Digital Education and Personal Safety

Abstract

The article concerns the process of digitalization of education in the context of the analysis of the personal safety problem. The aim of the study was to assess the impact of digitalization of education on a person in terms of its safety and to diagnose emerging challenges in education related to accelerated digital transition in 2020. The empirical sources for the study were as following: an expert survey of teachers, focus group interviews, and an online survey with teachers of general and vocational education schools. The results of the conducted empirical and theoretical research allowed the author to identify the key problems that arise on the way to digitalization of education, to systematize them and to put forward recommendations to reverse negative scenarios. The obtained results can be used by researchers of digital society issues, teachers, administrators of information networks, and information security specialists in education.