The role of mass open online courses in the organization independent work of the future elementary school teachers

Abstract

Research goals: to reveal a role of the mass open online courses in the organization independent work of the future elementary school teachers. Research objectives: to determine the mass open online courses in psychology and pedagogy of the leading world universities which that are located on the platform Coursera; to analyse functionality and the main directions of application of mass open online courses in the organization of independent work of future elementary school teachers. Object of research: organization of independent work in the higher education institution. Subject of research: features of use of mass open online courses in the organization of independent work of future elementary school teachers. Research methods used: analysis of state standards, statistic data and scientific publications. Results of the research: courses which can be useful for future elementary school teachers and university teachers in psychology and pedagogy have been identified; functionality of mass open online courses in the organization of independent work of future elementary school teachers has been analysed. The main conclusions and recommendations: mass open online courses are form self-educational competence of students and create favorable conditions for independent knowledge acquisition and effective application it in practice.