Saint Petersburg University (also co-founding member of the Global MOOC Alliance) has welcomed a Coursera delegation comprising its Director of partnerships for EMEA and APAC Nayeli Wild and its Associate Director for University and Industry Partnerships Nora Juraboeva.
St Petersburg University has been a Coursera partner since 2017. Today, the platform hosts 169 online courses with more than 840,000 students. With its impressive indicators, the University ranks among the top five Coursera universities. With its predominant number of online courses posted on the platform, it has become number one in Europe.
Director of partnerships for EMEA and APAC, Coursera
Associate Director for University and Industry Partnerships, Coursera
Senior Vice-Rector for Academic Activities, Saint Petersburg University
During the meeting, the Coursera leadership and Marina Lavrikova, Senior Vice-Rector for Academic Activities of Saint Petersburg University, discussed the prospects of joint courses involving the University. Among them were objectives to launch: digital master’s programmes; master-track certificate programmes; and some pilot courses for specialities in various fields of study. They also gave their attention to the issues on programmes taught in English and on how to increase the relevancy of the standard courses.
The participants of the meeting visited the Saint Petersburg University Centre of E-learning Development. The state-of-the-art equipment of the video studio impressed them greatly. After that, the guests had an excursion around the University.
‘The spirit of generation continuity prevailing at the University resembles me Oxford where I studied,’ noted Nayeli Wild.
This article originally appears in https://english.spbu.ru/news-events/news/st-petersburg-university-and-global-online-learning-platform-coursera-prospects
