1. Transformation of a Conventional
University into an e-University in
Emerging Smart Society
(Case of MESI)

2. Smart Society & Smart City
government
business
technologies

3. Components of a Smart City
of the 21st century
ECONOMY
“GREEN”
INFRASTRUCTURE
“SMART HOME”
INTERNET
SIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
MOBILITY
QUALITY OF LIFE
UNIQUENESS

4. Big Societal Transformations
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Society Management Services
Accelerated Learning Environments
Horizon 2020 Program
Global Initiatives
Citizens mass participation
Social inclusion and social integration
Behaviour transformation
Sense of belonging and identity
Open Government Partnership
«Cloud» Technology
High Tech Systems & Materials
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5. Generation Z – they comes,
get ready!
• play virtual games;
• enjoying virtual drawing;
• Study: At-home 3-D printing;
• learning language;
• learning musical instruments;
• puzzles developing logic;
• gaining text;
• watching cartoons;
• communicate with friends.

6. How Russian parents
view and capitalize on Digital Media?
90% of children
use phone regularly
80% of children
regularly use a computer
Digital Parenting Russia Study, 2012
digitalparentingrussia.com

7. The 15 biggest education
trends
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MOOCs & OpenupEd
National and institutional aspects of online teaching and learning
Institutional models for online or blended course and curriculum
development
Innovations in technology enhanced learning for the future
Quality assurance in online and distance learning
Good practices of transitions to open and flexible learning
Research strand on national and institutional aspects of opening up
education and institutional models for curriculum development and delivery
Transforming the learning environment
Attract international students, but stay local
Collaborate and compete with other universities
Alternative credentialing platforms
Learning management systems
Tablets & smartphones & E-textbooks
Nontrivial courses
New professions

8. MOOCs: Top sites for free education
with elite universities
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Coursera
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Coder Dojo
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Codecademy
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Carnegie Mellon Open Learning
Initiative
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Google Code University
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Khan Academy
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Stanford iTunes U
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MIT Open Courseware
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Mobiletuts+
10. Mozilla Developer Network
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Free-Ed
EdX
Learn Python The Hard Way
Learning Space: The Open University
O’Reilly
Treehouse
Tufts Open Courseware
UMass Boston Open Courseware
Udemy
Udacity

9. The evolution of educational
paradigm
«Student-teacher»
• The students is obliged to attend
classes at university
• The only two sources of knowledge
are lectures and books
«Student-knowledge»
• The student has excellent basic IT
skills
• The student is capable to find
necessary information by his own
The modern student needs «guide»
in the world of knowledge, but not a source of knowledge!

10. Social network service
as a tool for a modern teacher
Networking
Cloud services
E-books,
social bookmarking
Online
Communities
News subscription,
video-channels
Open educational
resources
File
sharing
Always at hand –
anywhere in the world
Video
communications
News
Communities,
blogs, wiki

11. A 21st century teacher
• Focus on the student’s point of view.
• Dialogue with your students.
• Re-think how the student interprets your lesson.
• Let students question what they are learning.
• Make it real-life relevant.
• Let students contribute to their learning.
• Facilitate learning as opposed to giving knowledge.
• Have students photograph the world around them.
• Have students make time-lapse videos for later reflection.
• Participate in conference calls around the world your class.
• Let students use their cellphones.
• Have students create movie trailers for introduction to the lesson.
• Be just as teach savvy as your students.
• Have students design and create websites.

12. A 21st Century Teacher
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Get students involved with the community.
Teach students how to discern what is good information and what is not.
Incorporate seeing things from a different perspective.
Encourage and entertain all questions.
Flip the classroom with useful resources.
Documenting the learning for your reflection and the students’ reflection.
Learn new ways relate to your students.
Integrate theatrics into your classroom. Invest in the character you are teaching about.
Collaborate with teachers from outside your circle.
Design alternative assessments that use the whole brain.
Be social.
Learn, explore, integrate, utilize.
Use tablets, create apps. for tablets, explore information through the tablet.
Morphing into a 21st Century Teacher

13. Today a new task for teachers – not just to
share their own knowledge with students, their
own point of view, but also to give them the
chance to reach their own conclusions.

14. Our Student needs
student now
To create
training
materials
is fluent in basic
IT competence
able to find
himself required
information
doesn’t see the
need to record
lecture material
needs a “guide”
to the world of
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To carry out
classroom courses
What a student
needs?
To create new
knowledge
To conduct a student
towards learning
necessary
knowledge
Teach him with the
use of IT technologies
already familiar to him
student in past
was forced to
attend a
teacher’s
courses to record
the materials
the only source
of knowledge is
lectures and
books
Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics

15. Why students choose online
learning and their expectations?
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Convenience
Flexible pacing for completing a program
Work schedule
Cost
Program requirements
Reputation of institution
Financial assistance available
Ability to transfer credits
Future employment opportunities
Distance from campus
Recommendations from employer

16. The modern University
electronic
computer
1970
computer lab
1990
virtual reality
2010

17. E-University
In today’s world of web dominated networks,
learning from book, the traditional method of
knowledge acquisition has taken a new form of
appearance as web pages.
Due to the rapid growth in the information
technology people started using the internet as
the source for every little thing.

