Problems Of Organizing Distance Learning: Sociological Analysis

The introduction of the forced full distance learning in the spring of this year has highlighted many urgent problems that have ripened in the organization of the modern information and communication space. The study of this situation on a regional scale is based on the development of a questionnaire for students "Distance education: pros and cons". This questionnaire includes 12 questions of a different nature: from students' interest in distance learning, satisfaction with the first distance learning experience to attitudes to the opportunity to practice in future full or partial distance learning. The survey covered 150 respondents. The answers of the students were predictable, but the value of the survey is that in the process of analyzing the data obtained, the authors found a largely mature assessment by students of the first experience of distance learning. The obtained material allowed reveals two crucial factors that served as the reasons for the negative experience for more than half of the students. These are economical and psychological factors. In the first place, we put forward the economic factor, because technical limitations in the means and accessibility of communication, served as a cause of psychological stress, creating an unfavourable emotional background around the students. The psychological factor was determined by both the suddenness of the situation and the demand for traditional live communication with teachers and classmates.