The purpose of this research is studying of contemporary trends of blended learning at classical university on the case of Saint-Petersburg State University educational practice. First of them is research of modern university learning environment which is heterogeneous and includes multimedia resources divide to corporate and open resources, books, experience of individuals etc. The second is development of students’ motivation to Life Long Learning. According the authors, factor which integrates aforementioned trends is growth of communication in virtual space. To study the issues of learning application of web resources the authors use theoretical, experimental and empirical methods. The theory based on interdisciplinary approaches namely information sciences, pedagogy, and museum studies in digital humanities context. Theoretical aspects and the hypothesis are verified by experimental data. The empirical part presents ways of pedagogical adaptation the open resources to learning process. The result of presented work can be applied to development of electronic learning environment and learning methods at classical university.