E-Learning Development Strategy of the University: Comparative Study

The development of e-learning as an object of management in higher education institutions, as a rule, corresponds to a
simple model of transition from the stage of initiative implementation at the level of individual teachers, departments or
divisions to the stage of centralized strategic management of the implementation of e-learning tools, processes and
methods at the institutional level. Although the development and application of e-learning technologies in the educational
process is still an individual innovation, today it is part of the national policy for the development of higher education and
affects the assessment of the effectiveness and competitiveness of universities. It means that institutional e-learning
development strategy bridges the individual innovation activity of teachers and national priorities in quality and accessibility
of higher education. Therefore, the objective of the research is to summarize, compare and study the e-learning
development strategies of the higher educational institutions from EU, Russia, Australia and South-Asia to distinguish major
types of the strategies, as well as tools and mechanisms embedded to achieve strategic goals. As a result of the comparative
analysis of 20 e-learning development strategies of universities authors offer recommendations for the strategy structure
depending on the functional and evolutional type of the strategy that were identified in the paper. This research was funded
by RFBR, project number 20-010-00571 The Impact of Digital Transformation on Improving the Quality and Innovation of
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