HSE MOOCs

Free online courses taught by the best HSE lecturers are available on two global educational platforms - Coursera and the National Open Education Platform.

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HSE Online Courses on Coursera

Since 2016, most HSE online courses published on Coursera are offered "on-demand", which means that a learner can join in at any time, as most on-demand courses are re-launched every 4 weeks.

In February 2016, HSE launched 3 Specializations. In October 2017 three more specializations were launched on Coursera:

Financial Instruments for the Private Investor,
Corporate Value Creation,
Data Structures and Algorithms (in partnership with the University of California, San Diego; Yandex),
Introduction to Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science (in partnership with the University of California, San Diego; Yandex),
Advanced Machine Learning (in partnership with Yandex),
Fundamentals of Digital Marketing (in partnership with Google).

Each Specialization comprises the courses (from 4 to 7 courses) and a practice-oriented Capstone Project that allows learners to apply what they’ve learned during the Specialization courses. Capstone Project is only available to those learners who have successfully completed all the courses in the Specialization.

Learners also have an option to get a Course Certificate that confirms a successful completion of the course. In order to obtain such a Course Certificate a learner should pay a certain fee and pass all graded assignments in the course. Coursera offers a Financial Aid to those who cannot afford paying the fee, which has already helped thousands of HSE online course participants.

Coursera. Financial Instruments for the Private Investor Specialization

Course Title	Instructor
Personal Financial Management	Nikolay I. Berzon	every 2 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Investing in Debt Instruments	Andrey I. Stolyarov	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Investing in Shares	Tamara V. Teplova	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Active and Passive Portfolio Investment	Nikolay I. Berzon, Tamara V. Teplova, Andrey I. Stolyarov	every 2 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Infrastructure of the Market, Mechanisms and Technology of Investing	Sergey M. Menshikov	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Capstone Project	Tamara V. Teplova, Andrey I. Stolyarov	every 12 weeks	sessions	‍	‍		●

Coursera. Corporate Value Creation Specialization

Course Title	Instructor
Measuring Corporate Value	Irina V. Ivashkovskaya, Sergey A. Kuzubov, Dmitriy V. Tihomirov	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Capital Structure of the Company	Maria S. Kokoreva	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Investment Projects, Mergers and Acquisitions	Nikita Pirogov, Ilya Partin, Svetlana A. Grigorieva, Ivan Bonchev	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Venture Capital	Ivan I. Rodionov	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Mastering Value Creation	Irina V. Ivashkovskaya	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Capstone Project	Irina V. Ivashkovskaya, Ivan I. Rodionov, Sergey A. Kuzubov, Nikita Pirogov, Ilya Partin, Svetlana A. Grigorieva, Ivan Bonchev, Maria S. Kokoreva	every 12 weeks	sessions	‍	‍		●

Coursera. Data Structures and Algorithms Specialization

Course Title	Instructor
Algorithmic Toolbox	Alexander S. Kulikov, Michael Levin, Neil Rhodes, Pavel Pevzner, Daniel M. Kane	every week	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Data Structures	Alexander S. Kulikov, Michael Levin, Neil Rhodes, Daniel M. Kane	every week	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Algorithms on Graphs	Alexander S. Kulikov, Michael Levin, Neil Rhodes, Daniel M. Kane	every week	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Algorithms on Strings	Alexander S. Kulikov, Michael Levin, Pavel Pevzner	every week	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Advanced Algorithms and Complexity	Alexander S. Kulikov, Michael Levin	every week	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Genome Assembly Programming Challenge	Alexander S. Kulikov, Michael Levin, Neil Rhodes, Pavel Pevzner, Daniel M. Kane	every 2 weeks	sessions	‍	‍		●

Coursera. Introduction to Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science Specialization

Course Title	Instructor
What is a Proof?	Alexander S. Kulikov, Michael Levin, Vladimir Podolskii	every 2 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Combinatorics and Probability	Alexander S. Kulikov, Vladimir Podolskii	every 2 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Introduction to Graph Theory	Alexander S. Kulikov	every 2 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Number Theory and Cryptography	Alexander S. Kulikov, Michael Levin, Vladimir Podolskii	every 2 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Delivery Problem	Alexander S. Kulikov	every 2 weeks	sessions	‍	‍		●

