Ecosystem “Distant”: Teacher-student dyad

Abstract

The paper describes the analysis of the teacher’s role as a guarantor of maintaining the quality of the educational process in a higher educational institution in a distance learning format. The author provides a detailed description of the Distant ecosystem, its positive and negative sides. The basis of the research is the collaborative method of teaching. The author considers learning features with the help of distance technologies, both from the view of a student and from the teacher’s one. The study interpreted a lecturer’s personality as a conductor of collaborative and motivating roles. Particular attention the author paid to the collaborative teaching method, which turned out being the most effective in distance learning. This method heads to maximum interaction between the considered dyad of communicants in the educational process. The results of the study allow to determine the major factors affecting the quality of the educational process with the use of distance technologies. Also, the research defined the key third-party elements to either hinder to achieve the maximum quality of education during distance learning.