DISTANT LEARNING: PRIMARY DATA ANALYSIS OF THE ASSESSMENT OF THE CURRENT SITUATION

Abstract

The main objective of study is the primary analysis of the attitude of respondents to the new form of education (distance education) to determine the characteristics of the process, dynamics, opportunities and threats. To identify these tendencies, a survey was posted on the Internet, as well as offered to the participants locally. In the course of the study, in order to compare local data and data on Russia with data abroad, the existing questionnaire was translated into English and with appropriate changes reflecting the specifics of the foreign education system, was also made available on the website. The results obtained make it possible to assess the current attitude of the participants of the educational process to distance education. The study is supposed to help generate data to enable an initial assessment of the situation. Using the respondents’ responses, we can see the areas that caused the problems, identify the risks and start predicting their consequences.