Prospects For The Use Of Foreign Experience Of Distance Learning

The modern scientific, technical and social progress requires constant renewal and even creating a qualitatively new system of higher professional education. New forms of learning can be implemented through the provision of distance educational services through the modern technologies and the Internet. This is the way to raise the educational level of the population; to raise professional qualifications and to retrain specialists in various fields of knowledge. The paper presents the detailed analysis of researchers' reviews and special organizations' reports committed during 2000 - 2012 published in the United States, Europe and Asia. Research has shown that the experience of foreign distance education has a great application future in terms of the quality of modern vocational education in Russia development and improvement. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.