PROBLEMS OF DISTANCE LEARNING OF ADULTS IN THE RESEARCHES OF COMPARATIVE PEDAGOGICS

The article focuses primarily on the problem of distance learning of adults in foreign pedagogical practice. The author provides insight into some peculiarities of development of distance education in post-soviet, American countries, Great Britain with the help of in-depth analysis of scientific investigations of Comparative Pedagogics. Special attention is paid to the functioning of the system of distance learning of adults which should be implemented on the basis of methodological and andragogical principals. The principal trends of the usage of advanced ideas of foreign experience for distance learning students in the field of adult education in Ukraine are suggested