Problems of online education during the pandemic

Abstract

The topic of the work is of scientific and practical relevance, as there is a need to find ways to overcome the barriers to the effective functioning of online education during the global coronavirus pandemic. Russian higher education was faced with the need to suddenly change the principles of its work and transfer the vast majority of classes to an online format, which turned out to be associated with many practical problems that did not allow online education to function productively. As part of this work, an attempt is made to evaluate the rich experience of Western higher education in the application of online technologies and develop recommendations for the implementation of some effective solutions in the Russian social reality. The main research method is the analysis of documents and scientific publications. The following problems observed both in Russian and Western higher education were identified: digital divide, digital literacy, class lag, alienation from the educational process, virtualization of educational space, asynchronous communication and the inadequacy of coursework. The above problems create obstacles and barriers that do not allow Russian online education to function in full force, and require serious work to optimize the educational process. A recommendation was made to abandon non-contact online learning, the development of materials to improve the digital literacy of the teaching staff, as well as the need to unify the educational online space and create a Russian digital platform that will accumulate all the classes of state universities