University Employees Took Courses on the Coursera Platform

09:40, August 13, 2021

Training will help teachers create their own online projects

The Center for Development of Online Learning at Ural Federal University organized a Creating a Guided Project For Coursera Project Network course on the Coursera platform for the university's employees.

The employees immersed themselves in the issues of producing and creating mass online courses (MOOCs) and guided projects (GPs), studied aspects of methodological design and technical implementation of modern educational products.

"This training will allow both newcomers and their more experienced faculty colleagues to plan and create their educational projects more effectively," commented Alexandra Kuzmina, director of the Online Learning Development Center.

After the training, the participants received Coursera certificates and began developing their own projects.

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.