DISTANCE TECHNOLOGIES IN THE TRADITIONAL MODEL OF HIGHER EDUCATION

The paper discusses some aspects of the organisation of higher education based on distance technologies. It shows the advantages and disadvantages of distance . form of higher education versus traditional full-time and part-time . forms. It also considers the role of e-learning and m-learning technologies: the essence and features of blended (mixed, hybrid, combined) learning. The authors describe the experience of managing the educational process at a typical institution of higher education in the conditions of forced transition to distance learning. They allocate the main problems and possible solutions, proceeding from the conditions of efficiency and methodical expediency of certain forms and means. The conducted analysis allowed designing an adaptive fulltime-distance model of training, with the traditional model of higher education remaining unchanged. The proposed approach derives from the focus on the complete transfer of students' independent work to a distance mode for theoretical material and to a combination of fill-time and distance modes for other types of work in a ratio determined by the specific situation. Besides, all preparatory issues are tackled at the beginning of the semester in order to train students to learn according to the proposed scheme.