Pedagogical Interaction Under the Conditions of Distance Learning

Distance education as a product of the digitization of modern society is substantially different from conventional education, but the two forms of learning have been used in parallel until recently, with the latter one considered the priority. The COVID-19 pandemic led to the implementation of restrictive measures of social distancing, which made distance education the sole viable alternative that allows the process of learning to continue uninterrupted. These conditions revealed a number of specific characteristics of subject-object interaction in the synchronous and asynchronous online learning environment, which are the focus of the this study and analysis. The results of the conducted scientific investigation definitively demonstrate the students’ need and desire to develop some of the necessary professional competences in direct interaction with their instructors in a setting that is suitable and specially equipped for the purposes of the education process and simulates the real conditions of their future work environment.