Natalia A. Pavlova

The relevance of this study lies in the fact that current educational standards focus on the self-organization of students through managing their time, building and implementing the trajectory of their self-development. In this regard, there is a need to search for new forms of organizing students’ independent work. The purpose of this work is to present an algorithm aimed at organizing independent work of university students through the online course “Foreign Language”. To achieve this goal, the method of analyzing psychological and pedagogical literature was used to clarify the concepts “independent work”, “digital educational resource”, “online course”, as well as observation and survey methods that help identify the capacity of the online course “Foreign Language” in organizing independent work of students. The article presents the format of the online course “Foreign Language”, describes its elements and the algorithm of actions aimed at organizing students’ independent work. The scientific novelty of this study lies in a comprehensive analysis of the concepts “independent work of students” and “online course”, in the presentation of a possible structure of an online course aimed at organizing independent work in teaching foreign languages. The article is theoretically significant because it allows us to clarify the types of independent work, the organization of which can be positively influenced by the online course on the discipline “Foreign Language”. The article is practically significant, since the presented algorithm of actions can be useful to teachers in organizing students’ independent work not only in teaching foreign languages. The main results of the study allow us to draw a conclusion about the effectiveness of organizing students’ independent work using an online course in teaching foreign languages. This is explained by the fact that independent study or revision of material is carried out at a time convenient for students. Assignments are offered according to the degree of difficulty in various aspects of teaching foreign languages (lexical, grammatical aspects, reading, writing). Students have unlimited access to educational information, and the completion of assignments is monitored and evaluated by the teacher, shortcomings and errors in the work are highlighted, and original ideas of students are encouraged.