Data Culture & Digital Transformation of Education

HSE University is developing a system to educate specialists for the digital economy, relying on our unique expertise in computer and data science, as well as the advantages of remote learning technologies.

Data Culture:

Creating and integrating courses in data science, programming, and machine learning into students’ curricula, e.g., by 2024, one fourth of students will be taking elective elements from the Data Culture module.
Specialised training programmes for instructors in non-IT subjects and practice-oriented programmes to train specialists for the digital economy.
Mandatory independent assessments of the digital skills of students and instructors by leading digital companies (e.g., Yandex, Sberbank, Kaspersky Lab, SAS, JetBrains, Tinkoff, etc.).
Transferring the Data Culture module to other academic institutions as a package solution.

Digitalisation of education:

Mastering courses in conjunction with the application of distance learning technologies.
Providing AI-driven e-learning resources that can replace duplicated elements of core lectures.
Extending e-learning: by 2030, online technologies will be utilised in 60% of courses, and 25% of courses will be completely taught online.
Creating globally focused educational products using digital and online technologies.
Creating digital services for project work, assessing outcomes and building a portfolio.

Success Story: Online Education at HSE University

HSE University is active in the implementation of digital technologies to provide a wide range of people with the opportunity to receive high-quality education, successfully combining it with career and other activities.

HSE University is one of the leaders in online education in Russia: 355 online courses are available on University's e-learning platform; 12 graduate and 4 undergraduate e-learning programmes with over 1,600 students from more than 70 countries.

The University’s eLearning Office is an expert centre, engaged in the development and provision of technical, organisational, methodological and analytical support for all of the University’s e-learning projects.

These projects have allowed us to become the Online University of the Year in 2022 (according to results of All-Russia competition 'Effective Education').

HSE Voices

I decided to study at HSE University because I had already studied some of its courses on Coursera. I greatly improved my knowledge of algorithms and C++. So, I already knew the university well. And when I saw that there is a full programme on computer vision, I decided to apply

Nicholas Dupuy
PhD in material science, student of the online Master of Computer Vision programme