ORGANIZATIONAL BARRIERS IN DISTANCE EDUCATION: PERSONNEL ASPECTS
ORGANIZATIONAL BARRIERS IN DISTANCE EDUCATION: PERSONNEL ASPECTS

Summary/Abstract: The use of remote sensing technologies in higher educational institutions in a process of preparation of bachelors and masters in conditions of transition to a new educational standards is a vital task in the framework of new educational law as well as eagerness of students to combine learning and work and other circumstances. In these cases Russian universities started to implement distance learning programs. However, in the process of implementation they explore a number of organizational problems. The article presents the results of author's research that demonstrate partial reluctance and unwillingness of some professors and teachers to participate in distance education as well as difficulties in development of distance learning courses, the establishment of assessment tools, the compilation of final report, group discussions, etc. The study was conducted by questioning teachers from 27 universities and academies of Moscow as well as 50 experts. Total sample included 340 people, the coefficient of an error - 0.3%. On the basis of this research, the program "Organizational, methodological and didactic foundations of distance learning" was developed and implemented for teaching staff of higher and secondary professional educational institutions. The program aims to teach them modern innovative technologies and to prepare them for the use of distance learning technologies in their practice. The main part staff of the Department of Economics and Management in the social sphere of the Academy of labor and social relations have finished this program. And now it is not a problem to work in e-learning system for most of them.

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