Distance learning as an imperative for digitalization of education

Abstract

The rapid development and penetration of information technologies into various spheres of human life lead to significant issues of improving the learning processes and their partial digitalization in higher educational institutions. Initially, the processes of education digitalization were focused on the creation of sites made for practicing and video content accompanying the discipline, teaching of which was carried out in the classical form of traditional classroom learning, in order to provide free access to materials with the goal of a deeper education and understanding of the studied sections. The introduction of online lectures and master classes with the involvement of experts from companies and organizations nterested in raduates of higher educational institutions made it possible to expand the degree of interaction with the target audience, to motivate the study of additional aspects of professional disciplines. However, the events of 2020 have radically changed the role and significance of education digitalization. The coronavirus COVID-19 arrived in Russia at the end of January 2020. In March, a period of forced self-isolation started, which required the prompt formation of online education systems in higher education institutions. The main issue of education digitalization today is development and creation of high-quality technologies. For professor of higher institutions, it is relevant to ntroduce technologies for effective interaction with students both in traditional classroom learning and online, creating high-quality video content, the ability to quickly respond to external factors and combine different forms of educational technologies to achieve the appropriate level of knowledge dictated by the modern market labor.