Keyword: «andragogy»

The article gives the analysis of the European Union educational policy as a whole and that of separate countries. The problem of adult teaching in higher stage of education has become the priority in Europe. The author considers the reforms under the Bologna agreements, which are intended to ensure the possibility for everyone to return to one or the other form or level of education after several years of professional activity and to remove all obstacles from getting of any required educational services.

One of the priorities of Russian education that implements info communication and digital technologies is the widespread use of distance education, which is equated with traditional forms of education. The relevance of the work increases sharply due to the fact that in the conditions of the spread of coronavirus and the increase in the real risk of infection with it, almost all educational institutions are switching to distance learning. The key figure in solving this problem is the teacher, whose level of training largely determines the effectiveness of the entire distance learning process. The purpose of the research is to improve the quality of training of University teachers to work in the distance learning conditions through the gradual formation of their professionally significant qualities. Both theoretical (identification of contradictions of the problem under consideration, analysis, synthesis, comparison, etc.) and empirical (observation, survey, testing, monitoring, etc.) research methods were used in the study. The main results of the study were: a comprehensive analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature on the designated topics; based on previously developed technology for distance learning, we defined the stages of teachers’ training technology and gave the characteristics of the information stage; tools, methods and techniques used at this learning stage were presented, the activities of the course leader and teachers were shown. Theoretical significance of the work consists in: defining the term «technology», requirements for the development of distance learning technologies, designing the information stage of the technology for training distance learning teachers. The practical significance of the work is due to the opportunity to use the research findings in the process of training / retraining teachers for distance learning. The results obtained in the course of the research can be used to improve the professional readiness of University teachers to work in the system of distance learning in educational institutions of various types.