Massive open courses for teachers

About online courses

Massive open online courses (MOOC) as an educational format emerged in the early 2010s and today form an important part of life of many people all over the world, striving for new knowledge and self-development.

In 2014, TSU relied on development of own online courses, resulting in our first MOOC “Sketches of Siberia. The city of Tomsk” – a course for studying Russian as a foreign language, oriented to make the listeners familiar with the history and cultural heritage of Tomsk.

Today, the online course portfolio of TSU includes more than 100 MOOCs hosted by various educational platforms, such as Coursera or Stepik, and the number of listeners of our MOOCs has exceeded 1 million. A team of specialists from the Online Course Development and Support Center of TSU Institute of Distance Education performs the full cycle of MOOC production, including support, promotion, and research in the sphere of online learning. Jointly with experts, we will help the online course developers to implement their most interesting ideas.

TSU annually develops more than 10 online courses in collaboration with the best teachers of the university and external experts. Since 2021, the Institute of Distance Education has also created online Master’s degree programs.

TSU MOOCs rewarded at the EdCrunch Award annual international contest:

MOOCs offer knowledge and skills publicly available for all interested people. International educational online platforms Coursera and Stepik offer TSU online courses on various disciplines: arts, humanities, business and management, computer technologies, biological sciences, psychology, physics, mathematics and logic, engineering, sociology. Any interested person from any part of the world has the opportunity to learn something for free during the courses developed by teachers from the world leading universities, and the best business trainers and practitioners from the professional community.