Digital Educational Ecosystem: Transformation and Development Trends of Online Education

Abstract

The authors’ research focuses on the transformation of the online education market in the current context and the creation of the concept of a digital educational ecosystem. The relevance of the topic can be substantiated by reasons that are associated with the overall digitalisation of the economy and the COVID-19 pandemic. Determination of the reasons for the transformation of the conventional hierarchical education system, the rapid development of the online education market and, as a consequence, the development of the concept of a digital educational ecosystem as a present-day approach to arranging for the educational environment in the context of the society’s transition to a new technological set-up, networkisation of the world educational space and active implementation of digital technologies in the educational process is defined by the authors as the key goal of the research. Based on the empirical data analysis, a conclusion is made about the accelerated rates of development of the online education market, the predicted value of the growth rate of online education in the future in the short term. The author’s vision of the digital educational ecosystem as a network infrastructure, which shapes a single technological educational platform with digital technologies, creates conditions for effective interaction between the stakeholders through the provision of tailored educational services based on taking into account the interests of consumers, is formulated.