The article analyses different forms of education at a distance which can provide new ways of education, the creation of continuous training without leaving the basic activity of a person, the background of which can be the information of all spheres of social life. Referring to the works of domestic and foreign scientists the stages of distance education as an innovative form of task realization of educational activity have been studied. The criteria of the determination of distance education stages are economic and social factors connected with the development of means of communication. Three stages of incipience and development of this form of education are: post education, correspondence education, and electronic education. The following advantages of distance education are described in the article: the accordance of forms of distance education to rapid dynamics of social-economic development of human community; the support of principles of open education; an opportunity and necessity to use information-communicative technologies by educational institutions; the promotion of further development of the computerization of education; the change of valuable priorities in the process of preparation of future specialists to the side of positive attitude to education as to continuous process. The advantages of blended learning involvement into the process of future specialists’ preparation have been analyzed. The essence of blended learning as a form of future specialists’ professional preparation has been explained. The perspectives of the usage of modern information technologies used in blended learning directly for future specialists have been outlined.