Abstract
The research aims to identify the positive and negative experience of application distance learning for Economics students in Russia. Unlike most papers studying the motivation of applicants to choose economic distance education, the paper discusses the factors of its development in Russia, which differs both from those in the US and Europe, and from other specialties in Russia. The explanatory material is the statistics of admissions ratesand the analysis of universities’ location.
Highlights
Distance training is widely used in North and Latin America and Europe, but it is rather new to Russian higher education system, whichis experiencing the most intensive period of e-education development, there are “very few teaching methods and materials capable of creating a holistic picture of the subject and controlling the assimilation of the curriculum” (Martyanova, 2012), and lack of teachers working in this format
Unlike most papers studying the motivation of applicants to choose economic distance education, the paper discusses the factors of its development in Russia, which differs both from those in the US and Europe, and from other specialties in Russia
A glance at the presentation of universities concentration on the map shows that Russian HEIs concentrate in scientific, technical and educational centers of state’s large territory (All Russian HEIs, 2018)
Summary
Distance training is widely used in North and Latin America and Europe, but it is rather new to Russian higher education system, whichis experiencing the most intensive period of e-education development, there are “very few teaching methods and materials capable of creating a holistic picture of the subject and controlling the assimilation of the curriculum” (Martyanova, 2012), and lack of teachers working in this format This is still true in 2018, according to the present research. According to “Higher School of Economics” National Research University (HSE, 2017a), Russian e-learning market has already become the fastest growing in the world due to start-ups and private educational portals. It remains unknown whether it will have the same features that it has in the West. Over almost three past decades after the USSR collapse, there has been a large increase in the number of HEIs that offer Economics programs, as well as in the number of students enrolling in these courses (HSE, 2017c)
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