Digital technologies in modern higher educational space: analysis of risks and threats

Abstract

At present, Russia faces a strategic task related to building a course aimed at a breakthrough in the scientific, technological and socio-economic development of the country. This development is inextricably linked with the digital economy, which, in turn, is impossible without the digitalization of education. The essence of digitalization of education is to achieve high performance in the educational process using digital technologies. It is noted, that within the framework of the digital transformation of education, the content of education, methods, forms of educational work, forms of assessing the results achieved by students are changing. On the one hand, this process is aimed at developing a digital educational environment in order to improve the educational results of each student, but on the other hand, when using digital technologies in the higher educational space, the following risks arise: the risk of dehumanization, the risk of spiritual lumpenization, the threat to the fundamental component of traditional education caused by the promotion of “educational services”, the risk of loss of cognitive competencies, the risk of technologization and robotization, the deepening crisis of intellectual culture, the threat to the creative development of the individual, the risk of social exclusion.

The risks and threats of digital educational technologies and products

“…Ustyuzhanina & Evsukov, (2018) also purported that the digitization of education could lead to the transfer of implied knowledge. Kotlyarova, Rudenko, Yaksa & Shubina (2021) also expressed that digitalization of the Russian education could lead to spiritual lumpenization of the society, hence the need to build a proper structure for digital education in Russia.…”