Coursera. Advanced Machine Learning Specialization

Course Title	Instructor
Introduction to Deep Learning	Evgeny Sokolov, Andrei Zimovnov, Alexander Panin, Ekaterina Lobacheva, Nikita Kazeev	every 2 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
How to Win a Data Science Competition: Learn from Top Kagglers	Dmitry Ulyanov, Alexander Guschin, Mikhail Trofimov, Dmitry Altukhov, Marios Michailidis	every 2 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Bayesian Methods for Machine Learning	Daniil Polykovskiy, Alexander Novikov	every 2 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Practical Reinforcement Learning	Pavel Shvechikov, Alexander Panin	April, 2018	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Deep Learning in Computer Vision	Anton Konushin, Alexey Artemov	April, 2017	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Natural Language Processing	Anna Potapenko, Alexey Zobnin, Anna Kozlova, Sergey Yudin, Andrei Zimovnov	every 2 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Addressing Large Hadron Colider Challenges by Machine Learning	Andrei Ustyuzhanin, Mikhail Hushchyn	May, 2018	sessions				●

Coursera. Fundamentals of Digital Marketing Specialization

Course Title	Instructors
Digital Marketing Strategy	Pikunova Elena , Domashenko Valery , Kupriyanova Yana , Kuzminykh Kseniya , Chilikin Mikhail , Kurs Kristina	every 2 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Contextual advertising. Google AdWords	Akimov Ivan, Mozhaeva Anastasiya, Yaroschuk Alexander, Pikunova Elena , Berchenko Yuri, Sidorov Ilya, Dolzhenko Yuri	every 2 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Working with the client database and inbound marketing	Targashin Pavel, Domashenko Valery, Khlyzova Eugeniya, Anischenko Tatyana	every 2 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Capstone Project	Fribus Anastasiya	every 2 weeks	sessions	‍	‍		●

Coursera. Individual Courses

Course Title	Instructor
Introduction to Neuroeconomics: How the Brain Makes Decisions	Vasily Klucharev	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Financial Markets and Institutions	Nikolay I. Berzon	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍ ‍	●	●
Game Theory	Dmitry Dagaev	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Introduction to Machine Learning	Konstantin V. Vorontsov, Evgeny Sokolov	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Introduction to LaTeX	Danil A. Fedorovykh	every 5 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Comparative Politics	Mikhail Ilyin, Mikhail G. Mironyuk	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Introduction to Galois Theory	Ekaterina Amerik	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Econometrics	Boris Demeshev	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Russian Securities Law	Anton S. Selivanovskiy	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Economic Sociology	Vadim V. Radaev	every 2 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Understanding Russian Economy. Problems of Transition	Vladimir N. Zuev	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Macroeconomics	Oleg A. Zamulin	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Economics for Non-Economists	Igor Kim	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
History of Economic Thought	Vladimir S. Avtonomov, Oleg I. Ananyin, Natalia A. Makasheva	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Economics of Transition and Emerging Markets	Marek Dabrowski	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Fundamentals of Corporate Finance	Irina V. Ivashkovskaya, Sergey Stepanov	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Institutional Economics	Maria M. Yudkevich	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Jacobi modular forms: 30 ans après	Valery A. Gritsenko	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Public Economics	Leonid I. Polischuk	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Understanding Russians: Contexts of Intercultural Communication	Mira Bergelson	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
History and Theory of Media	Iliya Kiriya	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Linear Algebra	Irina A. Khovanskaya	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Microeconomics Principles	Konstantin Sonin	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Introduction into General Theory of Relativity	Emil Akhmedov	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Industrial Organization	Svetlana B. Avdasheva	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Algorithmization of Calculation	Elena A. Erokhina	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Saint-Petersburg - the Capital of Empire of Peter I	Evgeniy V. Anisimov Julia G. Trabskaya	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Philosophy of Culture	Alexandr L. Dobrohotov	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Introduction to Formal Concept Analysis	Sergei Obiedkov	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Business Strategies for Emerging Markets	Mikhail Plotnikov	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Introduction to Enumerative Combinatorics	Evgeny Smirnov	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Religions and Society in China	Aleksey A. Maslov	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Fundamentals of philosophy	Victor V. Gorbatov, Kirill K. Martynov, Alexandr Mishura, Anastasiya V. Ugleva	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Towards language universals through lexical semantics: introduction to lexical and semantic typology	Ekaterina V. Rakhilina	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Russian Trademark Law in Global Perspective	Vladislav Starzhenetsky	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Mobile Interaction Design: How to Design Usable Mobile Products and Services	Pavel Manakhov	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Stalin and Stalinism in Russian History	Irina I. Filatova	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Basics of programming on Python	Mikhail Gustokashin	every 2 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Speech etiquette: politeness and communication strategies	Maxim Krongauz	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Communication theory: bridging academia and practice	Maria Mordvinova, Olga Solovyeva	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Introduction to mathematical methods in physics	Yakov Fominov, Mikhail Feigelman, Igor Kolokolov, Igor Burmistrov, Mihail Skvortsov	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Industrial Organization: Strategy and Competition in Business	Kosmas Marinakis	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Cultural and creative industries	Iliya Kiriya	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Methods and means of information protection	Alexander Sorokin	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Information Security Management	Alexander Sorokin	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Psychology of Communication	Olga Gulevich, Irina Bezmenova	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Psychology of intergroup relations	Olga Gulevich	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Understanding International Relations Theory	Timofey Bordachev, Dmitry Suslov	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Introduction to Multilingual and Multucultural Education	Denis Zubalov	every 4 weeks	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Stochastic processes	Vladimir Panov	April, 2018	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Semantics (Moscow semantic school and close theories)	Valentina Apresyan	April, 2018	sessions	‍	‍	●	●

