STAGES OF DISTANCE EDUCATION
Ключові слова:
distance education, distance learning system, higher education, integrated stages, knowledge-intensive educational environment, types of distance educationАнотація
Distance education has always offered much more opportunities for learning than formal educational systems. In modern higher institutions, the students in obtaining professional knowledge and skills tend to use a wide range of modern technological devices, which provide possibilities for studying interactively and independently. The task of distance education is to organize the effective studying process with the minimal teacher’s interference. The paper is devoted to the outlining of distance education main integrated stages. A brief overview of the distance education is given as a structured set of informational resources, organizational and methodological techniques, special computer programs, and as an independent didactic system including a number of important components. The main types of the distance education process in a knowledge-intensive educational environment of the traditional organization of the educational process were analyzed according to their potential for practical implementation of distance education system.Посилання
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