ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT OF QUALITY IN VIRTUAL EDUCATION IN SYNCHRONOUS AND ASYNCHRONOUS MODALITIES.
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The concept of "quality", due to its variability and multifunctionality, is used in many fields of activity. The term came to the forefront of higher education in the 1980s. Twentieth century, but disputes over how to define it continue to this day. Considering the increase in virtual internships in university programs and the absence of a unified system for quality assurance and evaluation in the synchronous format, the above problems are revealed even more clearly. In order to equate the semantic content of the concept of "quality" in the virtual environment, the article compares the theoretical and practical levels of its operation in the faculties of Law, Political and Social Sciences, Administrative, Accounting and Economic Sciences, and Education of the Popular University of Cesar. The basis of the study is the work dedicated to the generalization of traditional approaches to rethinking the concept of quality in higher education and the tools to work with it in the synchronous and asynchronous environment. There is a stream of dissimilar definitions of quality that move on to systems of generalization. It reveals quality comprehension manuals in an asynchronous format that are potentially applicable in a synchronous format. The main differences between the categories of quality assurance in synchronous and asynchronous format are established and their continuity is shown. Based on the analysis, an approach is proposed to work on the quality of virtual university programs, combining theory and practice.
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