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The design of distance courses is a perspective in modern education. Many of universities throughout the world offer a great number of online content (Cao at al., 2017, Kirilova at al., 2017). The research of large distance learning platform Coursera let to find a wide range of music teaching courses including ‘Introduction to Classical music’ (Yale, USA), ‘The world of the string quartet’ (Philadelphia, USA) and ‘Jazz improvisation’ (Berklee, USA). The leading base in distance education is the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) (Ramirez-Montoya et al., 2017). The MOOC is useful for realization of productive pedagogic approaches. The most part of research works in distance education is focused on Moodle (Olmos at al., 2015) in aspect of quality in virtual education environments (Eilam, 2015). Researchers distinguish some arguments for support of e-learning: accessibility, flexibility, and interactivity (Rosenberg, 2001). According to researchers the distance learning is an important way for providing teacher instructions without any barriers such as socio-economic status or geographical location, offering deep reflection by instructors of teaching process (Pike, 2017).
Humanistic pedagogic was on the leading positions in world education during the second half of the twentieth century where the main principles became the treatment of student`s personality, respect of free self-expression and self-development. This pedagogy allows to reorient the main goals of education, including the most significant principles such as free creative, self-education, self-activation of critical thinking, creation of an individual path of personal development based on self-determination of learning purposes. The lead tendencies of the modernization of the education system through the humanistic pedagogy is the increasing of importance of the eternal human values such as art, beauty and harmony. Careful attention to the art traditions, the providing of their transporting from old generation to the youth, the cultivation of the aesthetic values is an important source of the basic principles of the human society, that is necessary for further productive development of cultures. For successful development of modern society the aesthetic education must keep the prior position, where its importance and huge role for the people will be necessary.
Despite the fact that recent studies research modern approaches for the development ‘of an individual capable of artistic and creative re-comprehension and the development of the surrounding world in accordance with the laws of beauty’ (Akhmetshina & Kadyjrova, 2017, p.190) including such approaches as person-centered approach (Akhmetshina et al., 2018) and subject-oriented approach as actual tool of recent research works at pedagogic and education, this way of thinking did not find appropriate methods in music teacher education.
The analysis of the setting of aesthetic education in the educational process of higher educational institutions shows that the existing forms and methods of teaching do not fully utilize the modern achievements of scientific and pedagogical thought. One of the important spheres of aesthetic education in Russia is the system of general music training. It preserves the orientation towards an objective approach and does not take into account the possibilities of free creative self-realization of the person by means of aesthetic education, the development of a conscious attitude to aesthetic values, the perception of art and the surrounding reality through the aesthetic concepts and categories.
Current researches in the field of music education indicate insufficient demand for human’s artistic and creative manifestations in art (Abankwa, & Mikkila-Erdmann, 2018). The need for greater focus on individual, subjective-personal assessments and creative, spiritual, meaningful interpretations is due to the very essence of music as an art form. A purposeful pedagogical influence on the formation of knowledge and ideas about aesthetic concepts and categories in art and the surrounding reality by the example of the integration of words and music, the need for free expression of creative individuality is a prerequisite for the formation of a high level of aesthetic culture of a university student capable of making a socially significant contribution to society. Nevertheless, such requirements have not been fully realized in modern educational practices.