The impact of the digital technological platforms on the institutional system of the higher education during the COVID 19 pandemic

The article is devoted to the assessment of the impact of the digital technological platforms on the higher education in the new conditions of the Covid-19 pandemic. The modern literature presents the various approaches to the analysis of the current situation in the higher education. The novelty of the authors ' approach is that the institutional system of the higher education is analyzed from the standpoint of the theories of new institutionalism. The authors considered the institutional system of the higher education as a four-level system. The article presents assessing the impact of the digital technological platforms on the first level of the institutional system of the higher education, which is represented by deeply rooted informal institutions (values, traditions, customs, unwritten norms and rules, and more). Assessing the impact of the digital technological platforms on other levels of the institutional system of the higher education requires the additional prospective research.


Introduction
The COVID 19 pandemic creates a fundamentally new situation in all spheres of society. Education had changed during the pandemic significantly, as other sectors of society. The OECD in collaboration with UNESCO, UNICEF and the World Bank has been monitoring the situation and collecting data on how many students are in pandemic conditions. In 2020, 1.5 billion students in 188 countries were involved in such situation [1].
The impact of the pandemic on society is so profound that many scientists support the thesis that after overcoming the pandemic, education will no longer have a situation "as usual." From the beginning of 2020 to the present, scientists have analyzed many issues as follows. First, changes in the methods of teaching university students based on the widespread use of remote digital technologies [2,3,4]. Secondly, the creation of favorable conditions during the pandemic for the uptake of educational material and the maintenance of a high level of quality of education, despite the remote communication between students and teachers [5,6]. Third, the needs to adapt the existing open-source learning digital platforms like the Moodle (Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment) based on the Internet to the possibility of a rapid shifting from full-time training to training under condition of the full or partial lockdowns [7,8].
The analysis of published works shows a naturally increased interest of researchers to the didactic side of the new educational situation [9,10]. Some authors have discussed the psychological and pedagogical issues, proposing certain solutions for the socialization of students and teachers under the conditions of a long absence of direct communication with a team of fellow students or colleagues [11,12].
In our opinion, with the collection of facts in the period of the pandemic, an integrated approach to the study of the deeper problem of the influence of the digital technological platforms on the institutional system of the higher education is relevant. At the same time, the institutional system of the higher education should be determined from the point of view of modern theories of institutionalism.
According to the views of representatives of institutionalism, the institutional system of the higher education is considered as a 4-tier system [13,14]. Institutions of the first level transfer the prevailing values, traditions, customs, and rules to all members of the society. These are the informal institutions that regulate ingrained norms of behavior in society, including in the educational environment [15]. The second level of the institutional system of the of higher education is represented by formal institutions that reflect the specifics of national higher education systems established by national legislation and international standards adopted by national States. Each country has an extensive legal framework that regulates the field of higher education. In the Russian Federation, the legislative base in the field of higher education is based on the Constitution of the RF, Civil code of RF and the "Law on Education in the Russian Federation (the amendments entering into force on 01.09.2020). In the modern world, almost all national states are members of integration groups (for example, EU, CIS, etc.), or are members of international organizations (UN, OECD, SCO and others). Modern states voluntarily assume obligations to implement the international agreements in the field of higher education. For example, obligations arising from the accession of countries to the Bologna system. The third level includes institutions of governance, which directly manage state universities. The third level includes institutions of governance, which directly manage state universities, which are represented by two types of universities (an autonomous educational institution and budget educational institution of higher education). In Russia, institutions of governance include the Ministry of Science and Higher and the Education of the Russian Federation. At the same time, the latter one carries out the general management of 33 pedagogical universities. The Federal Education and Science Supervisory Service, which operates structurally in the system of the Government of the RF, monitors the implementation of the legislation by public and private universities [16]. The fourth level of institutional system of the higher education is composed of the University Charter, regulatory and administrative acts issued by universities, including in the execution of decisions of institutions of governance. This level includes the rules and norms prescribed in educational contracts with students and contracts with teachers, as well as university employees [17].
During the pandemic COVID 19, all levels of the institutional system of higher education have experienced certain changes, which are associated with the growing role of information technologies and digital technological platforms. The aim of the complex project of study is to identify how the teachers of higher education and the students from different areas of training and different courses of study at the university assess the impact of the digital technological platforms, in particular, using the Moodle platform, on the main elements of the institutional system of higher education. This paper presents the interim results concerning the assessment by university teachers of the impact of the digital technology platforms at the first level of the institutional system of higher education and shows the overall assessment by students of changes in the educational process associated with the shifting to digital technology platforms. Further continuation of the project will allow us to assess the complex impact of digital technology platforms at all other levels of the institutional system of higher education.