18. The research activities
in the e-University
Open educational
sources
External Research
and Development
Internal Research
and Development
Best practices
Teacher
The results of
scientific activities
are being formed
Educational
process is
improving
Consulting in
specialty areas
Instructional research
Internet
resources
www.company.com

19. Management of a university integrated
into the information environment
• Instrumental and methodological support of educational
process in the electronic distribution of university;
• Communicative integrated system of organization of
teaching/learning process;
• Communicative integrated system of human resources
management in joint information environment;
• Instrumental and methodical implementation of synergy
effects of the university management;
• Financial management in a electronic distributed
(umbrella) university.
www.company.com

20. MESI E-University
Social
networks
Open University
resourses
Students
User identity management
Learning Management
System
Educational Portal
Videoconferencing &
webinars
Electronic Library
Lecturers
Electronic Workflow
Everywhere access
University
cloud
infrastructure

21. MESI E-University
Staff
Everywhere access
Electronic workflow
Videoconferencing
Portfolio management
Unified communications
University management
Staff management
Finance management
Lecturers
University
cloud
infrastructure

22. Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and
Informatics (MESI) was founded in 1932. Nowadays it is
one of the leading Russian universities and combines
wide experience and scientific traditions with innovative
processes for educating and training professionals.
Fields of expertise:
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Institute of Management;
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Institute of Economics and Finance;
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Institute of Computer Technologies;
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Institute of Law and Humanities;
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Institute of Master Programs (Business School);
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Institute of Lifelong Learning;
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Research Institute for Knowledge Management;
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Research Institute for Quality Management.

23. MESI today
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15 departments offering Bachelor’s degrees
12 departments offering Master’s degrees
100% of workstations for students and faculty are equipped with computers
100% graduate employment
MESI annually holds about 30 large All-Russian olympiads, conferences, and
seminars, with a total number of participants around 4,000
a new-style higher education institution: research and innovative educational
establishment and e-university:
 each year MESI publishes more than 40 monographs and more than 750 research
articles
 each year MESI students publish more than 800 scientific publications
 MESI’s research and methodology base consists of more than 320,000 items
educational services sharpened at the international level
highly qualified faculty and administrative staff - 70% of teachers are working in
their fields of expertise, 85% have first post-graduate degrees and 15% are
professors
employment of modern teaching/learning methods and information and
communication technologies (ICT) and extensive use of modern software and
educational resources

24. Facts about MESI
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80 years of experience in staff development
70,000 students and auditors, including about 15,000 foreign citizens from 52
countries
the first Russian university to receive international certification under ISO
9001:2000 standard
the only Russian higher educational institution to be a member of the
European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU)
13 of MESI’s programmes have won in the All-Russian project “Best
educational programmes for an innovative Russia”
the first Russian institution to successfully undergo external review in
accordance with European standards (ENQA) under public and expert
accreditation
the first Russian institution to join itSMF Russia, an independent international
forum uniting professionals in ITSM from around the world
the 5th rank among top 100 Russian higher education institutions in
economics (according to the Federal Agency for Education)

25. Education in MESI
Preparatory course
Russian language Summer school
Bachelor programs
Master programs
Postgraduate programs
Student exchange

26. MESI in Ratings
Name of rating
MESI's placement
Rating of the top 20 best economic higher educational institutions in Russia (by Expert
RA rating agency, with support from the Oleg Deripaska Volnoe Delo Foundation)
12th place
Rating of higher educational institutions by the Ministry of Education and Science
6th place
Monitoring transparency of higher educational institutions websites for school-leavers
'Leaders' group – 1st place
(The Public Chamber, National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE),
in 2011 and 2012
RIA Novosti)
International rating of websites of education and scientific establishments
3786th place out of 20,744
(Webometrics)
Slon rating. The 10 most profitable Russian MBAs (programmes which lead to the
2nd place
biggest salary increment at the lowest cost of study)
Top 20 Russian higher
YeGE-meter (information system for school-leavers passed the Unified State Exam)
educational institutions
10th out of 30 higher
Forbes.ru. Strongest Russian universities
educational institutions
Rating 'Quality of intake to higher educational institutions 2012'
10th place
KPU (“Kuda poyti uchitsya” (“Where to get an education”)) magazine's rating '50
13th place
institutions for the strongest'
RBC (RosBusinessConsulting) rating 'Which colleges do you consider a source of
15th place
national pride for Russia?'

