MOOCS FOR TRANSLATORS: CURRENT STATE AND DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS IN RUSSIA
MOOCs provide resources for professional development of translator skills and ofer self-study and self-paced models that can be used for translators' autonomous learning. The new phenomenon in the world of education - Massive Open Online Courses - should be analysed in the context of its capacity to improve training quality for both novice translators and experienced professionals. This paper reviews Russian and foreign MOOC platforms focusing on the availability and quality of online courses for translators they ofer. As a result of the research the authors hope to identify the main advantages and disadvantages of the online courses available and the degree of their integration into the professional training of translators, as well as to determine translators' needs and requirements for the process of independent learning from translation basics and the translation of specialised texts in various felds.