Stepik
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Stepik (Stepik, until August 2016 — Stepic) is a Russian educational platform and designer of free open online courses and lessons.
Allows any registered user to create interactive training lessons and online courses using videos, texts and a variety of tasks with automatic verification and instant feedback. During the training process, students can have discussions among themselves and ask questions to the teacher on the forum. The main disciplines covered by the courses are programming, mathematics, bioinformatics and biology, economics; the main language of the courses is Russian, there are courses in English. As of 2020, 5 million users are registered on the platform. Target audiences are schoolchildren (mainly courses on preparation for the Unified State Exam), students, novice specialists.
September 2013
The founder is Nikolay Vyakhkhi, who created author's courses in bioinformatics with the support of JetBrains and the Laboratory of Algorithmic Biology of St. Petersburg Academic University. In 2013, an online platform was created on the basis of developments, and in September 2013, the first third-party training programs were released on it.
Among the organizations that have released online courses on the platform are Yandex, JetBrains, Samsung, Mail.ru , a number of universities (including the European University in St. Petersburg, MIPT, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Samara University, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Tomsk State University, Southern Federal University). The Stepik automated task verification system has been used in a number of courses on the Coursera platform, including courses in bioinformatics from the University of California at San Diego and a course on data analysis from the Higher School of Economics.
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