Positive and negative aspects of digitalization of higher education in Uzbekistan

Abstract

Modern higher education in Uzbekistan today pays more and more attention to the possibility of using digital technologies in the educational process. The urgency of introducing distance learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic revealed, first of all, the unpreparedness of students and teachers of the university to conduct classes in this format. The skill requirements of students have changed using digital learning technologies. After analyzing the works of many scientists, they came to the conclusion that the wider application of digital technologies in the sphere of higher education in Uzbekistan requires a thorough study of this process, comparing the positive and negative sides. In this article, an analysis of the interaction of teachers and students within the framework of digital environments was carried out, the capabilities of each environment were identified, and the disadvantages of each of them were identified. Using Foresight methods, the interests, opportunities and perception of digital technologies by the main participants in education, as well as the consequences and social risks of digitalization of higher education, were studied. The necessity of systematizing the social effects of digitalization of higher education and, in the future, carrying out the corresponding complex research has been substantiated. © 2022 American Institute of Physics Inc.. All rights reserved.