Smart university: global challenges or local tasks?

The article discusses the concept of “Smart Universities”: prerequisites for development, innovative breakthroughs and subsequent results, the change of educational paradigms in society and the impact on industrial and post-industrial societies. The main smart processes taking place at a Smart university are also considered, and the main smart infrastructure for providing activities is described. As a result, e-information and educational environments are considered in the example of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University and MIT OpenCourseWare and edX.