SOCIAL INSTITUTION OF EDUCATION AND COMPUTER VIRTUAL REALITY: POINTS OF INFLUENCE

Abstract

This article discusses the impact of computer virtual reality to education as a social institution. Author gives a description of education as a social institution. Outlines the main changes of the institute of education under the influence of a virtual online-environment. Author makes the following conclusions: 1. Computer virtual reality expands sphere of activity of social institution of education. 2. Computer virtual reality deletes status and role differences. It influences on the system of interactions of members of educational process. 3. Internet become an instrument of realization of the educational functions. 4. Virtual reality of Internet begins to fulfill socialization and transmission of sociocultural experience as social institution of education does.