Distance Learning in Training of PE Specialists

Activization of creative potential of a personality against the increasing democratization of social interaction is the brightest trend of development of the XXI century society conditioning the transformation of almost all spheres of life activity and, first and foremost, of the sphere of education. The traditional approaches to education at all its levels based on the priority of processes of transmitting and adopting the academic information emphatically fail to respond to the demands of the rapidly developing society thus contradicting the real needs of main consumers of the educational services. Formation of new systems in education is necessary – of ones focused on entering the world educational space. The process is accompanied by essential change in pedagogical theory and practice of education and academic process. The paper considers the use of information technologies in organization of the academic process in the system of higher education. In particular, theoretical and experimental grounds of the use of distance learning method in the area of PE.