Features of training an electrical engineer in the context of distance learning

According to the COVID-19 pandemic, educational institutions around the world were forced to urgently switch to distance learning. A particularly difficult situation has arisen in higher educational institutions when teaching special technical disciplines, where practical and laboratory exercises, which were conducted in laboratories and special classes before the COVID-19 pandemic, play an important role. Therefore, the paper presents a method for conducting practical and laboratory classes during on-line training on the example of the Department of Automotive Electronics of the Kharkiv National Automobile and Highway University (Ukraine). It is shown that the use of information technologies makes it possible to largely compensate for the lack of full-time classes. For special (subject) disciplines, the perception of information is achieved by using films demonstrating methods for the implementation of subject tasks. The main task of the teacher when conducting practical exercises in the conditions of distance learning is the competent selection of the source video material and its optimal fragmentation. In this regard, a classification of educational video content is proposed, and examples of its use by teachers during online classes are considered. The results of this work are intended to help educators improve the level of engineering education during distance learning.