Features of teaching drug technology via distance learning

Abstract

Modern challenges and the development of Internet technologies have led to a change in the role of education in society and in the training of specialists. Education is no longer a means of mastering ready-made knowledge, but becomes a way of information exchange, which involves the assimilation, transmission and generation of information. Modern higher education demonstrates flexibility and mobility; its characteristics are innovation and interactivity, and the global network is used as an effective learning tool. During the pandemic, distance learning of the educational process requires a set of distance learning courses in all disciplines, which are taught in each educational institution. ‘Technology of Drugs’ as an academic discipline belongs to the cycle of basic disciplines of professionally oriented training of specialists in the specialty ‘Pharmacy, Industrial Pharmacy’. It is designed for graduates of full-time and parttime education, provides theoretical knowledge and develops practical skills on the main stages of formation and development of pharmaceutical technology in Ukraine. ‘Technology of Drugs’ curriculum is also an an entry point to knowledge about modern areas of the pharmaceutical industry and professional activity in Ukraine and abroad, general requirements for the manufacture of drugs of different pharmaceutical groups in pharmacies and industrial pharmaceutical companies. The above-mentioneddiscipline requires careful mastering of practical skills of manufacturing different groups of drugs, which causes certain features of its teaching in distance learning.