Electronic education: Russia and the World

Abstract

The article is devoted to topical issues of e-education development in Russia and in the world. The author analyzes the state of online education in the sphere of higher education, as well as the prospects of export of services on the basis of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) developed by Russian universities in foreign languages. The paper presents current data on key indicators of the online education market in Russia and in the foreign countries. In our country, it is planned to increase the number of students in online courses to 11 million people and develop at least 4,000 online courses by 2025. To achieve these indicators in 2017-2018 IPACS RANEPA is implementing a joint project with the Ministry of Higher Education to promote Russian online courses in foreign languages to the international educational market. To implement this project, a consolidated database of existing programs in the distance format in foreign languages in higher education institutions of Russia was created. The next task of the project was to identify the most promising programs worthy of promotion on the world market, their qualitative and quantitative analysis. To do this, it is necessary to study the best foreign and domestic experience in creating online programs, to explore new ‘products' of the educational market. The basis of the project was the creation of an infrastructure for the promotion and transfer of information on courses selected in the previous stages in foreign languages developed at Russian universities.