Reducing the Risk of Distance Course Participants Demotivation as a Managerial Task

The modern world progressive trend is the integration of information and communication technologies in educational process and the creation of a unified educational space. The academic community understands that the long-term planning is requires the process of distance learning expanding. It avoids many disadvantages of traditional learning. The relevance of the study: with the growth of online learning in higher education comes a problem of non-completion where students withdraw from a class before the ending date. This position is indicated both in foreign and in domestic studies. We assume that the most capacious component contributing to the fact of not completing the distance learning course is to motivate students to follow it conditions and requirements. Object of research – the practice of distance learning courses in higher education. Subject of research – the reasons for the decline of distance course participants motivation. The goal is to create recommendations for developers of distance courses, in which the risk of students demotivation will be minimized. In research were used such methods like benchmarking, questionnaire, interview with experts. Results allowed making recommendations, which include the following positions: the content and structure of the course, explanatory note, form providing the basic course material, additional literature in the course, homework, feedback form, form of control in the distance course.