Didactic Justification of Remote Learning for Master’s Degree Students in Engineering and Technology

Abstract

Russian universities, like all global higher education institutions, experience difficulties because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The arrangement of the study process in a digital form and using remote education technologies turned out to be a serious challenge for teachers, students and university administrations, IT departments, and academic registries. With this increased onlinification, a risk arises that the quality of education may deteriorate. The quality of remote education depends on many factors. One of the most important of those is compliance with the didactic principles of this training format that set a benchmark for the best implementation of the study process. This article deals with the justification of the extension of general didactic principles of traditional education and complementing those with the principles addressing the features of remote education for master’s degree programs.