The article considers the development of information technologies in education and, in particular, in its part such as distance education. The focus is on the use of distance learning technologies in the most critical period of human existence, namely in the period of quarantine in connection with the global pandemic on the coronavirus COVID-19. The main problems of the application of distance education are considered, when it is necessary to teach remotely all students, starting from beginners

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... and ending with those who always want to learn. There is an urgent need to create new methods that would simplify the work of teachers in conducting distance learning, improve online teacher-student communication. There are also requirements for the executive authorities to address the issues of decent equipping of general secondary education institutions with computers, increasing the ICT competence of teachers, as well as the creation of a comprehensive Internet space. The issue of improving the information education of teachers in order to overcome pedagogical and psychological difficulties in conducting comprehensive distance education is covered. There is an increase in the role of educational libraries in the dissemination of distance education, as well as in the direction of helping users to remotely receive information that would meet their needs, in particular, highlighted the activities of the V. O. Sukhomlinskyі SSPL of Ukraine. The results of partial monitoring of dissertation research in the specialties 13.00.02 "Theory and methods of teaching (computer science)" and 13.00.10 "Information and communication technologies in education" concerning the issues of distance education for the period 1991—2019 are analyzed. Statistical data on the share of dissertations, the problem of which is the use of ICT in education, protected in research institutions and free educational institutions, in order to identify research activity on the outlined topic. .