Prospects for the development of distance education in Ukraine: methodological aspect

The article identifies and characterizes the organizational and pedagogical preconditions, patterns, features of the development of distance education in Ukraine, analyzes its role in solving the problem of modernization of vocational education in Ukraine. The main trends in the development of distance education and new learning technologies in Ukraine, based on modern information and telecommunication means of manipulating educational information, have been studied in order to find out the prospects for its further development. The principles of modeling the process of distance learning are disclosed, which allow creating a special learning environment in any geographical location and due to the didactic tasks of higher education. The concept of variable modeling of distance training systems for a future specialist by creating a special learning environment in any geographical location has been developed and theoretically substantiated. The organizational and pedagogical conditions for the effective implementation of distance learning models in the current system of training specialists in higher education are shown.