and the availability of the necessary personnel potential at the university.

For grantees who have not achieved the required indicators of the effectiveness of the use of funds according to the results of the project, penalties are provided.

Grants, in particular, will be designed to create a system for assessing the quality of online courses, developing skills requirements in the field of online training, and developing proposals for regulatory and legal support for the development of such training.

You can also get money to create software, technological infrastructure, government services, integration solutions for the development of online training, create an information resource that ensures the use of online courses on the principle of "one window."

In addition, it is allowed to spend grant funds on advanced training of teachers and specialists in the field of online training, as well as the promotion of online training technologies and information support for the aforementioned priority project "Modern Digital Educational Environment."

Online training in universities will replace "live" lectures and seminars

Already from 2018, some courses at universities will be translated into electronic form and will not require the personal presence of students and teachers in classrooms. The Ministry of Education and Science plans to conduct an experiment by the end of 2017, during which it will compare the effectiveness of the traditional form of the educational process based on lectures and seminars conducted by university teachers with several educational models based on online courses^[16].

During the experiment, two models will be tested. The first involves the complete replacement of the university's training course with an online course, the second - partial. The university provides student tutoring support.

In addition to replacing courses, the project will develop new approaches to the implementation of educational programs based on the use of online technologies. In particular, we are talking about the use of virtual academic mobility and the construction of individual learning trajectories.

The result of the project will be a comprehensive description of the optimal models of using online courses in the educational process of the university, which can be proposed for implementation in Russian universities. In the future, this will improve the quality and effectiveness of educational programs, expand opportunities for students to really choose an individual educational trajectory.

Multiservice Education Platform

As a single mechanism for the formation of a high-quality educational environment, including using virtual and augmented reality technologies.

The basis of the Russian distance education system will be an Internet portal, which will collect a variety of online courses. The portal will be integrated with the Unified Identification and Authentication System (ESIA) and GIS "Contingent," which will allow both students and teachers to be authorized on it. At the same time, on the basis of open source software ( software), it is planned to develop a system for assessing the knowledge gained on online courses.

In addition to independent work with materials, distance education also implies the possibility of remote consultation with teachers. Obviously, for this they must undergo appropriate training. The possibility of the so-called "mixed" learning is also provided, in which the student is obliged to listen to some part of the hours in the building of the educational institution, and can master some on his own.

Adaptation to the apprentice

• A universal tool for the formation of an individual educational trajectory of the student.
• Implementation of the model of individualization of learning in the conditions of mass school.
• Adaptation of the educational process to the individual characteristics of the child.

• Development of polylingual and multicultural education by means of a multi-language learning environment and interactive forms of learning
• Creating Conditions for Personalized Learning
• Create a unified educational environment, including in order to infrastructure support home education
• Adaptation of the mass education system to the peculiarities of each student.

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See also

• Catalog of products and projects of Distance Learning Systems
• Distance Learning Technologies
• Online Education (Russian Market)
• Online Education (Global Market)
• Digital School
• National Education Project

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