Keyword: «online courses»

The article reveals problems of the organizational work on the transfer of all students of the university to training with the use of computer and distance learning technologies in the conditions of quarantine. The author of the article analyzes the experience of the parallel solution of several interrelated tasks, such as: search for optimal software to carry out different types of online classes; creation of the educational content required for students’ distance learning; development of local acts of the university regulating the process of the use of computer-aided learning and distance learning technologies. The article also specifies possible ways to solve the issues under consideration.

The promotion of the idea of continuous education and the emergence of many new professions in the virtual world have contributed to the development of online education. The abstract presents the current statistics of the online education market in Russia, considers the principles of operation of the main online platforms, and also indicates the main prospects for the development of this industry.