HSE Online Courses on the National Open Education Platform

HSE is one of the 8 founding universities of National Open Education Platform, which was launched in the Fall 2015. Currently, 230 courses produced by the leading Russian universities (MEPhI, UrFU, MSU, MISiS, ITMO, SPSU and SPbPU) are offered on the platform and this number is constantly growing.

Since 2016, all HSE online course participants on the National Open Education Platform have had an opportunity to get a confirmed Course Certificate. This type of Certificate is an quivalent of academic transcript and allows to transfer the earned credits into their home institution degree. It requires passing the final test with a live remote proctoring service (1800 rubles on 2017).

Each course itself presented on the National Open Education Platform is absolutely free for any kind of participants.

Course Title	Instructor
Financial Markets Analysis	Tamara V. Teplova, Sergey M. Menshikov	2 launches per year: September-October and February-March	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Introduction to Art History	Alexandra Staruseva-Persheeva	2 launches per year: September-October and February-March	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Introduction to Corpus Linguistics	Anna I. Levinzon	2 launches per year: September-October and February-March	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Introduction to Modern Political Science	Andrei Y. Melville, Ilya Lokshin	2 launches per year: September-October and February-March	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Demography	Mikhail B. Denisenko	2 launches per year: September-October and February-March	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
History and Theory of Media	Iliya Kiriya	2 launches per year: September-October and February-March	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Cultural Studies	Vitaly Kurennoy	2 launches per year: September-October and February-March	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Macroeconomics	Oleg A. Zamulin	2 launches per year: September-October and February-March	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Marketing	Vera A. Rebiazina, Margarita R. Zobnina	2 launches per year: September-October and February-March	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Marketing Management	Igor V. Lipsits	2 launches per year: September-October and February-March	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
General Sociology	Alexander B. Gofman	2 launches per year: September-October and February-March	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Philosophy	Dmitry M. Nosov, Diana Gasparyan, Alexander V. Marey, Petr V. Rezvykh	2 launches per year: September-October and February-March	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Organisational Behaviour	Evgenia S. Balabanova	2 launches per year: September-October and February-March	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Social Psychology	Olga Gulevich	2 launches per year: September-October and February-March	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Comparative Politics	Mikhail Ilyin, Mikhail G. Mironyuk	2 launches per year: September-October and February-March	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Organisation Theory	Alexey V. Rebrov	2 launches per year: September-October and February-March	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Project Management	Valery M. Anshin	2 launches per year: September-October and February-March	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Financial Economics	Victoria V. Dobrynskayaа	2 launches per year: September-October and February-March	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Econometrics	Boris Demeshev	2 launches per year: September-October and February-March	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Economics	Igor Kim	2 launches per year: September-October and February-March	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Public Economics	Marina Kolosnitsyna	2 launches per year: September-October and February-March	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Economic Sociology	Vadim V. Radaev	2 launches per year: September-October and February-March	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Russian History	Oleg V. Budnitskii, Mikhail Davydov, Igor N. Danilevsky, Alexander B. Kamenskii, Valeriy Kerov, Liudmila Novikova, Oleg V. Khlevnyuk	2 launches per year: September-October and February-March	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Design History	Alexandra Staruseva-Persheeva	2 launches per year: September-October and February-March	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Data Security	Alexander Sorokin	2 launches per year: September-October and February-March	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Main Directions of Labour Protection Development in Modern World	Daria V. Chernyaeva	2 launches per year: September-October and February-March	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Communication Psychology	Olga Gulevich	2 launches per year: September-October and February-March	sessions	‍	‍	●	●
Intergroup Relations Psychology	Olga Gulevich, Irina Bezmenova	2 launches per year: September-October and February-March	sessions	‍	‍	●	●