Methodology and methods
Various methods of study were used including literature analysis, survey, questionnaire, matching, graphic methods, comparison, review and interpretation. The empirical material was made up of the results of a survey of 25 teachers of the Institute of Social Studies and Humanities of MPSU that was conducted in February 2021. A survey of teachers and students has included the following stages: the development of research tools, conducting a survey, analysis of survey results and graphical representation for better visualization.
The important data source for analysis was the information on the analytical report named "Monitoring of trainees 'opinions on satisfaction issues quality of educational process". That report was made based on the results of a survey of 4,798 students and postgraduate students of various courses studying at MPSU during the period from December 2020 to mid-February 2021.

Results and discussion
The analysis of the content of the teachers ' answers to the questions allow us to give a detailed assessment of the impact of digital technological platforms (DTP) on the first level of institutional system of higher education (ISHE). First, a fundamental question was asked about whether the implementation of the DTP has an impact on the change of informal institutions in the field of higher education (values, traditions, customs, informal rules of behavior etc.). As it follows from Figure 1 the most of the teachers, who participated in the questionnaire acknowledged the facts of the change in informal institutions in the field of higher education.   The negative attitude of 63% of teachers causes the impossibility of a direct "alive" communication with students at lecture and seminars However, 25% of survey participants agree that a reasonable combination of traditional lectures and DPT is needed. Shifting to DTP did not have a dramatic effect on the moral and psychological climate in the teaching team. teachers and 25% of teachers noted the deterioration of the moral and psychological climate in the teaching team (see Fig. 4). A survey of students of MPGU showed that higher marks compared to 2019 were given in relation to the effectiveness of the use of electronic technologies and the organization of control of independent work through the Moodle system. This is explained by the imperative need for the urgent implementation of these technologies into the educational process in the spring of 2020. It can be argued that the COVID 19 pandemic has led to students ' awareness of the value of learning and the importance of making better use of Moodle's capabilities.
On the survey period, 21.9% of the surveyed students stated that they had no problems with learning during shifting to DTP. As it follows from the survey, 687 students (25%) were satisfied with everything and 30.8 % of the students did not want any changes. The fact that 10.6% of the surveyed students wanted to switch to full-time education, but only 6.7% voted for the extension of distance learning on the basis of the DTP testifies to the contradictory assessment of young people of the role of DTP in the educational process.

Conclusion
The analysis of the results of a survey of university teachers allowed showing the ambiguous assessments of the impact of DTP on the first level of ISHE during the COVID 19 pandemic. It should be taken into account that these assessments were influenced by the restrictions imposed by the state during the COVID 19 pandemic. Teachers of the higher school expressed a clearly negative attitude towards the prospect of eliminating lecture and seminar classes at universities, which provide an opportunity for teachers and students to communicate face to face. The main concern of university teachers is related to the possibility of the elimination of the alive direct communication between the students and lectors. University teachers consider communication as an unconditional value of society, which makes it possible to transfer not only information, but also experience and cultural code. Naturally, the results of the survey allow us to conclude that the cost of higher education is practically unchanged in any conditions, including in connection with the transition to DPT.
The contradictory responses of the students participating in the survey indicate that students are in the stage of adaptation after an unexpected transition to e:learning using Moodle. On the one hand, a little more than 10% of the surveyed students have expressed a desire to come back to full-time education, but, on the other hand, about 7% wanted to continue to study using DTP instead of classroom lessons with teachers. More detailed conclusions about the attitude of students to DTP as a technological tool, which one affects all aspects of the educational process can be made after the end of the COVID 19 pandemic. Based on the interim results of our study, it can be argued with certainty that the completion of the current project requires the continuation of the research of the issue related the impact of DTP on other levels of ISHE.