Specific features of organizing students’ autonomous work and the usage of modern information technologies are closely interrelated and mutually supportive. The given research is focused on testing the developed e-learning course of the lexicography discipline and identifying its potential and effectiveness in the formation of students’ offline skills. The fourth-year students of the branch of the Department of Philology in Kazan Federal University were taken as the experimental base of the given research. The analysis of pedagogical experiment results confirmed that forming offline learning skills is possible with the introduction of the developed e-learning course and implementation of pedagogical conditions necessary for its successful functioning. During the experimental work, there were used research methods such as monitoring students' activities, testing, statistical and mathematical processing, analysis and interpretation of the results. Thus, it is concluded that using the e-learning course for forming offline learning skills and following necessary pedagogical conditions have a positive effect on offline skills formation for students majoring in languages.