Central Institute of Distance Education

In January 1927, the Bureau of Distance Learning was created under Glavprofobr . In accordance with the draft Glavprofobra on the organization of the system of distance education, the created training center was called the Bureau of distance learning at the pedagogical department of the 2nd Moscow State University (BZO at the 2nd Moscow State University). By a resolution of February 22, 1927, the Presidium of the collegium of the People's Commissariat for Education approved the provision on the Bureau of the Correspondence Department at the pedagogical department of Moscow State University, headed by the dean of the pedagogical faculty O. L. Bem. Thus, February 22, 1927 can be considered the day of the official birth of higher correspondence education.

The methodological literature published by the BZO only in the academic year 1928-1929 reached a total volume of 400 printed sheets. After the first local correspondence conference was held in 1928 in Stalingrad, a network of local consultation centers began to be created, and the organization of local correspondence conferences became a tradition. At the Stalingrad Conference, an association of external students of the pedagogical faculty of the 2nd Moscow State University and the Institute for Advanced Training of Teachers (IPPP) under Glavsotsvos was created . In total, the association included 65 people. And a year later, in 1929, the correspondence conference was held in Moscow by the physics and mathematics department of the pedagogical faculty. This association of external students and educators served as the basis for the creation of the Central Institute of Extramural Pedagogical Education after the dissolution of the 2nd Moscow State University in 1930.

TSIZPO was organized to expand the contingents of pedagogical educational institutions, leading the training of relevant personnel. The Institute included a correspondence pedagogical college and a correspondence pedagogical institute, the structure of which corresponded to the structure of stationary pedagogical technical schools and pedagogical institutes. The following tasks were declared about the organization of TSIZPO:

1. Assistance to the organization at pedagogical technical schools and pedagogical institutes of correspondence sectors;
2. Preparation and publication of the necessary educational literature for persons studying in absentia;
3. Development of the main issues of the methodology of distance education;
4. Providing instructive and methodological assistance to teaching staff in the field of distance education;
5. Assistance to externs of pedagogical educational institutions in the work on passing the corresponding courses provided by the curriculum.

The institute's activity was regulated by the "Regulation on the correspondence course sectors of pedagogical universities and pedagogical technical schools", according to which:

1. The general management of the work of all correspondence - course sectors and the supply of correspondence to the educational literature is carried out by the Center for Education and Science through regional - regional departments of public education.
2. Each sector is headed by a manager (assistant director for distance learning and retraining of teacher training courses).
3. Each pedagogical college should serve up to 500 extramural students, and each pedagogical university should have up to 2000-3000 people so that at least 25% of the contingent would go through laboratory and seminar work.
4. Funding consisted of allocations from the local state budget, subsidies from local business bodies, and tuition fees.

However, shortly after its founding, the work of the CIZPO was found to be unsatisfactory, and in 1931 it was reorganized and merged into the newly formed structure - the Central Institute for Continuing Education and distance learning of public education personnel (TsIPKZOKNO).

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