Distance Learning in the Context of the Digital Economy

Relevance. The digitalization of the economy of the Russian Federation includes the introduction of information technologies in its various spheres. The education sector, on the one hand, is a service sector, and, on the other hand, it forms not only knowledge, but also professional skills, providing the country's economy with personnel. The pandemic and self-isolation predetermined the relevance of the digitalization of the economy, including the service sector, by making an emergency transition of educational institutions to a distance learning format. This study was carried out to study the urgent transfer of the educational process to an on-line format, which made it possible to develop distance learning in the field of higher education and revealed new problems of digitalization of education.
The purposis identify, on the basis of empirical analysis, the problem of the formation of professional skills in the framework of distance learning in higher education.
Objectives: determine, using the example of South-West State University, resources for organizing distance learning; find out the problems that arise during lectures and practical classes in the on-line format; to identify the problems of obtaining professional skills during the period of distance learning; investigate the attitude of students to conducting practical training in the framework of distance learning.
Methodology. In this study, a descriptive method, methods of questioning, correlation analysis, synthesis, analysis, generalization are used, which make it possible to identify the problems of distance learning, to study the attitude of students to conducting classes and obtaining professional skills. Empirical studies and theoretical generalizations were carried out on the basis of author's works, questionnaires of SWSU students, and official statistics.
Results. When the university transferred the educational process to a distance format, the adaptation of students was successful. Among the most popular resources for organizing distance learning during a pandemic, respondents noted Zoom, the university portal - do.swsu.ru, Vkontakte, WhatsApp, and e-mail. Most of the respondents noted the good quality of the transition to the new training format. Professional skills of students in electronic and distance formats are formed, mainly, theoretical. With regard to their receipt, the difficulty of their formation in a new format was revealed due to a number of reasons, the main of which are the lack of special professional equipment and tools; lack of direct contact with a professional (teacher).
Conclusions. The characteristics proposed in the article make it possible to quantitatively and qualitatively describe the use of distance learning in higher education, and the identified problems of the formation of professional skills in a new format will improve distance learning by expanding the material and technical base capable of providing effective teacher-student feedback, creating specific applied packages , suitable and taking into account the peculiarities of those or other areas of training. This will be facilitated by a critical attitude to the technologies being introduced.

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