Organization of distance learning for students in the context of COVID-19 as a factor of innovation in the educational environment

Abstract

Distance learning today is one of the key areas of renewal of all parts of the educational system of Russia. Due to the spread of the global coronavirus pandemic, more than 1.5 billion students and young people around the world were forced to switch to the online learning format outside of academic institutions. Therefore, the university faced the problem of changing the methods of organizing the educational process. An urgent task s to organize educational interaction in a distance format, namely with the help of distance learning technologies. Informatization of education in Russia is one of the most important mechanisms affecting the main directions of modernization of the educational system. Modern information technologies open up new prospects for improving the efficiency of the educational process. The very paradigm of education is changing. A great role is attached to the methods of active cognition, self-education. There is a need to teach the student to solve typical and atypical tasks independently, to search for information, to constantly master new knowledge. To implement this, new approaches are needed to organize educational activities and create the necessary conditions. As a result, a rather promising, individualization–oriented new form of the educational process has emerged - distance learning.