Characteristics of instructors.. Notes: (i) Only publications in journals indexed by Web of Science and Scopus were included; (ii) Russia has a two-level system of doctoral qualifications. The first level—Candidate of Sciences—is equivalent to PhD or similar degrees. The second level—Doctor of Sciences—is an additional qualification that allows obtaining an academic rank of full professor (similar to “Habilitation” in Germany and other European countries).
| Course | Instructor | Academic degree | Place of graduation | Academic rank | Years of teaching | Publications |
| EM | Instructor A, online | PhD (Habilitation) | Elite university | Professor | 46 | 39 |
| Instructor B, online | PhD (Habilitation) | Elite university | Associate professor | 24 | 20 | |
| Instructor A, U1 | PhD | Non-elite university | Associate professor | 17 | – | |
| Instructor B, U1 | PhD | Non-elite university | Associate professor | 20 | 1 | |
| Instructor A, U2 | PhD | Non-elite university | Associate professor | 35 | 1 | |
| Instructor B, U2 | – | Non-elite university | Senior lecturer | 12 | 5 | |
| CMT | Instructor A, online | PhD | Elite university | Associate professor | 31 | – |
| Instructor B, online | PhD | Elite university | Associate professor | 43 | – | |
| Instructor C, online | PhD | Elite university | Associate professor | 47 | – | |
| Instructor D, online | PhD | Elite university | Associate professor | 51 | – | |
| Instructor A, U3 | – | Non-elite university | Senior lecturer | 11 | – |