Formation of the Institute of Distance Learning as a Part of the Ecosystem of Modern Education

Abstract

The modern model of education involves the use of digital educational technologies, including network ones. The emergence of such technologies caused the rapid development of distance learning and served as a prerequisite for its separation into a special type of modern education. The modernization of education, due to the introduction of distance learning into the educational process, has not yet yielded the expected results. The article examines the process of forming the institutionalization of distance education. The analysis of this process carried out by the authors of the article is important from the point of view of understanding the formation of this area of modern education, which occurs to some extent spontaneously, without effective management by state bodies. Sociological studies show that there are only some positive shifts in the field of creating conditions for the educational process, and practically nothing has changed in the process itself and in its results. In this case, the question of improving distance learning and management of this important area of modern education is natural. The authors believe that management problems can be identified by considering the subject-subject relations of the participants in the educational process. In this regard, surveys were conducted of administrators, trainers, and students from 46 educational organizations of the Russian Federation to determine the problems of distance learning. The surveys revealed two types of problems (organizational and methodological) that hinder effective distance learning. In the future, the results of this study are supposed to be used to solve theoretical and methodological problems and develop methods for the implementation of distance learning, considering Russian specifics, as well as to form a strategy of state educational policy in this area.