Distance education: opportunities and limitations
The article discusses the development of distance education, analyzes sources in the field of legislation of the Russian Federation. The advantages of distance education, as well as disadvantages, difficulties of implementation and prospects for its further development are identified. The issues of the development of distance education at the university considered in the article do not concern software, content development, financial costs, management and support of the learning process, reporting and statistics, etc. More attention is paid to the issues of legislation, the history of the introduction of distance education, as well as the role of a teacher in this process.