Digital Inequality and its Overcoming as a Guarantee of Equal Access to Education in the Russian Federation

At the present stage of society’s development, the introduction of digital tools is obvious in many spheres of life, in particular in the field of education, which causes the widespread need for high information and digital literacy of students and teachers of various educational organizations. The COVID‑19 pandemic required serious adjustments to the educational process around the world, as educational organizations had to rebuild the learning process and transfer it to an online environment. In turn, that led to the inability of many to receive education at the level of a conventional off-line education. The paper raises the problem of digital inequality in Russian education. The author highlights the most important aspects of such inequality, concerning material and technical support, skills and abilities of participants in the educational process, content of the educational process in the context of digitalization, and suggests ways to overcome them. The paper analyzes the provisions of the national project «Education,» the national program «Digital Economy of the Russian Federation,» as well as the provisions of federal projects. Based on the analysis, the author concludes that the advantages of digitalization in the educational sphere are used unequally.

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