Experience in developing an additional educational program for kindergarten teachers implemented on the Moodle platform

The problem of the research and justification of its relevance. By the middle of the XXI century, distance education will occupy up to 50-70% of the total share of all educational relations (UNESCO data), which will require both teachers working at all levels of the education and students to be ready immerse in the distance learning format. This format has both its advantages and weaknesses, so online learning in modern educational conditions actively complement the face-to-face communication of participants in educational interaction. Distance learning is of the particular relevance in the field of the organizing additional professional education, since the addressee of such training, as a rule, is a specialist who is in conditions that do not imply even the short-term cessation of professional activity and that provide an optimal, organizationally and methodologically well-designed training program. Purpose of the study. The purpose of the study is to substantiate the possibility of developing and implementing an additional professional education program for kindergarten teachers on the Moodle platform. Methodology. The author describes the advantages and barriers of using the educational resources of the Moodle system, analyzes the experience, problems and prospects of the interaction between developers and distance learning recipients, taking into account the specifics of their professional activities. In the study, systemic, modular principles, ideas of andragogy and the concept of pedagogical design (pedagogical design) declared as priority approaches to the development of an e-learning course, the provisions of which confirmed by using a set of methods: theoretical analysis and generalization of scientific sources on the problem of the research, the pedagogical modeling. Results. As a result of the study, mechanisms for the development and implementation of distance learning courses for preschool education specialists on the Moodle platform were analyzed: Scientifically, from the standpoint of the pedagogical design ideas - taking into account the potential and diversity of simple and complex resources, elements of this platform (presentation, webinar, forum, test and etc.), of the distribution of educational material into blocks, as well as the provisions of the concept of the adult education, the structure substantiated and the content modules of the program «Modern approaches to the organization of educational activities of young children» developed. These are lecture materials, including regulatory and legal aspects of the activity, key areas of professional development; practical materials that provide for a discussion of the problems in the field of preschool education, a demonstration of one's experience, and the fulfillment of the final creative task. The content of the program presented on the website of distance education of the Pskov Regional Institute for Advanced Training of Educational Workers (PRIATEW); the practice-oriented material presented in the article tested during the implementation of an additional professional training program for teachers of the preschool educational organizations based on PRIATEW. As a result, recommendations for the development of e-learning courses, containing promising directions for the effective implementation of distance learning technologies in the practice of professional development courses for preschool education specialists and involving mass training of educators on a regional scale.