PROSPECTS FOR THE USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN RUSSIAN HIGHER EDUCATION

Scholars extensively discuss the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education during at least last decade.The integration of AI into educational process at the beginning was affordable to limited number of higher education institutions (HEIs), in many cases introduced through the collaboration with world leading IT companies, such as IBM, Google, etc.At the beginning, HEIs implemented AI mainly in distant education, and implication of AI in higher education included following common directions: assessment and evaluation, adaptive content and personalization, tutoring.Therefore, most of scholars studied how the AI could be integrated into educational process from the universities' side.However, now given that many of AI applications becomes more and more affordable to students, universities have to revise the approach to assignments and evaluation.The study systemizes the experience of leading Russian universities during the last few years in integrating AI tools into the activities of students and employees and reveals the prospects for its further use.