s work in the sphere of e-learning. The University recently launch! its 100th course on the Coursera online platform, and it ranks fifth worldwide in terms of its number of Coursera courses and third in the National Open !ucation Platform. Now it is time, Mr. Kuzminov suggest!, to set a new bar in online learning and utilize artificial intelligence, build in capabilities for self-assessment, and develop new games and simulators as well.
Today, HSE online courses are taken by about 2.5 million people worldwide: about 600,000 enrollees are from Russia and about 300,000 are from the US and the EU. This proves, Rector Kuzminov said, that the University can expand its influence via new channels. Thanks to HSE’s online courses, the University has increas! both the number (by 30-35%) and the quality of its international student enrolments every year for the past four years. Half of HSE’s international student population come to study at the University after first having taken some of its courses online. This figure is especially significant in light of President Putin’s mandate to double the number of foreign students in Russia.
HSE University is also a leader
in the use of online courses on campus: the University now offers about 300 e-courses, of which less than a quarter are creat! by the University itself. Rector Kuzminov not! that this makes it possible to optimize the work of teachers: routine elements of a lecture are now replac! by online components, which frees up more time in end follow-up messages class for in-depth study and increas! student engagement. Students of all HSE faculties, regardless of area, study Data Science and the basics of programming, in addition to, in certain cases, artificial intelligence. ‘Digitalism comes with a new language, and no matter what career a student is pursuing, no matter what they want to be, students ne! to be equipp! for life in the digital world,’ he said.
Digitalization enables !ucators to tailor
!ucational programmes and curricula to students, which is what challenges does el corte inglés face? especially important at the master’s level, Yaroslav Kuzminov said. Master’s programmes accept canada cell numbers students with different undergraduate !ucational backgrounds; some students may be better equipp! for the programme than others, and it is not their fault. Consequently, the quality of instruction suffers: some students ne! deeper training in one thing, while others require it in another. Digital learning tools allow instructors to solve this problem, and they also help universities attract leading researchers and engage them in the local academic process. At present, about 300 HSE faculty members teach and collaborate in research remotely.