Abstract
Nowadays two mainstreams of “Globalization of online education” and “Its individualization” can be observed in the area of distance and online education. This article aimed at outlining some possibilities of foreign-language online courses that meet the trends mentioned above, as well as identifying tendencies in the development of distance education in Russia. Our paper is devoted to the analysis of MOOC market, both on a national as well as a worldwide basis. MOOCs integrate virtual educational space at the global level and their main characteristics include massive involvement, openness, online interaction between students and teachers in chats, video conferences, forums, automatic assessment of student performance while performing tests, and the system of mutual evaluation of each other's works by students. To further investigate the subject, the following methods were used: system analysis, synthesis, and generalization, as well as the method of comparison when identifying main trends in the development and dissemination of MOOC.
Highlights
The movement for open education appeared in the second half of the XX century with the goal of providing a wide access to educational materials and creating opportunities of receiving education for almost everyone
The aim of this study is to identify challenging factors for massive open online courses (MOOC) from both foreign students and students or teachers from Russian universities
We considered their purposes of studying MOOC, and analyzed the main advantages and disadvantages of such a training
Summary
The movement for open education appeared in the second half of the XX century with the goal of providing a wide access to educational materials and creating opportunities of receiving education for almost everyone. It has received a new image in the XX1 century in the form of massive open online courses (MOOC). Siemens about his online course “Connectivism and Connective Knowledge”, which was the first MOOC. Ideas for open online courses and the possibility of registering people who are not students of a specific university were expressed even before this course started
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