The research focuses on the initial results of the survey conducted to define the importance and attraction of a case study as a part of E-learning L2 University program course for Bachelor technical students in Russia. The task was included into the course as it considered to be one of the most productive tasks of E-learning educational programs for students offered by internationally recognized universities. The case study includes the problem-based learning, and can be used at any educational stage as an interdisciplinary type of work. Thus, it allows to include the case study into the L2 course to help technical students form and support communicative and professional skills using a foreign language. The necessity and timeliness of such a research work is based on the fact that modern higher education in developed and developing countries has to become resistant to unexpected challenges connected with huge force-majeure evens, like COVID-19 case, dramatically influencing traditionally stable systems.