Main Body. Before the problems of vocatio-
nal education had been considered, mainly
within the framework of each country, nowadays
the research of mutual influence of pedagogical
processes in the global dimension is actualized.
Kazakhstan education system will exist and
function in the coming socio-cultural dimension,
that is why to find real ways of its renewal
and improvement is of great importance. The
twenty-first century experts call the age of the
information society, a knowledge-based society.
The rapid growth of scientific knowledge, the
development of technology lead to the fact that
the education received now is not enough to
carry out professional activities. And if earlier
the educational level of the population had been
considered to be one of the main indicators of
the country national wealth, the importance of
acquiring new additional knowledge by working
adults has now been growing strongly. It should
be noticed that educational needs of modern
people are diverse and focused on obtaining
basic and additional education, on maintaining
and improving health, making the quality of
family life better, having meaningful leisure and
demanding further personal development, etc.
In the Kazakhstan Republic, the system of
additional vocational education is at the stage of
being formed and structured. In this connection,
it is necessary to examine the personality of the
adult trainee, his needs, opportunities, and his
interests in the world experience of additional
adult education as well.
Among the countries where higher education
institutions, along with the traditional model of
higher professional education, are focused on
the creating and developing the adult education
system, are the United States of America. This
country is traditionally considered to be a leader in
developing the strategy and tactics of education,
using the latest pedagogical technologies,
modern approaches and techniques and putting
them into practice. In the United States, the
problems of citizens' education are normally
solved at the state level. For the first time in the
United States of America, at the beginning of
the 1960s, the Law on workers training and their
further employment was adopted, in connection
with the automatic machines inculcating and
the production processes complicating. In
1973, the Law on the Workers Preparing and
Employment was adopted, providing activities
to strengthen the links between vocational and
general education. Having adopted this Law
and some others, the American government
increased the subsidies for the needs of adult
vocational training [1].In 1983, the problem
of setting the standards for general academic
education of the younger generation was raised
by the National Commission appointed by
the US President. In 1990, on the basis of the
commission's report, the US President George
W. Bush announced the education reform goals
and objectives, among the most important there
was a goal to educate adults. It was stated in the
Commission Report that one of the reasons for
unemployment in the country was the lack of the
vocational training quality in the high schools
and the US scientists believed and still do that
it is far-sighted to invest in the adult education.
Currently, the several models of additional
professional education (the APE) in the United
States can be identified: teaching and further
training in business sphere, in the field of
industry and social work. It is usually called
"continued education". In the context of
supplementary education, the proposed models
include two components: training organized on
the initiative of the learner himself pursuing
personal or professional goals, as well as
training according curricula, which, along with
training, provide the acquisition of relevant
practical experience [2]. Among the students
enrolled in the programs of higher continuing
education as the experience shows there is a
significant number of specialists who participate
in the APE, not only for the sake of obtaining
a new profession, or a license for occupational
activity or a scientific degree. Many students,
when choosing definite training courses, pursue
personal developing goals in order to broaden
their knowledge horizons, providing assistance
to the local community, and attend the training
courses that are considered to be an additional
training for professional growth.
With the rapid development of new infor-
mation technologies and, in particular, the
Internet, it became possible to talk about a new
structure of additional interactive vocational
training. This type of education was most widely
spread in the USA. In the early stages (before
the first decade of 1990s), distance education
in the United States was not systematized,
both geographically and in terms of various
professional fields covering. Its main goal was
to involve those categories of students who
aspired to improve their skills in some of the
most popular areas (first of all, such as machine
building, business administration, etc.) without
interruption their working activity. With the
development of technologies, including in the
field of education, distance learning offers to
various social groups due to their accessibility
(physically and economically) the widest
range of programs in the sphere of secondary
special, higher and subsequent education. Many
American states have large-scale programs for
the distance learning developing nowadays.
The first programs of that kind used cable
television as the main channel for information
to be transferred, and the sites on the Internet
acted as an supplementary information resour-
ce. In addition, within the framework of
various programs video lectures of some higher
educational institutions were used. Many of the
programs mentioned above are still in progress,
but recent years their share in the total volume
of distance learning programs has decreased
mainly due to the increased role of computer
technologies in the distance learning education
system. It should be noted that distance
education in the US has been developing and
existing in geographic conditions very similar
to Kazakhstan: a large potential student
audience live in remote and relatively less
developed areas. But technologically, and
most importantly economically, the USA, for a
number of objective reasons, was able to solve
this problem by creating telecommunication-
educational networks of distance learning
specifically targeted at the states where the
number of non-urban population is still high [3].
The rapid continuous changes happening
in society, in the economy system, and at the
labor market necessitated the acquisition of new
knowledge and skills not only in the process
of vocational training, but also directly in the
period of working activity. This function is