Special Integration Aspects of Students Professional Training with the Use of Distance Learning Mode

The research examines the methodological problems of combining distance learning and traditional learning technologies, choosing the most suitable distance learning mode and grounding its organization scheme, taking into account individualization principles while providing electronic distance learning. Under the conditions of the COVID19 pandemic distance learning modes are the only way to provide an educational process. Thus, the use of distance learning modes becomes a fact of life that may displace classical face-to-face education modes from dominant positions in the near future. The purpose of the research is to determine special organizational aspects of distance learning mode for students of economical discipline in the national system of higher education in Russia, to examine the experience of its application; to find ways of involving foreign students with the help of virtual technologies, that can give access to educational courses of the universities all over the world. The basic methods of research used in this work were the following: observation, comparison, induction, deduction, and monographic (descriptive). The basic results of the research are confined to the fact that the authors point out the unprecedented control and prevention measures for the COVID19 pandemic, that resulted in the new education model and total domination of distance learning modes in the short term. As a result of shifting to distance learning modes, there were developed specific premises to create one digital space and to integrate distant platforms into classical education modes, so far mainly for obtaining new knowledge and expanding students' self-learning and self-training functions.