UrFU Helps Russian Universities with Distance Learning

10:09, March 26, 2020

52 courses are available for free, webinars for teaching staff are open as well

Ural Federal University has opened free access to its online courses on the Open Education platform for the duration of the prevention of coronavirus infection. In total, access to 52 courses of different directions is open.

Over the first week, the university has received a lot of applications from Russian universities for UrFU online courses. The total number of requests at the moment is over 800. Among the active participants were Nizhnevartovsk State University, Sevastopol State University, Magnitogorsk State Technical University named after G. I. Nosova and others.

“Currently, the most popular courses are Life Safety and Intellectual Property Management. In general, increased interest in programming and the humanities. It’s joyful that at such a transitional moment, universities help each other,” UrFU staff mentioned.

In addition, since March 24, a series of tutorial webinars for teachers was organized on how to choose an online course for the implementation of the discipline, organizing distance learning, following the approved curriculum.

Ural Federal University is one of the leading universities in Russia founded in 1920. UrFU is located in Yekaterinburg, the capital of the Ural region, an economic, industrial, scientific and cultural center of Russia. The university is the project office of the Ural Interregional Research and Education Center "Advanced Industrial Technologies and Materials" designed for solving tasks of "Science" National Project.