Education in training courses in communication-oriented fields

This article considers the role of independent work in distance learning. Independent work of students is an integral part in modern teaching and learning process. At the moment, independent work in percentage terms for full-time education is up to 50%. The indicator increases significantly to 90% for extra-mural form of study. When determining the content and methods of independent work of students in the educational process, one should take into account the expected level of a certain set of graduates’ competencies, which should be achieved during the period of study, and which should be provided by their skills to build their own trajectory of development in a professional and personal format. In this paper, special attention has been given to the potential of visualization as a traditional and, at the same time, exclusively modern means of methodological support.