The Future of E-Learning in Kazakhstan

The purpose of the article is a critical analysis of the situation on the implementation and development of e-Learning in Kazakhstan in the next 10 years. E-Learning is the main direction in the development of Kazakhstani education. Government approved national programs that support sustainable development of e-Learning (till 2020). E-learning is being implemented at all levels of the education system: from primary to high school. Over the past ten years, many scientists have tried to adopt a national vision for e-learning development. Kazakhstan has national center for informatisation of educational system and tries to create a unified electronic library. Implementation of national eLearning project is provided in two stages (first stage 2011-2015 and the second 2016-2020). The project involves providing schools with digital educational resources, broadband Internet. Teachers and students will have access to the world's best educational resources and learning technologies. Over the past three years a number of experiments were conducted for introducing e-Learning in several cities of the country. However, not all implementation experience had positive results. We found some problems and barriers to the successful development of e-Learning in Kazakhstan. Although in general the process of implementing e-Learning has been successful and has shown readiness of the educational system to the introduction of electronic forms of learning.