In the spring and summer of 2016, I thought about the fact that the existing 2 higher educations do not give me the opportunity to receive either moral or material satisfaction from work, because. are not particularly valued (I am a philologist-translator and a specialist in foreign literature). So I need to learn more. Since I am a 100% humanist, such specialties as a C ++ programmer, CSS and other Cs, a chemist, are closed to me, but a good HR specialist has not bothered anyone yet.

After the choice regarding the specialty was made, the agony of the search began good university offering the program distance education. Based on reviews, she settled on the Russian State Humanitarian University (RGGU). Fortunately, it has a long history - it has existed since 1908! - the teachers are venerable, the reputation is good. And, importantly, the price is reasonable.

But problems began almost immediately. Firstly, distance education at the RSUH does not imply a division into 1st higher and 2nd higher education, it is a priori considered 1st. And you have to surrender entry exams, if not USE results. But I don’t have them, because. I graduated from school in 2001, when there were no such terrible abbreviations. And one more thing: since this is the 1st VO, the study of a bunch of general subjects is guaranteed to you. It’s good that several subjects were recredited to me from previous diplomas.

Well, okay, passing the exams is a simple matter, however, the core subject was MATHEMATICS! But I passed it, having studied the entire school course in algebra and geometry (at the age of 32).

Further - more interesting. After the publication of the enrollment order, the student must pay for the 1st semester of study by providing a scanned copy of the payment document by e-mail. Only after that will access to the personal account on the DO portal and to the library be provided. I sent the payment on September 9th. Access to Personal Area after numerous calls was granted on October 10, a month later. I had to fight for the library for another 2 weeks, because. The password sent did not pass.

On November 2, I suddenly received a message that I had a payment arrears. To say that my eyes have become 5 rubles each is to say nothing. On September 9, I sent a confirmation of the transfer! Okay, a few more letters and calls, and the information appeared in the system that I paid for 1 semester.

Let's go to the private office.

This is how the section of disciplines that need to be mastered in the current semester looks like. We click on the discipline, a list of topics for study opens. There are links to the list. teaching aids, some can be downloaded directly from here. Everything seems to be great. BUT! I logged into my personal account on October 12 to start preparing. Half of the items were inactive: i.e. you go inside the course, and there is EMPTY. And on some topics changed within a month. Not cardinally, but still strange that certification has begun, and topics are being changed.

Yes, I must say that certification goes in 2 stages: intermediate and final. This is a test, for a certain number of questions (from 30 to 50) an hour is given. Thus, without passing the intermediate testing, you will not go to the final one. Deadlines for each type of certification are set. For some subjects, you need to perform tests, which are loaded here, in your personal account.

The next oddity after the problems with the courses is communication with teachers.

It is only possible through the forum.

i.e. you create new topic in each course, you either join an existing one, ask questions, and in theory, fellow students and the teacher answer here. Fellow students answer yes, but the teacher no. There is another option to write him a message, but if there is no teacher connected to this course in the general list, then there is no one to send a message to. And, even if you find it, write a question, then getting an answer is still not guaranteed. Alternatively, call your teacher. But this is if you find his phone number on the Internet.

And now, hurray, comrades! You passed the session, rested, paid for the next semester on time (until February 28), sent a confirmation to the accounting department, go to your personal account on the tab " Educational plans"and you see that the next certification is from March 15.

Great, today, February 21, February 20, payment was made, which means that the courses of the 2nd semester are already available, it's time to study.

An no. First you come across a message that you have a debt. How again??????? Again letters to the accounting department, to the curator of the course with the questions "How?", "Why?". And the answer:

"The portal is being reloaded. Therefore, something disappears, and something suddenly appears. All this is a consequence of the reorganization of the University, which began last year. We are all very concerned about this and can only hope that the portal will work in full . "

Excuse me, but what am I doing here? And the rest of the distance learning students?

Okay, we're waiting.

A week passes, the situation is the same. Another week goes by, no change.

On March 7, I started calling the curator. No answer. On March 10, the call continues. The curator of other disciplines answers that yes, the problem exists, they are trying to solve it, but so far they have not succeeded. I ask when to call back. Please contact the manager. After 3.5 hours of continuous calls, the phone is finally picked up. I get a response that this problem is only related to translation freshmen , they are trying to solve it and, perhaps, will solve it this week.

And so, today, March 15, I look and see that things are still there. The interim review has already started. And it ends April 17th. Will I, a working person, be able to meet the deadlines? In the session of the 1st semester, access to the topics of one of the subjects was opened a week before the end of the final certification......

