The article considers the possibility of developing skills of future specialists’ self-education while studying a foreign language in a non-linguistic higher school with information and communication technologies. In addition, the article covers ways of developing self-education skills of students with the help of foreign MOOCs as a new type of their independent work. Results of MOOCs incorporation as a part of the experiment held unveiled students’ increased interest in performing this activity as well as a number of problems faced. In the process of teaching a foreign language, the use of such systems has a special potential in the formation of grammatical and lexical skills.