27. Strategic Partners
Russian Managers
Association (RMA)
The Governments of the Ulyanovsk
region, Yaroslavl Region, Kaliningrad
Region and other
21 SNG
Universities
Russian Federal State
Statistics Service
(Rosstat).
Agency for Strategic
Initiatives (ASI)
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Federal Agency for Tourism,
Ministry for Culture of the
Russian Federation
18 Russian
Universities
Russian and International
Business Companies in Russia,
Commercial banks

28. REGIONAL NETWORK

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ICDE – International Council for Open and Distance Education, NGO in formal consultative
relations with UNESCO
OECD-IMHE – Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education of
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
EUA – European University Association
EADTU – European Association of Distance Teaching Universities
EDEN – European Distance and e-Learning Network
EFQUEL – The European Foundation for Quality in e-Learning
BUP – Baltic University Programme
IMS Global Learning Consortium
AIESEC - l'Association Internationale des Etudiants en Sciences Economique et
Commerciale
ISI – International Statistical Institute (association)
itSMF – IT Service Management Forum
INSOL – International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency & Bankruptcy Professionals
FMA – Financial Management Association International
ЕСВЕ - European Council for Business Education
EURAM - European Academy of Management
CEEMAN – Central and East European Management Development Association
ECLO – European Consortium for the Learning Organizations;
MAPRYAL - International Association of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature

30. Participation in the
International Projects
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2007-2009 ELBEP: Eliminating Language Barriers in European Prisons through Open and Distance Education
Technology
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2008-2009 E-xcellence+: Cross Sectoral Valorisation
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2009-2010 USBM: University Strategies and Business Models for Lifelong Learning in Higher Education
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2009-2012 EQC: Examining Quality Culture in Higher Education Institutions
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2009-2010 Ruukki’s Project Business Training
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2009-2010 OER HE: Open Educational Resources in Higher Education
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2009-2011 SIRUS: Shaping Inclusive and Responsive University Strategies
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2010-2012 MAP-ESG: Mapping the Application and Implementation of the European Standards and Guidelines
for Quality Assurance (ESGS)
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2010-2012 AHELO: Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes
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2010-2012 NetCu - Networked Curricula - Fostering Trans-national Partnerships in Open and Distance
Education and Blended Learning
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2011-2013 E-xcellence NEXT - E-xcellence in National, European and Global Perspective (NEXT)
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2011-2014 ECOMMIS: Two cycle E-Commerce Curricula to Serve Information Society in RU,UA and IL
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2013~ OpenupEd – MOOCs platform
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2013-2015 HOME: Higher education Online: MOOCs the European Way
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2014-2015 eMUNDUS: Fostering International Higher Education Collaboration though ICT and Open Education

31. European university
MOOCs initiative
Partners in 11 countries have joined forces to
launch the first pan-European 'MOOCs'
(Massive Open Online Courses) initiative, with
the support of the European Commission.
Around 40 courses, covering a wide variety of
subjects, will be available free of charge and in
12 different languages.
MESI represents Russia in the Project Higher
education Online: MOOCs the European way Higher education online.

32. The registered user lms.mesi.ru
Country
Number of users
(PT) Portugal
66
(RU) Russia
28
(BG) Bulgaria
26
(ES) Spain
21
(IT) Italy
20
(BR) Brazil
17
(GR) Greece
16
(GB) United Kingdom
15
(DE) Germany
10
(LV) Latvia
8
(RO) Romania
8
(CA) Canada
6
(NL) Netherlands
6
Registered:
349 users
Other countries :
1-5 person

33. OpenupEd – MESI is a partner
On the April of 2013 the
following partners in 11
countries have joined
forces to launch the first
pan-European 'MOOCs'
(Massive Open Online
Courses) initiative, with
the support of the
European Commission.

34. Use of MOOCs at the University
• Integration MOOC coursera.org courses in to the regular courses as additional
learning materials (6 courses in experiment)
• MESI academic staff support (consultations f2f and on-line)
• Communication with foreign students
• English language improvement
• MESI MOOCs development (http://lms.mesi.ru/)
• Languages: Russian and English
• Areas: Economics, Linguistic (Russian), ICT in education
• Example: Course «Fundamentals of Economics»
• 94 enrollments from 13 countries
• 7 active students with very high level of learning results
• Every week new students starts from the 1st module
• Video-lessons, ppt presentation, forum, assignments (essay, cases, tests)

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Collaboration agreements: > 70 institutions
Foreign learners: from 52 countries
Network comprising of a parent institution: 18 branches
located in different parts of the country and abroad
International students: around 7000
Web-based (virtual) course: social network platform +
extra tools
ICTs are widely used: in teaching and learning, research,
managerial and social activities
International students since 1949
Educational programs in cooperation with foreign
partners since 2000

36. Areas for cooperation
• Academic exchanges
• Joint educational programs: double degree
programs, summer/winter schools etc.
• Joint research projects and publications
• Collaborative workshops, seminars, conferences
and other events with joint participation

37. #MESI
www.mesi.ru
Natalia Tikhomirova
Rector, Ph.D, Professor
MESI, Russia
@NTihomirova
NTihomirova@mesi.ru