Experience of using online educational courses in teaching students of technical universities

Abstract

This article is devoted to the problem of rethinking the use of online educational courses (OEC) in teaching students of technical universities in social, humanitarian and a number of specialized disciplines. The positive and negative aspects of the introduction of online educational courses into the modern educational process are considered. The article offers three formats of online educational courses: Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC), Shared Online Educational Courses (SOEC), and University Online Educational Courses (UOEC), which could successfully improve the existing system of teaching students, both in Russia and in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Online educational courses (OEC) in this article are considered in a broad context and include the concepts of «electronic educational resources», «distance learning» and «online learning» in general. The authors also highlighted the positions approved by federal legislation regarding the introduction of online educational courses (OEC) in the environment of the university, offered their vision of the implementation of these documents. The authors made the following conclusions: on the one hand the use of online educational courses is a prerequisite for the successful existence of any educational organization in modern reality, on the other hand OECs (MOOCs, SEOCs, UOECs) implemented within the framework of the model of replacing part of full-time courses with exclusively distance format are not suitable for all students. The vast majority of students are still ready to study online educational courses under teachers’ supervision with the use of blended learning.