MOOCs and Vendor Trainings in Academic Curriculum: Yet Another Step towards Global University

Abstract

Blended learning is a modern approach in education that can totally reshape academic environment. Another trend in education is Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) from leading universities or companies, such as Microsoft, Google, Dell Technologies, etc. Also many vendors (hardware and software companies) made its training available for lay public for free through traditional e-learning systems or through some sort of academic partnership with education institutions. Thus it is possible to enrich traditional academic curriculum with experts' output from industry and other academic organizations. In this paper we describe the possibility of creation data science curriculum with such resources that can be considered as another step to creation of global educational partnership that we can call as Global University.