Skills of working in a digital environment among students of professional educational programs

Natalia Bondarenko and Nikolay Shugal ()
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Nikolay Shugal: National Research University Higher School of Economics (Russian Federation)

Monitoring of Education Markets and Organizations (MEMO), 2021, issue 16, 1-6

Abstract: The vocational education system faced in 2020 with a new format of educational activity - distance learning. An important condition for this transition, in addition to the ability of educational organizations to build the educational process in a digital environment and the level of the relevant skills of teachers, is the willingness of the students themselves. In this regard, it is advisable to consider two aspects: the technical resources of students as a condition for the formation of skills and the skills themselves for working in new conditions. The issue assesses the digital skills of students, formed by the beginning of 2020. The study is based on microdata from the all-Russian sample observation of Rosstat on the use of information technologies and information and telecommunication networks by the population. The analysis of the development of skills in working in a digital environment was carried out according to the Eurostat methodology, which takes into account the possession of universal (including cognitive) skills in key areas of ICT that are relevant for the organization of effective online learning. The scale of the shortage of digital resources and skills of students in general and in the context of individual groups was assessed. This will allow adapting the educational process and educational programs for a more balanced development of skills in working in a digital environment. The digital literacy rate of students tends to be higher than that of most other populations, but the situation among students is highly heterogeneous. In this regard, significant differences are expected in the results of adaptation to the online format and the effectiveness of learning in a digital environment. The share of those who do not have basic skills among students of secondary vocational education (SVE) programs is significantly higher than among students of higher education (HE) programs. The risks of digital exclusion are high among students from rural areas. It is in these groups that the lack of necessary digital resources and problems of access to high-quality Internet are most acutely felt. In Russia as a whole, the overwhelming majority (89%) of students did not experience problems with digital resources and access to high-quality Internet. Students need not only to develop digital skills, but also to be able to apply them in academic (especially extracurricular), independent work and further career. It was the universal (cognitive) skills of working in a digital environment that turned out to be insufficient for the successful reformatting of educational activity.

Keywords: education institutions; preschool education; education market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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