Latest developments and trends in the Russian Higher Education concerning ICT introduction

1. EUROPEAN COMMISSION Tempus JEP – 27081 – 2006 Supporting and facilitating active uptake to Information and Communication Technologies for University Management in Russian Universities Latest developments and trends in the Russian Higher Education concerning ICT introduction February, 2008

2. The strategic goals in 2008 - 2010 The strategic goals in 2008 – 2010: • Content and technology development in education; • Advancement of Education Quality Assurance System; • Enhancement of efficiency in management of education; • Improvement of economical tools in education. ICT is an effective facility to essentially improve implementation of assigned tasks.

3. Key vectors of Education Informatization Strategy Vectorsof development strategy Challenges Challenges I. Content and technology development in education III. Enhancement of management efficiency in the system of education 1. Content 3. Sector Control System The staff training II. Advancement of Education Quality Assurance System IV.Improvement of the economical tools in sphere of education 4. Infrastructure (FCEIR - Federal Center of Educational Information Resources) 2. Network access (connectivity)

4. Resources Supply (2009-2010)

5. Core projects of Education Informatization in 2008-2010 • Information e-Learning resources • Information systems and support tools of educational process • Management Information System in Education • Scientific and Educational Network Infrastructure • Hard- and Software Facilities (computers, system and application software) • Pedagogical, managerial and engineering staff • School Informatization System

6. Building Integrated educational Infomedia for Internet-support of training Principal Stages of Educational Information Resources Building and Development 2012 Key Specifications Basic results 2011 Setting and providing access to specific result-oriented instructional and methodical sources and Internet-based courses. Information, technology and methodology support to create and launch original (user’s) educational e-Learning resources and training courses 2010 4 Management systemsfor education Training Internet-courses, workshops, testing and knowledge control systems  Virtual educational environments 2009 Building Internet-support systems of training 3 Educational e-Learning ResourcesStandards Metadata DatabasesSearch EnginesSubject directories (the publication) The service system of the Federal Center of Information EducationalResources 2008 Building united cataloging and search system of education e-Learning resources 2 Educational portals and websitesUnited access to integrated informational resources Digital educational resourcerepository  The Federal Center of Educational Information Resources (the content) 2007 Educational e-Learning resourcesprimary accumulation 1 2006

7. Enhancement of efficiency in educational system management Sector systems of information interaction and management support for educational establishments: • network and information infrastructure development of computer network central segment in the sector; • updating databases of all-level educational establishments; • updating integrated system of directories and classifiers for education, development of the educational standard for information management systems; • creating of organizational and methodical, as well as normative and legal documents to provide concerted and interconnected development of information management systems; • information analysis systems to support optimization in education; • system building to support information resources security. Core projects

8. Education Quality Assurance System Development 1. Gathering, systematizing and processing of statistic data on educational system (monitoring and statistics in education): • estimating and correcting the main informatization processes in education; • actual researches in information technology application in training. 2. Information support systems to fulfill control and supervision in education sphere, educational establishments licensing and accreditation. 3. Information systems for monitoring and education quality estimating, attestation support for general educational establishments graduates, teachers, scientists, scientific and pedagogical staff. Core projects

9. Enhancement of efficiency in management of educationDevelopment of Education Quality Assurance System 1. Delivery of hard- and software facilities to develop the Infomedia in education (mainly on the basis of resource and regional coordinating and interschool methodical center system): • development of regional centers within the distributed system to support the most demanded federal information resources (mirroring, caching); • development of distributed system of effective access to resources (traffic localization, CDN technology); • development of the Internet-bases services (corporate videoconference communication, IP Telephony, remote access to expensive equipment, distributed calculations and information storage, network capacity dynamic distribution, etc.); • regional segments development of the educational information space. 2. Application software purchase to upgrade the educational process and develop management system in educational establishments. Core projects

10. Core projects to reform theRussian system of education • The priority national project «Education» (“Obrazovaniye”) • The Federal Target Program for Education Development • The project “Educational System Informatization”

11. Core projects implementation for education informatization (2008) Informatization systems for management in education • the sector system development of information interaction and support for management and optimization in educational establishments • gathering, systematizing and processing the statistic data on educational system (monitoring and statistics in education) • information support systems to fulfill control and supervision in education, educational establishments licensing and accreditation • information systems for monitoring and education quality estimating, attestation support for general education establishments graduates, teachers, scientists, scientific and pedagogical staff