Distance learning is the interaction of a teacher and students with each other at a distance, reflecting all the components inherent in the educational process (goals, content, methods, organizational forms, teaching aids) and implemented by specific means of Internet technologies or other means that provide interactivity.

Technologies

Modern distance learning is based on the use of the following basic elements:

information transmission media (mail, distance learning systems, web conferences, chats, forums, information communication networks),

methods dependent on the technical environment of information exchange.

In the 21st century, interactive interaction with students through information communication networks is promising, from which the environment of Internet users stands out en masse. In 2007, the distance learning center began to actively introduce the “Prometheus” distance learning system into the educational process of the Almaty Academy of Economics and Statistics, which involves the widespread use of Internet technologies.

Advantages

Distance learning allows you to:

reduce costs during the learning process (there is no need for transportation costs, time costs, rental of residential premises on the part of students, trips to the place of study for both students and teachers, etc.);

reduce training time (training, travel time);

the participant can independently plan the time, place and duration of classes;

conduct training for a large number of people;

improve the quality of education through the use of modern tools, large electronic libraries, etc.

create a unified educational environment.

Application

Distance educational technologies using the Internet are used both for mastering individual advanced training courses for users and for obtaining higher education. The following main forms of distance learning can be distinguished: online and offline. Online learning has a number of significant advantages:

Flexibility - students can receive education at a time and place that suits them;

Long-range action - students are not limited by distance and can study regardless of their place of residence;

Cost-effective – the costs of long trips to the place of study are significantly reduced.

Forms

Chat classes are training sessions conducted using chat technologies. Chat classes are conducted synchronously, that is, all participants have simultaneous access to the chat, conducted using the Prometheus LMS.

Web classes - remote lessons, conferences, seminars, laboratory work, workshops and other forms of training sessions conducted using Adobe Connect, Prometheus LMS and other Internet capabilities.

For web classes, the Prometheus LMS educational web forums, chats, educational materials, test tasks, monitoring student progress are used - a form of user work on a specific topic, left by the organizers, teachers of the Prometheus LMS system on one of the sites http://study.aesa.kz. with the appropriate software installed on it.