New Approach in Design of a Hybrid Course for the Personnel Reserve Training for Intelligent Enterprises

The article describes a new approach to creating a hybrid online course “Building an intelligent enterprise based on SAP S/4HANA”, which formed the basis of the program “SAP S/4HANA Academy”, designed to train the personnel reserve for the SAP partners and clients−SAP ecosystem in the CIS region. The training was conducted among undergraduate and graduate students of Russian and CIS universities. The new course design is considered in comparison with similar courses previously conducted by the SPbPU SAP Academic Competence Centre (SAP ACC SPbPU), the experience of which was taken into account and revised. The course structure, its theoretical and practical components are described in details, the course landscape and the tools used in its implementation are described as well. Separately, the aspects that are traditionally difficult while conducting mass online courses are considered: technical implementation of practical assignments, individual organisational and technical support for students. The summary of the authors’ experience presented in the article can be useful in the preparation and implementation of hybrid online courses of various directions.