Distance Education on the Basis of Innovative Technologies. Problems of the Primary School Teacher Training in Ukraine

Abstract

In the article, the authors analyze international experience of scientists, the Ukrainian realities and prospects for selection of expedient innovation tools. The purpose of such selection is to optimize distance education in the primary school teacher training in Ukraine on the basis of innovative technologies. The relevance of the topic is determined by a number of contradictions between the need for innovations in distance education and objective obstacles on the way to this. The purpose of the article is formulation of selection criteria, selection of the most urgent and most relevant accessible technologies and the theoretical substantiation of their application (on the example of teaching and learning the discipline “Mathematics”). The methodology involved includes the following methods: searching, sampling (according to relevance, effectiveness, regional features) and theoretical. Methods of modeling, generalization and forecasting were applied partly.