Abstract. The approaches to the organization of e-learning in Russian schools are described in this article. The selection of a content of physics course for distance learning on the basis of three factors: a nature of a physics course, peculiarities of distance learning and laws of creation of learning tools is discovered in it. A model of a physics course for distance learning is presented in this article. An example of realization of the model of the physics course for distance learning for students of the 7th grade is given in it. The authors outline prospects of development of the content of general education courses and enlarging the number of students taking distance learning. Distance learning technologies (DLT) and e-learning (EL)were firmly included in the system of Russian education at all levels: from general secondary education to higher vocational one. It was facilitated by the rapid development of computer-based tools and technologies that allowed creating numerous digital educational resources (DER) of various quality and complexity for all school disciplines. DER are supposed to be used to design informational and educational environment (IEE) and use it for distance education of secondary and higher school students. Initially, in the 90-ies, IEE was created to use digital resources in a traditional (full-time) learning process.