Scientific journal
Научное обозрение. Педагогические науки
ISSN 2500-3402
ПИ №ФС77-57475

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STATE-OF-THE-ART AND PROSPECT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF VIRTUAL EDUCATION

Stepantseva O.А. 1
1 Saint-Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences
The author substantiates the relevance of virtual technology application for educational process. In this context, it has been defined a concept of “virtual education” and its distinction in kind from “distance education”, disclosed its features and functionality, analyzed a logical structure of educational content, described the current options of the state-of-the-practice for virtual educational methods, offered possible ways for further methods improvement. The article comes from its own research conducted at facilities of Saint-Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences. The statistical universe composes students from first-year to graduand. The first stage of research had been conducted from April to May, 2007. It is then regularly investigated to trace dynamic of changes of the information and communication technologies in educational process. The second, third and fourth stages carried out December, 2008 – January, 2009, January, 2010 and December, 2012 – January, 2013. Additionally, the basis for the research was established with a content analysis of virtual educational resources (E-libraries, university sites, E-books and etc.) Since a volume of the data collection is beyond of the article volume, the author presents the results in a form of thesis and conclusion.