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• ITMO.EduLeaders Winners: Ekaterina Tyurikova on Her Career Path and Modern Teaching

  ITMO.NEWS presents a new series of publications about the winners of the ITMO.EduLeaders competition where they talk about themselves, their career paths, and the best practices. The first guest of the series is Ekaterina Tyurikova, a lecturer at ITMO’s Faculty of Energy and Ecotechnology, who spoke about her teaching style, attitude towards students, and gaming in education.

  10.06.2021

• SPIEF 2021: ITMO’s Alexandr Kapitonov on Modern Education and Its Future

  Hypothetical trains, ballistic missiles, and social elevators – these were some of the concepts at play during the panel discussion Live and Learn: Educational Trajectories of Young Professionals and Skills of the Future held as part of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF 2021). Among the participants was Alexandr Kapitonov, dean of ITMO University’s Faculty of Infocommunication Technologies. We wrote down the most intriguing snippets, opinions, and learning points of the meeting.

  07.06.2021

• SPIEF 2021: ITMO First Vice Rector Daria Kozlova on New Reality and University of the Future

  Today, on June 4, the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2021 (SPIEF-2021) featured a discussion on innovative educational technologies in the service of business. During the session, ITMO’s First Vice Rector Daria Kozlova spoke about how the pandemic has accelerated the university’s digital transformation and highlighted the benefits of cooperation between different educational platforms.

  04.06.2021

• ITMO Rector Vladimir Vasilyev at SPIEF-2021: Entrepreneurial Education Is All About People

  Today, on June 2, a discussion on the current state and growth trends in Russian entrepreneurial education was held as part of St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2021 (SPIEF-2021). During the session, ITMO University Rector Vladimir Vasilyev expressed his opinion on the qualities an entrepreneur must possess and how higher education can help foster them in students.

  02.06.2021

• ITMO.OPEN: Educational Practices Conference Sheds Light on New Understanding of Uni Administration

  On May 24-25, ITMO University hosted ITMO.OPEN: Educational Practices, a conference for teaching and administrative staff of Russian universities. The participants discussed current trends, challenges, and issues of higher education. One of the event’s roundtable discussions focused on the role of a dean. Heads of ITMO’s structural units shared their experience with modernization, student outreach, and talent search.

  01.06.2021

• Student and Staff: Sofia Antipova Gets the Best of Both Worlds

  In addition to 1,300+ lecturers and professors, ITMO University has more than 3,500 members of administrative staff. They organize classes, provide the university with scientific and office equipment, create digital spaces like ISU and physical spaces like the coworking areas, run the libraries, deal with endless paperwork, and much more. And amongst them are our very own students! Meet one of them: Sofia Antipova, a third-year Bachelor’s student, ecologist, and ITMO staff member.

  27.05.2021

• ITMO.OPEN: Educational Practices – Results of the Conference

  On May 24-25, ITMO University hosted a conference for lecturers and representatives of other universities during which the university’s staff shared their experience of building an innovative educational ecosystem and their colleagues – the best practices in that field. The participants discussed how to attract and hold students’ full attention, make work and studies truly convenient for everyone, employ gamification and personification in education, and work with rating agencies.

  26.05.2021

• Latvian Student on the Challenges of Distance Learning and Closed Borders

  Ksenija Bikova is a third-year bioengineering student at ITMO University. Last May, she went home to Latvia due to the pandemic and has not been able to return to St. Petersburg due to travel restrictions. Ksenija told us what it’s like to be an international student studying remotely full-time.

  20.05.2021

• ITMO Students Take Part in an International Conference on Research in Education

  The International Conference on Research in Education and Science (ICRES) has been organized by the International Society for Technology, Education and Science (ISTES) since 2015 with the support of Iowa State University and Eastern Virginia Medical School.

  04.05.2021

• IT Trends and Pandemic: It’s Your Call Educational Forum by ITMO and SberBank

  The It’s Your Call educational forum, which will be held online on May 11, will feature experts from SberBank, Yandex, and Orbita Capital Partners who will discuss the latest trends in machine learning, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, robotics, and technological entrepreneurship.

  29.04.2021