Massive open online courses-the modern concept in education and learning

Yury L Kostyuk, Ilya Levin, Alexander L Fuks, Irina L Fuks, Anna E Yankovskaya

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Abstract

The history of implementing various informational technologies in education began more than 50 years ago. This area started developing intensively with appearance of first personal computers in the beginning of 80-ies of the XX century. The first teaching systems were intended for testing, and were presented in a textual form and later - in a more illustrative graphical form. Computer networks, especially Internet has played the important role in development of the electronic education.
A new concept of presenting tutorials accessible to remote students was developed and formulated during the last two decades; it is called Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). The plurality of existing MOOCs not only form a reach collection of lectures, practical lessons, tests, computer records of various natural phenomena as well as demonstrations of processes held in a laboratory
Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)89-98
JournalVestnik Tomskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta - Upravlenie, Vychislitel'naya Tekhnika i Informatika
Volume26
StatePublished - 1 Mar 2014

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