MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSES AND THEIR ROLE IN THE CONTINUING EDUCATION
Gulaya Tat'yana Mikhailovna, Romanova Svetlana Anatol'evna
Plekhanov Russian University of Economics
Abstract. The article deals with one of the modern trends in the development of online education - massive open online courses (MOOCs), which are an open and flexible form of continuing education with the use of information and communication technologies. The authors analyze the user’s audience of massive open online courses, and give the statistical data on the number of students, the information about the world's greatest providers of the new educational platform, the certification, and the prevailing languages of instructions and the courses with a large number of registered users.
Key words and phrases: информационное общество, массовые открытые онлайн курсы, информационно-коммуникационные технологии, непрерывное образование, информационно-образовательная среда, целевая аудитория, information society, massive open online courses, information and communication technologies, continuing education, information-educational environment, target audience
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