The efficiency of blended learning in training future technical specialists in pandemic conditions

The extreme conditions that arose during the period of self-isolation led to a number of problems during the period of adaptation to the distance learning format. Important, on the part of the teaching staff in extreme conditions, is the ability and willingness to constructively design the educational process of future specialists and develop a strategy for possible changes. Subject of the article: the formation of patterns of behavior of students in a pandemic. Object of the article: a system of blended learning in the preparation of future technical specialists in a pandemic. The purpose of the work: to identify the positive and negative aspects of distance, full-time and blended learning, as well as the possibility of combining them in the educational process to improve the effectiveness of learning. Methodology of work: in the course of the study, such empirical methods as a sociological survey and the method of statistical data processing were used. The results of the work indicate that during the pandemic, students learned to acquire new ways of responding to the challenge of changing forms of education, interaction with the outside world, which contributed to the formation of new patterns in the proposed conditions. The scope of the results is practical pedagogical activity in a pandemic. Conclusion: an assessment of students' preferences for choosing one or another form of education indicates that the future belongs to blended learning, which includes both distance learning and classroom forms.