This study aimed to investigate aspects of face-to-face and distance learning and create a model of distance education for university teachers. For this, theoretical methods of comparison, analysis and symbiosis were used. As a result of the study, differences in the characteristics of various types of education and the possibilities of creating an effective programme of distance education for university teachers were revealed. A model has been developed for organising distance learning in higher education. This model can be applied to any university curricula. As a recommendation, the authors put forward several proposals for changing the grading system: adopt criteria-based assessment and, based on criteria-based assessment, carry out educational monitoring. Keywords: online class, distance education, higher education, pandemic, quarantine.  

The author considers in a comparative aspect, based on the material of postmodern Chinese and Russian literary texts, the representation of the conceptual metaphor of time. The subject of the study is the conceptual metaphor of time, which represents the area of the purpose of the metaphor in the analyzed texts. In addition, a number of areas of the source of metaphor are considered in both Chinese and Russian literary texts of the postmodern era ("Money", "Space", "Object", "River", "Living being", "Container"). The works of Mo Yan and V. O. Pelevin are used for the analysis. The following methods were used in the course of the study: the method of semantic analysis, the comparative method, the method of conceptual analysis. The scientific novelty of this work lies in the fact that for the first time, the similarities and differences of the representation of the conceptual metaphor of time are clarified in it using the material of postmodern fiction in Chinese and Russian. Comparative analysis showed the presence of similarities in the representation of the metaphor under study in the source areas of "Money", "Space", "Object", "River". A distinctive feature of Chinese texts is the representation of metaphor in the "Container" areas, and Russian texts in the "Living Being" areas. The practical value of this work is seen in the fact that these materials can be used in classes on the interpretation of literary texts of the Chinese language in universities. The works of such a plan create a good prospect for the further development of one of the new areas of linguoculturology, namely comparative linguoculturology.

Improving the efficiency of the students' learning process, finding ways to activate their independence, the teacher and the student entering into a productive dialogue are topical issues of modern education. In the conditions of the credit system of teaching students, the main tasks are to unify the amount of knowledge, create conditions for maximum individualization of training, strengthen the role and effectiveness of independent work of students. We believe that students' mastery of self-control and mutual control skills through the use of criteria-based assessment technology is extremely necessary, and the use of criteria allows us to assess the advantages and disadvantages of specific assessment procedures. The article describes the results of a pedagogical study conducted by the authors among students of the 1-2 courses of the Innovative Eurasian University, where the method of  L.V. Baiborodova was chosen as a tool to identify problems of interaction between a teacher and students. In the course of the study, the problems encountered by students in the learning process were analyzed, algorithms for organizing and conducting lectures and practical classes were proposed, allowing the teacher and the student to build an effective interaction process, the results of testing the proposed algorithms were described. The conducted experiment showed that the use of criteria-based assessment allows  to effectively organize pedagogical interaction at the university.

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