In Russia, a digital student profile will be introduced. An experiment on its implementation is planned to be carried out by the end of 2022. The concept of the project on behalf of the profile Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko prepared by the Ministry of Education, it should be approved by the Ministry of Finance. This is written by “Kommersant” with reference to the document and the source.
What is a digital student profile?
A student’s digital profile is a service that allows you to create and add to a student’s digital portfolio. It will record the various achievements of the child.
According to “Kommersant”, information from the existing registers of executive authorities and state information systems can be added to the digital profile. TASS writes that the service will work within the framework of the state information system (GIS) “My School”.
The child’s family will independently determine what achievements should be included in the digital portfolio, said the director of the Department of Digital Transformation and Big Data of the Ministry of Education Pavel Kuzmin.
“In fact, when moving from school to school, when moving from region to region, when entering higher education institutions, it would be convenient to have a selection of all the achievements of the child, and we are now talking about positive results,” he said…& gt; in digital form», — explained the director of the department on the air of the channel & laquo; Russia 24 & raquo; on June 8.
First of all, the portfolio will include data on the achievements of schoolchildren in education, culture and sports. This was stated by the Deputy Minister of Education of the Russian Federation Tatiana Vasilyeva during the international conference on new technologies in education EdCrunch Kuzbass in Kemerovo on June 9.
Will the digital profile be mandatory?
“Kommersant” with reference to the concept of the project wrote that they want to make a digital profile mandatory and register it when enrolling a child in kindergarten or first grade.
Later, Kuzmin denied plans to create a single mandatory digital portfolio for each student. According to him, parents of schoolchildren will decide for themselves whether to create a portfolio in digital form or continue to conduct it in the usual way, accumulating paper diplomas and certificates.
Who will have access to the digital portfolio?
According to Vasilyeva, only the students themselves will be able to create a digital portfolio. And only they will have access to a personal account, where information about their academic and extracurricular achievements will be collected.
The portfolio data can only be disclosed with the consent of its owner. The student will be able to share their achievements with educational organizations at their own discretion when transferring to another school, entering a college or university.