Assessment of potential advanced smart technologies implementations in the practice of Russian education

the article is devoted to assessing the potential advanced smart technologies implementations of the Russian Federation educational institutions. The author focuses on the lag behind the demands of society, despite the accelerating digitalization of education; arguments are made in favor of further educational process technologization through the use of flexible systems including smart education. The paper unfolds the essence of the concepts «smart education», «smart technology», presents and describes smart technologies that have been successfully implemented in various countries of the world, and highlights the requirements for their use in the educational process. Based on the analysis of the official statistical data for 2010-2018 and the results of a poll conducted in 2018 by the NAFI Analytical Centre the households and educational institutions provision necessary for the implementation of smart technologies equipment and Internet access was identified, as well as students and teachers abilities in digital skills. As a result, the author makes conclusion that there are smart technologies that can be implemented in the Russian education and smart technologies that can be used only if a number of conditions are met.