Globalization of Education: Online Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language in a Pandemic Condition

Globalization of Education: Online Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language in a Pandemic Condition

Savilova Svetlana L., Kropotkina Anna A., Kokhanovskaya Yevgenia V.

Research background: In connection with the pandemic situation in the world, higher education had to find a solution to fulfill its obligations and end the academic year. The transition to a digital educational format has allowed universities to fulfill their obligations to provide educational services in full. The article dwells on the main concepts, models and characteristic features of modern distance learning. The relevance of distance learning technologies is substantiated, with the emphasis on the specific organization of the educational process, due to those technologies. Purpose of the article: The aim of the authors was to investigate into the expansion of online learning functions as a tool of the educational process, as well as into the ways to preserve and increase student motivation to study in the situation of distance education. Methods: Methods are proposed for creating a virtual learning environment based on: resorting to the material from various Internet sources; giving online lectures and consultations; working out tests; using an integration model, a convertible interactive database and a complex approach with the application of multiple resources for passing on and consolidating knowledge, as well as for rating students’ academic performance. Findings & Value added: Distance learning is a modern reality, which, as an important part and complement to the traditional form of the learning process of a modern student, expands the possibilities of classical university education.

2021

covid-19, distance learning, motivation, foreign language

10.1051/shsconf/20219201044

Epidemiology and Health

Korean Society of Epidemiology

Social Sciences