APPLICATION OF DISTANT EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC: RUSSIAN AND INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS

The problems arising in the course of transition to the digital form of education which are common for the majority of countries are analyzed in the present scientific paper. The basic challenges for all the groups involved in the process of transition to the on-line medium - schoolchildren, teachers, parents as well as decision makers - are considered in the article. On the basis of the studies of the above problems and considering progressive experience of different countries the authors suggested practical recommendations for introduction of on-line education. Thus, it is considered to be urgent to apply the existing educational platforms along with the novel ones as well as establishment of international cooperation aimed at interchange of educational on-line resources. It is substantiated that the crisis in educational system caused by COVID-19 pandemic reveals vulnerability in educational systems; it also stimulates the states and the societies to innovations and the development of inclusiveness. Under such conditions the tasks of paramount importance should be as follows: strategic planning and taking account of attendant risks for prediction of short-term and long-term aftereffects of pandemic, development of measures to support students and teachers, organization of teaching staff training with the aim of mastering the peculiarities of on-line functional, searching the ways of effective transition to on-line teaching, bringing to conformity the procedures and criteria of knowledge with a new on-line schedule and pedagogical approaches. This will allow the quality of teaching to be ensured in future and innovative educational technologies to be substantiated. (C) 2021 Published by European Publisher.