TENDENCY OF DISTANCE EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT IN THE SYSTEM OF INDEPENDENT EDUCATION

Abstract

The issues of distance learning in the system of continuous education have been presented in this article. The leading tendency in its development has been proved. The views of scholars on the different aspects of the distance education problem are described. It is made clear that the most researchers consider distance learning as an innovative educational product, and as the most effective means of ensuring continuing education, the content of which depends on the events occurring in society. It has been established that the generator of changes in the practice of distance education in the whole world became the United Kingdom Open University, which gave a high prestige to distance learning, and also encouraged the emergence of such universities in many, both developed industrial and developing countries. It is proved that the process of transition from industrial to informational society involves the introduction of the newest pedagogical technologies into the educational process of higher educational institutions, provides opportunities for updating the content and methods of teaching, the ways of presenting educational information, the use of computer technologies with high power. The importance and necessity of purposeful realization of scientific, comparative-pedagogical analysis of foreign experience in organizing distance learning, which will stimulate the mobile introduction of world innovations into the national system of pedagogical education and increase the possibilities of its integration into the world of pedagogical space, is emphasized. It has been established that with the formation of socio-economic, scientific and personal preconditions, distance education has acquired its historical significance for a person and society, has found a corresponding embodiment in real reality, its development is closely intertwined with the development of social and economic relations.