DISTANCE EDUCATION IN UNIVERSITIES OF MODERN RUSSIA

The article shows that most Russian universities are only at the initial stage of introducing modern distance learning technologies in the educational process, and the main barriers to the development of distance learning technologies in higher education are: the high cost of developing, introducing e-learning, the lack of necessary technical support, a small number of qualified teachers for the introduction of distance learning, the lack of an exact number of universities for e-learning courses. At the same time, an analysis of the foreign experience in the application of these technologies testifies to their demand at universities in the developed countries of the world, which is determined by the comparable quality of foreign distance learning and traditional full-time education.