The rapidly changing reality of the modern world dictates its own rules. Out of the blue, information-technological opportunities have not just become a helping tool in the education process but, literally, a salvation in relocating education onto Internet platforms, thus actualizing the opportunities and specific features of distant education, its advantages and disadvantages, problem solutions and development trajectories. The article deals with these debatable issues in terms of the attitude to distance education of teachers and students. It contains the data obtained by the study of effectiveness of organization of the education process under the conditions of distance education carried out by the master's degree students of the Defecto-logical Faculty of Moscow State Peda-gogical University.В статье рассматривается восприятие дистанционного образования преподавателями и студентами Московского педагогического государственного университета