The purposeof the study is to assess the readiness of the Russian higher education system to move to the digital level based on the statistical researches of education. The way to the digital economy becomes decisive in the development of Russian education and covers all its stages. Within the framework of the state program “Education development” the project “Modern Digital Educational Environment” is being realized, for the secondary education the “Digital School” project is being developed, and in the program of development of the digital economy a separate direction “Personnel and Education” is emphasized. Digitalization of education becomes the next stage after the informatization stage in the technological development of education. It is necessary to assess the current level of informatization of higher education.Materials and methods of research.The presented study of the assessment of the readiness of Russian higher education to the digital economy is based on the methodology, proposed by the World Bank, which includes an assessment of five groups of indicators: the use of information technology in the learning process; training of teaching staff for the use of information technology in education; informatization of education management; information infrastructure of higher education; normative and legal support of the digitalization of education. The methodology includes the combination and interpretation of the different statistical data because the appropriate study of digitalization of education requires the specific approach. The factual basis of the research is the data of official statistics and universities.The results, on the one hand, indicate a high level of provision of universities with personal computers and access to the Internet, and on the other hand, a lack of automation of the administrative and educational processes of the university. Despite the constant development of technologies and the emergence of new educational web tools, and a multi-year state policy on the information educational space formation, its potential is partly used by universities. Only one third of university students are trained using e-learning or distance education technologies. At the same time, non-state educational institutions provide most of the educational services available to online listeners. In general, the share of online education in the market of educational services is low and is 1.8% for higher education programs and 6.7% for additional professional education. 82% of students, enrolled in programs with exclusive use of e-learning are students of non-state universities. The use of technology, even in the form of blended learning, in addition to the corresponding IT infrastructure, requires the appropriate training of lecturers and students. The training of lecturers in the use of IT in education, including training directly to work with IT, should be supplemented by teaching methodical work in the information educational space.Conclusion. The study shows that the Russian education system has created the necessary reserve for the creation of IT infrastructure, regulatory support, and best practices in the field of IT application in the educational process, which should become the basis for the participation of Russian universities in the digital economy. At the same time, the differences between information technologies (IT) and digital are not obvious, in many respects, these concepts are identical, differences arise when considering the totality of the information technologies and resources involved. Digitalization assumes that practically all the computing devices are involved in information support, including consumers, who, for example, install mobile applications in order to use the services. Involving a large number of devices with the ability to connect to the Internet allows you to organize the collection and processing of a large amount of digital data. The basis of digitalization is the created IT infrastructure and the degree of informatization in educational institutions.

The purposeof the study is to develop an approach to improve information support for the development of the contents of higher education programs and teaching methodological materials. The system of higher education faces the challenges of supporting the development of the digital economy through training and research. Creating the appropriate content of education becomes a difficult task with the high rate of development of digital technologies and methods to use them. Now, in smart learning, the technical aspects of the organization of the educational process often overshadow aspects, related to the methodology or content of smart learning. However, the issues of the content of education become most relevant. Research in the field of knowledge management remain relevant because, the more perfect the technologies become, that notice the algorithmized work of specialists, the higher the value of creativity for society and the economy.Materials and methodsof research include discourse analysis of domestic and foreign scientific sources devoted to the issues of smart education and knowledge management, the systematization of the material. Methodological basis for developing an approach to improve information support is the methods and technologies of the theory of knowledge management.The resultsof the research show that the need for the development of the digital economy places high demands not only for technologies, but also primarily on the competencies for their use. The logic of IT development in education indicates that there is a gradual change in the stages of informatization: from distance education technologies to e-learning and then to smart learning. Each stage of the informatization of education allows solving the problems that are important for the economy and society. There are the factors, influencing the formation of requirements for the content of educational programs: technological, economic, social and geopolitical. The following requirements of smart training for the content of educational programs are revealed: actual information and tasks in the training course; opportunities for independent cognitive, research and project activities of students; distributed information system of smart learning; integration of the educational environment with professional communities; individualization of the content of training.The conclusion.Technologies and methods of knowledge management can provide the necessary level of speed and quality of development of educational materials. The article describes the knowledge management system, which through the knowledge base, communities and co-creation tools, ensures the relevance of the developed content and fills the smart learning with the necessary content.

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During the period of the forced transition of universities around the world to the online education, the demand for digital free access services has grown. A unique opportunity has appeared to supplement and develop the theoretical and methodological provisions of online learning based on the analysis of the empirical results that characterize the relevance and effectiveness of the digital environment parts. The educational materials free available at the Internet are the part of the digital environment, which are combined into the concept of open educational resources (OER). The purpose of the study is to assess the relevance of OER for faculty, systematize the main ways of working with them, identify the motives and barriers for the development of OER by faculty. The study conducted among the lecturers at Russian universities showed the high importance and value of OER for their teaching and methodological activities to create and develop the training course content in digital environment. More than half of the faculty staff create and distribute their copyright materials on the Internet on their own initiative for the convenience of their students. The faculty and students freely exchange educational materials using a variety of web services. In conditions of increasing demands on faculty and content of training-course, OER is a valuable resource for educational activities. The analysis of the regulatory framework revealed a lack of OER policy in Russian universities, which is one of the barriers for lecturers to create OER. The results of the study made it possible to develop recommendations for the development of OER in the field of higher education: consolidate the concept of OER in the regulatory framework of education, provide methodological and legal support for the creation and use of OER by faculty, and conduct an information campaign to reveal the prospects and advantages of using OER in higher education.

Ключевые слова: управление знаниями, открытое образование, электронное обучение, инновационная деятельность, открытые образовательные ресурсы, массовые открытые онлайн-курсы.