ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF DISTANCE LEARNING IN UNIVERSITIES (BASED ON THE RESULTS OF A STUDENT SURVEY)

Abstract

The aim of the article is to study the disadvantages and advantages of distance learning in higher education and to determine the main trends and prospects for its development in the Russian Federation. During the study, general scientific methods, questionnaires, grouping, classification, structural analysis, comparative analysis, graphical method were used. The article provides a detailed analysis of the practice of using distance learning by universities in the Altai Territory in a pandemic. The study examined the views of medical students and economics students on the quality and prospects of distance education, as well as the impact of distance learning on the developed online courses on the level of satisfaction and mastery of academic disciplines. The majority of students consider distance education to be advisable only within the framework of a mixed educational model, along with the traditional one. Distance education attracts the student audience with flexibility, accessibility and a free learning schedule. Distance education is, on the one hand, an innovative and promising direction in the development of the education system in Russia. But, on the other hand, it can be most successfully applied in the training of specialists only in conjunction with the methods of traditional teaching.