In December 2018, Head of the Department of Economics and Management I.V. Ivanovskaya completed a continuing professional development training course at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. The training program was extensive and dealt with studying the experience of organizing the educational process of bachelor’s and master’s degree programs and the content of bachelor’s and master’s degree educational programs of the Higher School of Cyber Physical Systems and Control; organizing educational activities using e-learning and distance learning technologies, creating and using massive open online courses on the openedu.ru platform, organizing research activities, etc. This information will be useful for improving the quality of training and modernization of the educational process in accordance with modern requirements.