Research Information System
55th International Scientific Conference on Economic and Social Development, no.3/4, pp.101-105, 2020 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
The widespread use of distance education in accordance with the requirements of modern times
allows more people to be involved in education. Thanks to distance education, people living in
remote villages, people with disabilities, or those who for some reason cannot continue their
education, also get a comfortable education. Distance education is widely used in many higher
education institutions of the world. For the last 10 years distance education in Azerbaijan is
developing. Although distance education did not receive much attention in the early years,
demand for this type of education has been growing over the past five years. A number of steps
have been taken in this direction. Since 2010, the Ministry of Education has launched a distance
learning project called “e-Learning Systems”. The main goal of the project is to involve
children with disabilities in distance education, to support their integration in society, to
improve their educational opportunities, to create Internet access by improving their ability to
use computer and electronic resources. Distance education programs are implemented at
UNEC, ADA, West Caspian University and other universities. There are regularly organized
trainings for professors-teachers of distance education with the participation of foreign experts.
In the trainings there are provided information on a specially created platform, the methods
and technologies used in distance education are considered. We can positively assess the
activity of the Distance Learning Center in the Training-Innovation Center of the Institute of
Information Technologies of ANAS, as the most successful step in distance education. The
distance education center conducts computer science classes for doctoral students and
dissertators from different regions of Azerbaijan. The article discusses the steps taken in the
field of distance education, the work done, as well as the experiences of leading world scientific
centers and their application in educational institutions of Azerbaijan.