There are considered the peculiarities of distant teaching and education, discussed the research results of adult students’ perception of approaches to teaching in electronic environment based on the suggested models of teaching in cyberspace - pedagogic and andragogic ones.

There is researched the communicative and conflictological competence of students and higher school teachers; the strategies of conflict settlement, aims at team work. There is shown that active participation in the seminar devoted to conflict settlement with the use of interactive teaching methods improves the level of knowledge, understanding, interest to the ways of conflict settlement.