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  • Games for Lectures: Introducing IdenTrack, ITMO’s New Educational Platform

    IdenTrack is a new educational platform that helps students get into research, write scientific papers, present their ideas, and build their individual learning tracks. Unlike conventional online courses, the platform is structured like a game where students experience life-like situations guided by virtual mentors. By now, over 1,000 students have already taken courses on the platform – with over 80% of them completing their tracks. Read on to learn more about the platform and the minds behind it.

    26.04.2024

  • ITMO.OPEN: New Practices for Higher Education in Russia

    ITMO.OPEN: Educational Practices is a two-day offline event for employees of Russian universities who are looking for tools, ideas, and inspiration for the transformation of education. The participants will discuss trends in education and learn more about ITMO University’s approaches to the design of educational programs and standards.

    22.04.2021

  • ITMO Hosts EduLeaders Best Educational Projects Contest Final

    The ITMO.EduLeaders contest is part of the university’s award for achievement in higher education. The award is meant to identify and support original educational projects, new tools and formats of teacher-student interaction. Each winner will receive 250,000 rubles prize money.  

    05.04.2021

  • 10 Free Live Quiz Tools for the Classroom

    Whether you’re teaching online or in-person, you might be wondering if your students are keeping up. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a barometer showing how well each student understands you? Young people are rarely seen without phones these days and you can use it to your advantage. These 10 tools will help you check how your students are managing throughout a live class.

    09.03.2021

  • Battleships and Electrons: ITMO Student Develops a VR Game for Chemistry Students

    The game gives players a chance to act as captains of space fleets and destroy all enemy ships. But to figure out the coordinates of the ships, they will have to remember the quantum numbers that describe the electrons in an atom.

    09.10.2020

  • Two ITMO University Lecturers Receive Potanin Foundation Grant

    The Vladimir Potanin Foundation grant contest for university lecturers has concluded its 2020 run. A total of 747 representatives of 75 leading Russian universities took part in the selection. The grant was awarded to 100 successful candidates, two of whom are from ITMO University. More on the projects and educational programs the ITMO specialists received the grant for – in this article by ITMO.NEWS.

    27.03.2020

  • Results of ITMO.EXPERT Project for ITMO Lecturers

    The second season of the ITMO.EXPERT project has recently ended at ITMO University. The project brought together some 145 ITMO educators and featured a series of workshops dedicated to the use of modern technologies in education. 

    03.07.2019