USE OF DISTANCE EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR IMPROVING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STUDENTS' PROFESSIONAL FORMATION

The need of increasing the effectiveness of students' professional formation determines the search for new mechanisms, models and technologies of educational processes, organizing a university based on systemic, competency-based and practice-oriented approaches. The theoretical and methodological foundations of increasing the effectiveness of students' professional formation are substantiated, including key scientific approaches (systemic, competency-based, practice-oriented) and the principles of their realization (professional orientation, competitiveness, interdisciplinarity, social partnership, practice orientation, pedagogical support, regionalization). A model for increasing the effectiveness of students' professional formation using distance educational technologies has been developed and experimentally tested. The pedagogical ways of increasing the effectiveness of future specialists' professional formation in universities, using distance educational technologies, have been identified. Distance educational technologies are considered as means of increasing the effectiveness of students' professional formation. Correct use and further development of the abovementioned technologies would improve the overall professional competency of intending specialists in education.