Abstract:

The paper investigates some issue of higher education during COVID-19 Pandemic in different countries. The fact, the COVID-19 Pandemic has forced the education to change rapidly and rely heavily on digital space, what makes it unavoidable to elaborate and know good teaching-learning practices, successfully applicable educational methods, and teaching strategies, innovative educational- technology tools. The obligation for students to stay at home and take distance education due to the quarantine has turned virtual learning or e-learning into the most promising tool for safe teaching. Distance education appears to be the answer for the democratization of higher education. The authors point out that online learning has taken center stage in the times of COVID and is being lauded as a feasible alternative for imparting education to students. Current trends in the education of young people in the mode of remote access to educational resources intensify the emergence of changes in the system of professional training in higher education institutions.

Purpose and methods of research:
The aim of the article is to analyze distance higher education in different countries in pandemic in order to improve the quality of education. The key methods of our study are synthesis, analysis, systematization and generalization. We study of Ukrainian and foreign sources to achieve the stated goal.

Results of work and key conclusions:
The authors focus on the fact that impact of COVID19 has brought a growing sense of chaos in the education systems and has severely disrupted academic progress across the globe by forcing education institutions to adopt a rapid re-design of teaching and learning systems. Among the many COVID-inspired challenges that faced education institutions were how to ensure survival, preparedness and growth after the pandemic. However, the same challenges have presented humanity with many opportunities to re-think and re-engineer a new way of doing business, a successful future is mostly held on the level of preparedness amongst education institutions to manage the future crises in the best way possible.

Keywords:

Higher education quality, new challenges in pandemic, distance education, re-design of teaching, level of preparedness.