TOMSK, May 3 – RIA Tomsk. The rector of Tomsk State University (TSU) Eduard Galazhinsky became one of the experts of the online-course on universities transformation, started by Moscow School of Management Skolkovo, the press service of the university reported on Wednesday. As it is specified on the website, it is the world's first online course on this topic.
The press service of the university specifies that the "Management of Universities" course will tell listeners what is and how it is possible to change in Russian universities – both at the level of the general strategy, and at the level of individual formats and structural units.
"Within the course I will tell about our experience of transformation of university, which has delicate, but at the same time dynamic character. I was asked to tell about how we take care of our culture, how we reinterpreted our history and on this basis formed policy, what decisions were made and how they were realized", – Galazhinsky is quoted in the message.
The experts were also the president of Arizona State University Michael Crow, professor of Moscow School of Management Skolkovo Andrei Volkov, founding director of the Boston College Center for International Higher Education Philip Altbach, president of American University of Central Asia Andrew Wachtel and others.Everybody can do the course on a paid and free basis. As reported on the website of the school, "Management of Universities" - is the world's first online course on the transformation of universities.