Foreign students’ distance language training as a perspective form of media education

Abstract

The article is devoted to the issue of distance training foreign students the Russian language.

It has been noted that at the beginning of the 21st century dynamic development of society is connected with deep world transformations, globalization of culture, expansion of multicultural ties, creation of multicultural communities. The latter has found reflection in the computer communication as modern society became informative, “multimedia” (M. Maklyuen) and “network” (M. Kastels) society facing with the informatization of social reality where all spheres of activity are related to information technologies.

The media reality is connected with the production and consumption of a media product. For the time being special attention is concentrated on the appearance of a new form of education – distance training with other traditional forms of education – full- and part-time teaching/learning both for Ukrainian and foreign students. Distance training is based on using modern information, “multimedia technologies” or ‘multimedia” (computer programs, Internet, e-mail, video, on-line conferences, etc.) as a result it can be considered in the context of “media education” the most perspective in the globalized world.

The influence of distance teaching/learning on the modern development of media education has been analyzed in the article. The analysis of distance training at V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University has been carried out in the context of media education. The course of distance learning for foreign students at the initial stage of training the Russian language of a medicobiological profile has been presented.