Barriers of teacher formation in the implementation of distance learning technologies in modern education

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problems of using distance educational technologies, which are barriers in the educational process. The authors investigate the possibilities of taking into account the technical features of the functioning of distance learning technologies and e-learning in the legislation, as well the conditions and problems of using distance learning technologies and e-learning in the educational process. The relevance of the problem is in improving the training of teachers for professional activities in the context of modern tendency in the informatization of education. Professional training is based on the inclusion of innovative activities in the educational process of a pedagogical university aimed at organizing creative informational interaction of students and teachers in the process of mastering e-learning technologies. In accordance with the new amendments in the Federal Law “About Education” the problem of including distance educational technologies in schools actualizes. In the article the directions of teachers’ professional training for distance learning are defined, the main forms of teachers' professional training in the field of distance educational technologies at the stage of training at a pedagogical university and advanced training are listed as well. But there are barriers that impede the use of distance learning technologies and e-learning in the educational process. The difference between distance educational technologies and electronic education is whether there is a direct cooperation between the teacher and the student or not. If it is carried out and with using information technology, technical means, we are talking about e-learning. If the interaction is mediated - through the Internet, then this is distance learning. An educational organization has the right to use one or both forms of educational program implementation. It is important to prepare future teachers for the use of distance learning technologies in professional activities in the global process of informatization and digitalization of education.