Experience and prospects of implementing a model of mathematics distance learning in North-Caucasus federal university training e-environment

Abstract

The article offers a view at relevant issues of contemporary trends in employing remote learning technologies in academic environment, and transformation of higher education based on the example of the North-Caucasus Federal University, including through the given epidemic situation due to COVID-19 in the Russian Federation. The aim of the study is to analyze the implementation of the educational content developed in 2018 at the North-Caucasus Federal University in order to teach Mathematics via distance learning technologies (DLT), as well as to evaluate the experience of using the said remote model within the new academic paradigm, which is due to the coronavirus pandemic. There is a view at a modified distance learning model involving mixed learning, which has been introduced into the educational process and tested. Its implementation has relied on LMS Moodle (LMS—Learning Management System; Moodle—Modular Object-Oriented Distance Learning Environment). There is also a review of the virtual academic environment, the model of structure, its major principles and specific of its functioning and management, as well as a statistical analysis of the outcomes obtained through introducing the model in education. The article focuses on the main differences between the concepts of “distance learning” and “modified distance learning model”, analyzes their strong and weak points, defines the major benefits of using the latter in the educational environment. The issue in question is view of from the stance of relevance and possible introduction of the said methodology for employing the potential contained in the distance learning technology. There is a special individual view offered at the issue mentioned above, as well as a possible way to resolve that.