Distance education as a flexible form of learning in the modern society of knowledge and information

Abstract

The modern world trends in the development of education are considered. The state and trends in the development of distance education abroad and in Ukraine are analyzed. Challenges and threats to the national interests of Ukraine in case of lagging behind in the field of distance learning are identified. Measures are proposed to spread distance education in Ukraine and increase its quality and accessibility. The article reveals the theoretical and methodological foundations of the innovative technology of the organization of the educational process - the distance learning system as one of the important factors of pedagogical interaction. The authors analyze the features of distance learning, determines its possibilities for optimizing the process of pedagogical interaction. Conclusions and prospects for further research. At the time of implementation of political and administrative reforms in Ukraine. Under these conditions, a similar situation exists in the field of training, retraining and advanced training of the personnel corps of civil servants. Taking into account the scale and territorial expansion of the education system of Ukraine, to ensure high-quality retraining of teaching and managerial personnel at the pace of planned reforms according to traditional technology of learning and forms of education is considered impossible. It is necessary to flexibly and comprehensively use the most modern technologies and forms education, and, first of all, distance education. Summarizing all of the above, taking into account the perspective of distance education and the current state of theory and practice in Ukraine, it should be pointed out the absolute urgency of conducting a wide range of research and development aimed at creating a reliable scientific foundation of the national education system. The teaching staff and computer network of pilot secondary schools of Ukraine, which is currently actively developing, scientific and professorial staff and computer networks of higher educational institutions and scientific institutions of the National Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Pedagogy should become the personnel and experimental and technological base for this. of Sciences of Ukraine, which actively research and introduce this modern form of learning and education into educational practice, educational and scientific production complexes, such as the Distance Education Academy, were specially created to solve the problems of education. It is necessary to comprehensively study and implement into the practice of DO Ukraine the relevant advanced domestic and foreign experience, develop and implement organizational-management and normative-legislative provision of this promising form of education. Thus, we can say that the presence of the initial factor, the transformation methodology and the final result, as well as direct and feedback links between subjects and objects, suggests that distance learning is an open system. Taking the cybernetic understanding of the system as a basis, we can identify the typology of solving the main problems by the distance learning system. We can say that this is the simplest type of tasks - trivial, since we know the outgoing information, methods of its transformation and final information. But at present, the distance learning system is in such a state that we cannot unequivocally assert that this system is perfect from the point of view of the methodology for transforming the initial information. Therefore, from the point of view of its sufficiency, the system is more suitable for the type of problem "search", since the outgoing and final information is known, and the method of its transformation and receipt is unknown. These conclusions confirm the relevance of the development and improvement of the distance learning system. The openness of the distance learning system from the point of view of practice is confirmed by the principle of humanity. In accordance with this principle, the distance learning system is open to anyone wishing to get a higher education or improve their professional level of knowledge. As a result of the objective process of informatization of society and education, absorbing the best features of other forms of the educational process, distance learning at the present stage of development and modernization of higher educational institutions is the most promising, integral form of education among traditional forms. From the point of view of openness, distance learning is confirmed by universality, which is based on the use of traditional and information technologies. IT - technologies create comfort for students, namely free choice of training courses, dialogue exchange with the teacher, where the learning process does not depend on the location of the student in time and space. Distance education is a system where the process of distance learning takes place. The information and educational environment of distance learning is a systemically organized set of information resources, means of interaction, organizational and methodological support and an orientation towards meeting the educational needs of the population. Distance learning is a form that ensures the use of the latest technical means to deliver educational materials and information directly to the consumer.