Online course as a form of online education at a university

The article analyzes research that reveals the features of online education, studies examples of Russian universities for organizing online courses; presents the experience of the M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University on the creation of an Electronic ecosystem of distance learning in the educational process of the university. On the example of the online course «Pedagogy and Psychology of Higher education», developed for future teachers of the Russian language and literature (Russian as a foreign language), the structure, components, and possibilities of the course are shown. The advantages of the presented online course are determined: independent mastering of the course at a convenient time for students; training regardless of the location of students; interactive communication in the forum chat; placement of lecture materials, questions and tasks for self-control, glossary in two languages (Russian, Chinese); the opportunity for content development: updating literature, updating the glossary, additional placement of presentations and other multimedia products.