Distance Learning in the Higher Education.

      Аннотация: Nowadays, the emphasis on lifelong learning, learning, self-study, and education is becoming a regular part of everybody’s life. Since the society understands that it is difficult to harmonise work, family, and study duties, many fields of study offer obtaining a higher qualification through a distance form of study, which is carried out through e-learning. E-learning provides education opportunities to various groups of disadvantaged people, who would not be able to attend the classic daily or combined classes, such as women on maternity leaves, single mothers with small children, the health-impaired, people working in shifts, convicts, army personnel, but also people living in regions with insufficient transportation system, etc. There are new opportunities at the level of university studies. Universities are facing the fact that demand exceeds supply.

Ключевые слова: distance education, Electronic System, life-long learning, models, open university