Educational Process and Distant Teaching: Modern Approaches

The article given is dedicated to consideration of distant teaching in modern education, its comparison with intramural form of study. Significance of the research given is stipulated by requirements for innovative forms of teaching and learning resulted from contemporary social transformations. The aim of the paper is to reveal some trends of distant education at university, its advantages and disadvantages. Methods used to study the subject of the research were as follows: analysis of linguistic and methodological literature, analysis and synthesis of the data obtained, generalization and comparison of the data obtained. The results of the study are derived from evaluation of technologies used in the distance teaching process. Innovative methods of distant teaching allow to involve specialists from various educational institutions, expand information space accessible to students, and integrate Russian universities into the worldwide education system. The role of independent work to achieve high-standard study of a foreign language in the distance is substantiated. The study can be useful for researchers in the field of education, teachers of foreign languages, students and others.