Digital technologies in education: opportunities and risks, advantages and limitations

N. L. Mikidenko; S. P. Storozheva

doi:10.20913/2618-7515-2021-1-12

Digital technologies in education: opportunities and risks, advantages and limitations

N. L. Mikidenko, S. P. Storozheva

https://doi.org/10.20913/2618-7515-2021-1-12

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Abstract

The accelerated digitalization of education as a result of COVID-2019 pandemic has actualized a whole range of issues: availability of digital technologies for all participants in the educational process, accessibility and reliability of digital equipment, presence of digital competencies among participants in the educational process to integrate digital technologies in it, content and forms of digital educational material, digital trust of participants in the educational process, educational communications. The problems and practices of using digital technologies in education, their opportunities and risks, advantages and limitations become significant issues in such conditions. The study methodological bases are the provisions of digital sociology on changing social relations under the effect of digital technologies (V.F. Nitsevich). The increasing involvement of people in digital technologies mediates habitual social contacts, becoming a part of everyday communications, creating new opportunities, generating digital risks. The research objective is to identify the opportunities and risks, advantages and limitations of digital technologies in education based on identifying the opinions of participants directly involved in the educational process. The main hypothesis was that the mismatch between the existing competencies of participants in the online educational process and necessary competencies for effective organization and participation in the educational process, along with restrictions on the availability of digital technologies, determine the key risks of online education and points growth of participants in the educational process. The positions of teachers on the issues of opportunities and risks, advantages and limitations of the online educational process are identified based on a questionnaire survey of a sectoral university professors with experience of online teaching carried on by the authors. While interpreting the results they use the methods of description, comparison, classification and data interpretation. Results: the study identifies a range of problems caused by the mismatch between the available and required competencies, subjective assessments of the online learning experience. The practical significance of results lies in the fact that studying opportunities and risks, advantages and limitations allows identifying points of growth of participants in the educational process, determining directions and forms of influence on the readiness of participants in the educational process to master and use digital technologies.

Keywords

education digitalization, digital technologies in education, digital competencies, educational practices of teachers,

About the Authors

N. L. Mikidenko

Siberian State University of Telecommunications and Information Sciences; Novosibirsk State Technical University, NSTU
Russian Federation

Natalia L. Mikidenko – Candidate of Sociologiс Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Chair of Sociology, Political Science and Psychology; Associate Professor, Department of Management

86, Kirov Str., Novosibirsk, 630102

20 K. Marx Ave., Novosibirsk, 630073

S. P. Storozheva

Siberian State University of Telecommunications and Information Sciences
Russian Federation

Svetlana P. Storozheva – Candidate of Culturologie, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of Sociology, Political Science and Psychology,

86, Kirov Str., Novosibirsk, 630102

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For citation: Mikidenko N.L., Storozheva S.P. Digital technologies in education: opportunities and risks, advantages and limitations. Professional education in the modern world. 2021;11(1):23-34. https://doi.org/10.20913/2618-7515-2021-1-12

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