Learning management systems in 2020-2021: Problems, challenges and prospects.

The article deals with the analysis of expertise of a number of countries that were actively engaged in the process of transitioning their learning environment from campuses with their in-person classes to an online learning environment using various learning management systems, or online educational platforms, each of which possesses a number of tools. The term 'remote learning' is used together with more conventional terms of 'distance learning' or 'distance education'. The key purposes of the current research are to systematically describe the factual situation in the system of higher education in different world regions - from North-America to Asia – during the Covid-19 Pandemic spread in the year 2020 and to compare the online platforms used in the mentioned regions in the course of digital and distance learning in higher educational establishments. The findings of this multi-faceted research are compared and contrasted in the Discussions section which is aimed at summarizing the technological and methodological solutions of the leading learning management systems (LMS) that could be used in the process of developing a locally targeted educational platform. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]