THE ROLE AND PLACE OF DISTANCE LEARNING IN E-LEARNING

The article discusses the role and place of distance education in electronic learning. The implementation of such important components as e-learning and e-education in the education system is an important tool to achieve the objectives of global education and requires specific knowledge. Teaching staff of educational institutions must learn new teaching tools such as cloud, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, mobile technology, Internet technology, designing distance learning courses, etc., or increase the level of this category. We consider the relevance and benefits of the use of distance education in electronic learning, and the need of its implementation at all levels of the educational process and basic steps for it. Distance learning courses have several types that differ in the degree of farness, individualization and its efficiency: ? "educational institution → Internet" (includes full-time training using Internet resources, videlicet to find things on the Internet and communicate with other network users); ? "educational institution → Internet → educational institution" (used in the full-time study, but has occasional problem with the mandatory use of the Internet); ? "the one who learns → Internet → the one who teaches" (distance learning complements the full-time education, it has an episodic format as consultations in a case of need); ? "the one who learns → Internet → Center" (full-time complement of training and has additional opportunities to strengthen the disclosure of a special creativity); ? "the one who learns → Internet" (it can serve as an additional training to full-time education, but can also be transformed into an independent "institution" that takes into account individual needs and capabilities of the individual and a flexible adjustment under her needs and interests using the educational resources on the Internet ). There has been proved the necessity of mastering of the teaching staff of educational institutions the basic terms of e-learning and understanding their meaning, an awareness of the role and need for e-learning in the educational institutions of the country. It is proved that the introduction of various forms of distance education in schools will increase the level of informative competence of the educational institutions stuff, facilitate the acceptance and the assimilation of educational material, will provide additional opportunities those who wish to obtain a special or additional education.