Digitization and Transition to Sustainable Development: The Problem of Their Integration in the Educational Context

A. D. Ursul*

Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991 Russia

Correspondence to: *e-mail: ursul-ad@mail.ru

Received 11 November, 2019

Abstract—The interaction of the process of digitalization of education and deepening of education for sustainable development is considered and the need to study such integration is substantiated. The contradictions of these two megatrends of world education are revealed and analyzed. The question of how to use digitalization more effectively to change the content of education to assist the transition to sustainable development is investigated.

Keywords: global sustainability, informatization, information approach, education for sustainable development, online education, generation theory, smart education, sustainable development, futurization, digitalization

DOI: 10.3103/S0005105520010045