METHODOLOGICAL BASIS FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF DISTANCE LEARNING IN THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS OF A GENERAL EDUCATIONAL SCHOOL

Relevance. The digitalization of the life of society, forced by the COVID-19 pandemic, determined a number of new processes and phenomena in the economic and social spheres. In the context of a lockdown, an educational institution had to promptly respond to challenges such as maintaining stability and accessibility of education for all categories of students. Research object: the process of introducing distance learning into the general education system. Subject: methodological foundations affecting the quality of educational results of students of a general education school in the context of the transfer of the educational process to a distance mode. Purpose: to determine the methodological grounds for the introduction of distance learning into the educational process of a general education school. Tasks: to analyze the foreign and domestic experience of transferring the educational process to a remote mode in the context of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic; to conduct a study to identify methodological foundations that affect the quality of educational results of students of a general education school in the context of the transfer of the educational process to a distance mode. Methods: methodological approaches: axiological, competence, system-activity; research methods: theoretical (analysis, generalization, systematization). Results: the main foreign and domestic scientific concepts, theories, and methods of distance (blended) learning are identified, which serve as prerequisites for the digital transformation of the educational process in the general education system. Conclusions: the digitalization of all levels of education is natural, a feature of the digitalization of education is the reciprocity of the transformation of the educational process, adapting to modern conditions, and digital technologies, and the means introduced into the learning process for the most complete and comfortable solution of the assigned pedagogical tasks. Recommendations: to continue research to study the essence of the phenomenon of digital transformation, the types and structure of the processes of its implementation in the general education system, which currently remain insufficiently studied.