Transformation of the Educational Services Market in the Russian Federation

Abstract

The modern market for educational services is undergoing major changes. The rapidly evolving digitalization of public life and economic relations, as well as the manifestation of global financial, environmental and, more recently, biological threats, have contributed to the global, large-scale and widespread introduction of remote educational technologies at all levels of the traditional education system. This process has led to the beginning of the transformation of the educational services market in the Russian Federation as well. The emergence of digital remote education at the state level, in fact, changed the classification of the educational services market at the fundamental level, highlighting, besides the market of on-campus and off-campus education, the market of remote educational services. Ideological problems of perception of possible negative results of education, economy and society digitalization by the public arose. The introduction of artificial intelligence-based technologies into the society management system has posed a threat of digital totalitarianism. The prospect of digital design of society in future generations based on mass truncated remote educational services should be a central topic of scientific research and public discussion.