This article examines the issues of mentoring support for management personnel on the example of some foreign countries. The possibility of the influence of mentoring on the increase of the professional competence of the head of the organization is studied. Various forms, methods, models, types, strategies used in foreign practice of mentoring are presented.

The article gives approaches to information education environment designing, which provide education professional managers training of capital educational organizations. The authors describe the principles of information education environment designing and its main components such as information education resources, means of communication and educational technologies (including mentoring).

The article deals with the issues of open resources developments in the frames of training of professional managers in educational sphere. The possibilities of MOOC prospects as distant learning technology for adult further education are studied. Existing foreign and Russian open courses and platforms are analyzed and their characteristics are given.

The review of Russian open online-platforms having the content or courses for training of professional managers including educational sphere is given. The authors underline the task of creating information resources to be able to teach the art of management.