Methodical potential of e-courses in distance education

The article deals with the effectiveness of distance education for students which depends on: the real time of education, the level of cognitive interests, the level of motivation for education, the establishment of the education system effective to each student and elaboration of e-courses. Special e-course "New tendencies in linguistics" elaborated on LMS MOODLE of Kherson State University "KSU Online" for first-year students obtaining master's degree, aims at expanding their knowledge in Cognitive Linguistics, Semiotics and Pragmatics, presents learning material in a methodically unified form and creates conditions of its content usage in any place and at any time apart from the form of students' education. According to the results of the investigation, the level of students' autonomy while doing given tasks is increasing significantly as well as the amount of educational web-pages visits on open platforms.