Lessons from the pandemic: digital transformation of higher education through in remote learning

• Борзова Татьяна Александровна

  T. A. Borzova. Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service. Vladivostok. Russia

The relevance of the chosen research topic is due to radical changes in the very organization of the educational process in all universities in the country in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the past 2019-2020 and the first semester of the 2020-2021
academic years, almost all of the country's leading universities were massively forced to switch to distance learning using one or another electronic educational environment. Such a sharp transition to distance learning revealed quite a lot of pain points of the entire
education system in Russia – the system showed insufficient preparation of participants in the educational process to work in isolation. Pedagogical teams, students, administrations of higher educational institutions of Russia have faced a number of problems,
in the analysis of which it is possible to single out the main reasons for their appearance and develop methodological recommendations for approbation and implementation of new forms of online interaction between teacher and student. The purpose of the study is to analyze the perceptions of the main participants in the educational process of VSUES in the context of an emergency transition to a remote learning format.
Distance learning is becoming one of the main factors in the reform of the educational process in universities. In this regard, it is interesting to analyze the successful experience of adaptation to distance learning using the electronic educational environment Moodle. The strengths and weaknesses of this process are analyzed, it is concluded that in the system of modern higher education the distance learning format can be considered a form that complements and strengthens the educational potential of the education received. A steady trend, the rapid development of online communications, should stimulate universities to introduce innovative forms of interaction into the educational
process, attracting teachers and students to their creative development.

Keywords: COVID-19, interactive technologies, online learning, distance learning, blended
learning, digitalization of the educational process, electronic educational environment,
Moodle, flipped classroom technology, motivation, risks of distance learning.