Роль государства в совершенствовании интернет-инфраструктуры в вузах для поддержки комбинированных форматов обучения

Abstract

The ongoing global digitalization actualizes the development of a digital ecosystem of educational organizations capable of supporting combined learning formats. The COVID-19 pandemic has become a catalyst for the digital transformation of universities and their active entry into foreign platforms, but in the face of new sanctions pressure, many universities risk being left without mastered technological platforms, information databases and returning to less effective teaching. So, this article attempts to assess the role of the government in forming and developing the Internet infrastructure of universities. The combined format of education, which has received full-scale development over the past two years, has put the development of educational information technologies at the forefront. On the basis of system analysis, the historical-logical method and based on the expertise of the authors, there were formulated the main challenges and lessons of the first large-scale experience of distance teaching under pandemic restrictions which affected all educational organizations. It was revealed that the key problem of this period was the heterogeneity of universities in terms of the degree of digital maturity and the level of development of the Internet infrastructure, as well as the high level of differentiation of educational information technologies used, primarily foreign ones. The ongoing restrictions on access to these resources will intensify the development of a unified national information educational ecosystem, for which the main vectors of state policy aimed at overcoming external challenges and threats have been formulated. There is a leading experience of Lomonosov Moscow State University on the development of an educational platform for various areas of continuous distance education, discussed in this article. The state policy measures proposed in the article can contribute to the achievement of digital maturity in the education industry, improve the quality of a higher education and will contribute to the development of domestic manufacturers of IT equipment and software.