Keyword: «teacher presence»

The article deals with the problem of «disembodied» learning in a digital environment, associated with the limitation of physical interaction between students and teachers. The risk of limiting the teacher's ability to involve students in educational activities and respond competently to their emotional demands increases in distance learning process. At the same time, the expectations of parents from teachers using digital technologies are growing, so it is necessary to compensate for the loss of the physical component of the educational process. It is believed that feedback is a potential tool for compensating for problems of «disembodied» learning. The author suggest that using analytics of student learning behavior on a platform for personalized feedback, designing a system of supportive comments, increasing the variety of tools for expressing emotions, as well as teaching students the skills of productive and psychologically safe interaction with feedback, can help establish personal contact between teachers and students in a virtual environment. One of the direction for future research on the issue of compensation for «disembodied» learning is the development of specific recommendations to overcome this problem.