Legal and Organizational Barriers of Digitalization of Education in the Russian Federation

Abstract

The aim of the study is to identify the legal and organizational barriers to digitalization and digital transformation of education in the Russian Federation and to develop proposals for improving the startup planning and legal regulation in this area. The study presents the authors’ method of identifying the barriers. The main feature of this methodology (based on the comparative-law method and structural and functional analysis) is its focus on identifying the legal and organizational barriers to digitalization not only of the educational process itself, but also of the life cycle of the educational organization as a whole. The key legal and organizational barriers to digitalization for education were identifi ed and systematized. It was concluded that there remains a signifi cant number of barriers not only to digitalization, but also to primary informatization in the fi eld. The authors substantiate proposals for improvement of strategic planning and legal regulation, aimed at eliminating the identifi ed barriers and forming of legal conditions for digitalization and, in the long term, the digital transformation of Russian education.