And be sure to tell about the library.

She might be good. But you will not find most of the textbooks and teaching aids recommended by teachers in the list of educational and methodological literature in the library to which access is provided. You will not find these manuals and textbooks anywhere in the public domain. Only in the offline library. Since these are the works of teachers of the Russian State Humanitarian University, they were published at the Russian State Humanitarian University, and they are in the physical library of the Russian State Humanitarian University. Alas.....

In general, I think with horror about what I will do when narrow-profile subjects go, the time will come for writing term papers and theses.

So, friends, the university may be prestigious, but here is Distance Education, its technical support, to hell with it. Look for other options if you need to get 2nd higher education: Evening courses, 3/6 month courses if available in your city. Well, or another university.

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To be honest, I expected more. Okay, I didn’t count on any attention, but I expected to receive at least some training. In fact, the process can be described as paid self-education. In which the participation of the university is reduced to an exclusively controlling function.

I already have full-time and part-time experience. Full-time education, in theory, should be the most productive in terms of the amount of knowledge and the quality of education. "Must be" because full-time education falls on the age at which people, as a rule, still do not fully realize the values ​​of education and study for the sake of grades, not knowledge. And besides, they do not have the opportunity to apply this knowledge in practice. As a result, very little is deposited in the head. The final quality of the cognitive baggage depends mainly on the teachers and their ability to captivate the subject. Which, to be honest, is rare.

Correspondence education is considered worse. Because what can be learned in two months of sessions a year? And between sessions, no one learns the same. It's like that. At least me and my classmates had. There was no study between sessions. We worked. So at least part of the knowledge has already been used. And another part was understood better, because adjacent areas. Yes, and the motivation is higher - it is more clear why to study, what is important, what can be neglected. Not always this understanding corresponded to the truth, though. Especially in the "can be neglected" part. But this has already been shown by experience in the future. But in general, I would not say that the “full-time mode” of education left more knowledge in my head. The month before the session and the month of the correspondence session were very intensive in terms of learning, despite the abuse of alcohol and adventure. This was partly facilitated by the “group mind” - for almost the entire duration of the training, we gathered in the same group of 5 people (plus a similar stable group of girls) and not a single subject could resist joint efforts - each of us was stronger in some area and helped others.

I thought about correspondence as a second higher, but, firstly, modern technologies, the Internet, the rich experience of webinars, video courses and online learning led to the fact that distance is enough. Secondly, the employer may take two months of absence from work with skepticism. Thirdly, the price of the issue - remote is much cheaper. I chose the Russian State Humanitarian University, because the university itself is prestigious, serious, and besides, the psychology department is represented by the Vygotsky Institute, for which I have irresistible respect after reading a couple of his works.

Here it is also worth answering the question that you often hear - why do I need a second higher education? The fact is that in the course of my passion for personal growth in matters of increasing personal productivity, developing the necessary skills and habits, in a manner characteristic of techies, I began to be interested not only in the question “how should I do it?” but also “how does it work?”. What is laziness, how does memory work, where does motivation come from, etc. Books and articles in the genre of popular science and applied psychology, as well as business literature, reveal these issues very superficially and not always correctly. He became interested in academic psychology and faced the problem that, as a science, psychology is poorly structured, standardized, and its status as a science is still in question. It is understandable, because here the subject of science (researcher) is its own object, which imposes certain difficulties, but it is difficult to understand even where to start. And it's not at all clear where to go. A bunch of schools, directions and branches, views and approaches, theories and methodologies that contradict and complement each other at the same time. The corpuscular-wave theory of light is resting. In general, I expected from the university, first of all, the structure and sequence of studying the subject.

The second moment is the transition to the status of a father (the birth of one son, then the second). Reading books on parenting plus an engineering approach - an interest in “how it works”, plus an awareness of the need to understand new trends in the field of education, in general, a bonus to the previous argument. With a slight bias in pedagogy.

And the third one is the sudden need to teach and share knowledge and experience. Information Technology, worldly wisdom and, in the future, aikido. Which again requires understanding the motives of people's behavior.

In short, when I came across a variant of the psychological and pedagogical direction of the second higher education, I did not even doubt it.

And that means distance learning. I assume that this format is considered quite ineffective. And here I am inclined to agree now. For you can get to a diploma without studying anything at all. Because all tests are taken in the form of tests (exams) and tests (tests). Tests can be googled right in the course of passing, and test papers can be ordered, since graduate students of the university itself, having access to the contact details of “remote students”, send appropriate proposals to the mail.

That's just the motivation for knowledge is now the highest. And the chances of getting them, as it turned out, are the lowest.

