OPPORTUNITIES FOR DIGITAL EDUCATION IN THE CONTEXT OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RISKS

• Published in: Economic and Social Development: Book of Proceedings pp. 241 - 247
• Main Authors: Skorodumova, O B, Melikov, I M, Kuzmenko, G N
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Varazdin Varazdin Development and Entrepreneurship Agency (VADEA) 20.10.2020
• Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Atomizing; Developing countries; Dialectics; Digital economy; Digital technology; Digitization; Education; Environmental education; Individualism; Information dissemination; Information technology; LDCs; Learning; Modernization; Research methodology; Research methods; Side effects; Society; Systems analysis; United States > US; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics > USSR; Russia
• ISSN: 1849-6903; 1849-6903

The aim of the study is to analyze the consequences of large-scale digitalization of education, to identify new constructive trends that appear under its influence and accompanying socioanthropological risks. The main research methods are dialectical, comparative and systems approach. As a result of the study, the advantages of wide digitalization of education were shown, facilitating access to information, allowing for detailed and individualized learning process. At the same time, the side processes associated with the formation of such socio-anthropological risks as: the risks of atomization of society and the extreme individualization of its members, oriented in the process of obtaining education only on their own success, deepening inequality, including at the level of education, were identified and characterized, associated with the use of different educational models for developed and developing countries, the risks of losing connection with the natural world and replacing it with an artificial one. The conclusion reached by the authors is that when implementing the global digitalization of the educational environment, which is objectively the need of modern society, it is important to take into account potential risks and develop strategies to reduce them. The novelty of the work lies in the study of the side effects of digitalization of education, identifying the specifics of the accompanying risks. The methodological basis of the study was made up of modern specialized studies on this topic both in the field of fundamental and applied sciences, targeted programs, rating studies of the digitalization of society in various countries. On the basis of the dialectical method, the contradictions associated with the digitalization of education were identified. The comparative method made it possible to identify the advantages and disadvantages of traditional approaches to education in comparison with modern ones. Based on the system analysis, the interdependencies of the digitalization of education processes and their side effects were revealed.