Distance education in the context of visuality: pro and contra

The paper analyzes the problem of implementing the achievements of visual culture in distance education. The evolution of the discourse of visual culture and its specificity in relation to visual studies, which perform special functions in cognition, language, education, art,
science, religion, is shown. The main parameters of the relations between
visual culture and distance learning as a natural result of the development
of the information-digital age are determined. The efficiency of including
visual presentations in the variety of their forms in distance learning is
substantiated, it is proved that they carry a certain semantic load, make
the subject material visible, generate various visual metaphors that form
new images and visual schemes, and develop visual literacy.