From the introductory course:

« Distance learning is training using Internet technologies, video conferencing technologies, webinars and other modern means of interactive communication.”

Sounds interesting. Especially after using such resources as coursera or universarium. Adapted video lectures, video conferences with teachers, group discussions and any other interactive are expected. Well, I admit, these are too idealistic fantasies, but I was waiting for at least links to manuals and video recordings of lectures. It just turned out that the main tool that can be attributed to Internet technologies, in this type of education, at the moment is the ability to upload a docx file from control work in the web form of the site. And take a test instead of an exam.

I remember a certain anticipation when I finally got access to the courses and began to explore the available resources, materials and tools. It turned out that all that is available to me for each course is a list of topics and a list of references. Moreover, for some subjects, even these lists are formed "for fuck off." For example, a couple of positions in the main literature section and half a dozen in the additional one. And none of listed sources does not contain information on the topic of the selected test.

"Students studying in absentia using remote educational technologies, it must be remembered that this type of training requires self-organization and discipline. You yourself choose the pace of learning, choose the forms of communication with teachers and, of course, success in learning here primarily depends on you.»

The last statement is 100% true. Indeed, the success of training depends only on you. Because there is no way to even identify the students of your group - all student profiles are closed by default, it is possible to open them for your group, but I did not find a single open one. All that is there for interaction is a common forum that is not divided into categories and sections. 90% of it consists of topics with capacious titles "To Methodists", "Help" and "Give access to courses to retake" (begs the question why there is no mechanism for sending such requests directly to the Methodists). You can try to create a topic for gathering classmates, but, as I understand it, not all students go to the forum, because 90% of it consists of ... well, in general, there is nothing to read there. And the topic very quickly flies into the pipe due to the flow of the same type of requests for access to courses.

As for communication with teachers. Theoretically it is possible. About " choose forms of communication with teachers» - you can choose whether to write a letter (if specified email address profile) or write an internal message. And hope that “244 days” in the “last entry” column means that there was simply no need, and you will receive an answer in a timely manner.

How did the first session go? .

« You choose the pace of learning' is certainly overly optimistic. If you work and cannot devote all day to studying, then the certification period comes quickly and inevitably, and flies by even faster.

• In mid-October, I got access to the courses.
• From November 10 to December 20 (40 days) - intermediate certification. 3 tests, 4 controls. That is less than a month to prepare.
• From January 10 to February 10 (30 days) - final certification. 3 tests, 7 controls.

The control is such a mini-abstract on 12-18 pages (including the title, content and list of references).

Even if the list of literature on the subject does not exceed 5 positions, reading and comprehending 5 books in a few days (on one subject. Subjects 10. Total - 50 books) is completely unrealistic. For a number of subjects of literature, much more is indicated. The situation is complicated by the fact that, sometimes, nothing from the list can be found even for money (in stores and services such as google play books). Available e-library university, but there is also far from everything (yes, almost nothing, in fact), and nothing can be downloaded from what is there. And reading online is far from always acceptable (and using the service from mobile devices is extremely inconvenient).

I fully felt the value of the lectures. That's just from the 10 subjects of the first session, the recordings of lectures were two. On the history of world civilizations and general psychology. There are only three lectures on history - more like writing tests.

At best, I managed to read one (chosen by eye from the list or simply found) book on a particular subject. History of ancient civilizations (three volumes that covered the period BC very superficially), didactics, basics of general psychology and anatomy. In the rest, I analyzed only the topic that I chose for the test.

At the same time, in the course of preparing for the final certification, he almost scored for work, since in January it was calm there. That is, it did not cool down.

Control is carried out with the inevitability and irreversibility of the mechanism. There is little opportunity to agree and influence the teacher - most of the control tests are checked after the deadline has passed, when nothing can be changed or corrected. Out of all 11 papers, I received only 3 grades almost immediately after the submission. From two dedicated teachers. In most cases, there are not even any comments because of which the rating is lowered. In the case of testing, the results are generally analyzed by a soulless machine. Although there is an opportunity to retake them. 2 or 3 tries. But with a mandatory gap between them, so you can not delay the first.

Tails, it seems, are gone. At least I passed everything, although the results have not yet been received in all disciplines and the record book is empty. They promise to finish by the end of February. March 10 is a new session.

The final feeling is that studying remotely is even harder than in absentia. If you study. If you do not study (order work), then it is easier. But then why?

I believe that the format of distance education is simply not yet sufficiently developed, and its evolution and debugging is underway. They say it was even worse in recent years. Scary to imagine.