Implementation of the program of additional professional discipline in higher school in distance format

the article is devoted to the problem of implementing an additional professional discipline for students studying in the technical direction of training, in the context of an urgent transfer of higher education to the online format. As a research task, it is designated to clarify the problems and difficulties associated with the transition to a distance learning mode to assess the possibilities for the existence and development of additional professional discipline. As the main research methods, we used a survey and questioning of students who traditionally studied in the first half of the discipline being studied, online - in the second part of the discipline. The features of the transfer of training in an additional professional discipline to the online format, changes in the teaching methodology with an indication of the teaching aids used are characterized. Based on the analysis of the data of the survey of students and the results of observations of the work of students, the following conclusions were made: the transition to learning in a distance format, despite the emerging mobility of learning, did not contribute to the development of students' self-organization skills and increase their interest in learning; distance learning technology, if considered as a completely non-contact form of education, can be used only as a forced measure. The expediency of modifying the program and methods of additional professional discipline in the context of blended education and the need to develop «digital didactics of vocational education» are emphasized.