RELEVANCE AND PROSPECTS OF DISTANCE EDUCATION

Abstract

The article examines the relevance, perspective and development of distance education in higher education. Attention is focused on its features and advantages, the possibility of obtaining higher education remotely, which is caused by the need to study without being separated from production.  The author notes that distance learning is a form of education based on the use of a wide range of traditional and new information and telecommunication technologies which, at different stages of the educational process, ensure interactive interaction between teachers and students, students with each other and independent work of each with the materials of the information network. It is emphasized that an obligatory part of the educational process in the context of distance learning is the communication of the teacher with each student.