Internet as a Channel of Distance Education in the Context of Secondary Socialization

摘要

The authors consider secondary socialization as a process of gradual change of ideas about the surrounding reality in the individual's mind under the influence of some social institutions. As the state of the modern world could be characterized with the terms of information age or information society the information is both the main resource and the main value nowadays, this was predicted by the proponents of this phenomenon. In our opinion one of the most significant institution impacting the process of the secondary socialization are the media and Internet in particular. Today the Internet is the main channel for the transfer of socialized content within the framework of formalized secondary socialization. One of the form of the influence is distance education. Distance education is aimed to people who have already passed the stage of primary socialization, except for individual cases when distance learning is used in the framework of primary socialization. Within the Internet there is a fairly large number of types of distance learning, which now are an effective educational tool. The Internet is developing as a system so remote education with the help of net resources will be in demand increasingly, gradually replacing the traditional forms of education with technology development.