MOOCs


MOOCs are offered on open access on online platforms in various directions: art, humanities, business and management, computer technologies, biological sciences, psychology, physics, mathematics and logic, engineering, and sociology. So everyone from around the world can gain knowledge in the courses developed by the leading university professors, school teachers, additional education teachers, the best practitioners and business coaches from the professional community.

MOOC features

Free and affordable education for everyone who has Internet access
Video lectures 4–12 minutes long
Various check forms of work: short free answers, tasks with formula derivation and programming, midterm and final tests with deadlines
Peer review assignments in which learners review and grade each other’s work (essays, art, design projects, etc.)
Free communication between the instructor and learners
Earning a Course Certificate after passing all required assignments in the course

Partners

coursera

Coursera is the leading world platform of online education whose audience includes over 13 million people. Coursera provides open access to the educational courses developed by the best universities and the organizations of the world. The platform offers about 1,300 courses and collaborates with more than 125 partners.

The platform is used for publishing online courses created by the members of the National Open Education Platform Association and the partners, facilitates the adoption of international standards, formulates its own requirements to the quality of online courses and collaborates with providers of higher educational programmes, which are implemented using online courses hosted on the platform. Upon successful completion of the course, learners get a course certificate, and credits for the course can be counted towards the students’ curriculum at any university in Russia.

Лекториум

Лекториум (Lektorium) is an academic educational project developing two areas:

  1. Archive of video lectures of the best Russian lecturers (published only in coordination with the lecturers and educational institutions). Access to the library is free.
  2. MOOC (Massive Online Open Course).
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Stepik is an educational engine and platform, focused on STEM open lessons. Stepic allows for easy creation of interactive lessons with a variety of automated grading assignments.

Stepik vision is to build a library of open education content to be created and developed collaboratively by the community.


PushkinOnline combines an online course of Russian as a foreign language, an online school for teachers of Russian as a foreign language, open online courses for those studying Russian as a foreign language and an integrated social network to enable communication between interested parties.

Collaboration with proctoring services

 

TSU MOOCs: Facts and Figures

               
     
one mooc prodection 25 places
      3-21% complete 99% positive feedback
500 learners
100 000 5 schools

Integrating MOOCs into formal education

Tomsk State University policy concerning MOOC recognition is presented in the local regulatory document - Regulations on open online courses credit transfer at TSU. It covers the procedure and the conditions of that credit transfer, requirements that e-learninng results should meet to be transfered, rules on defining teh academic workload in credits, credit units or academic hours.

TSU MOOC Team

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VICTOR DYOMIN
Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs

Strategic initiative management in the framework of Tomsk State University Competitiveness Enhancement Program

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ARTEM FESHCHENKO
Head of Department of Information Technologies of the Institute of Distance Education

Project promotion

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ALEXANDR STEPANENKO
Programmer of the Institute of Distance Education

Technical support of the МООСs on the TSU online platform

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GALINA MOZHAEVA
Director of the Institute of Distance Education

Project leadership

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OLGA DVORYANKINA
Cutter of the Institute of Distance Education

Cutting work, design

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DARIA MASLOVA
Head of MOOC Production and Support Centre

Project management

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KRISTINA TANASENKO
Career advisor of the Institute of Distance Education

Analytics in e-learning and online learning quality. Support of the МООСs on the National Open Education Platform

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YULIA DUBOVIK

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