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Urgency of the research. The article is devoted to the essential characteristics of distance education as a modern educational technology. Distance education is considered as a mobile individualized technology for acquiring knowledge.

Target setting. The article has the aim to update the worldview principles of the modern philosophy of education, identify the main shortcomings and risks of the transition to total distance education.

Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. Problems of introduction of distance learning technologies in foreign countries, in particular prospects of development of distance education, were investigated by J. Anderson, V. Wheeler, T. Edward, R. Kling, A. Trindade. In domestic works of scientists the problems of distance education are devoted to the works of L.Vasilieva, V. Voronkova, I. Kuzmina, A. Kuzminsky, N. Savitskaya, N. Ushakova. However, in these works, the authors pay little attention to the systemic risks and shortcomings of distance education.

The research objective. The purpose of this scientific article is to analyze the possibilities of distance learning, prospects and risks of implementing distance education.

The statement of basic material. The article considers some psychological, pedagogical and technical aspects of the introduction of distance learning. It is emphasized that the main purpose of creating a system of distance education is to ensure free access to educational resources through the use of modern information technologies and social networks and to create conditions for citizens to exercise their rights to education. The main disadvantages of distance education are depersonalization, lack of proper motivation of participants in the educational process, loss of educational and socialization functions of education, hyperbolization of independent work, low level of control over the educational process.

Conclusions. It is established that in the Ukrainian educational realities distance learning turned out to be an incapable technology of providing quality education. Most educational institutions are not prepared for the introduction of distance learning based on the use of electronic format: there are technical problems in providing access to remote resources; incompetence of teachers in the organization of distance education; low level of motivation of participants in the educational process.

Key words: distance education, distance learning, megatrend, neo-barbarism, knowledge society.

 

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