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• ITMO.EduStars Winner Natalia Gorlushkina on Teaching and Friendship With Students

  Natalia Gorlushkina comes from a family of professionals in optics: almost all of her relatives studied and worked in this field. She graduated from LIFMO (now ITMO University) and worked at a lab, but then decided to become a lecturer. Having worked for over 30 years in this profession, she taught many generations of students, received several awards, and last year, won ITMO.EduStars. We asked her to share what it was like to change her specialization, how to become friends with students, and why for her, the university feels like home.

  15.03.2022

• ITMO Edu.Stars Winner Anton Starovoytov on Teaching Lab Classes Online

  Anton Starovoytov started teaching as a PhD student. Now he is the vice dean of ITMO’s Faculty of Photonics and a researcher at the university’s International Research and Educational Center for Physics of Nanostructures. He also develops educational projects, such as virtual simulations of physical equipment for lab projects on nonlinear optics, which will make such equipment more accessible. Last year, Anton Starovoytov was named one of the winners of the ITMO.EduStars contest. Read on to learn about organizing online lab projects in optics and how to manage to do everything you’ve planned.

  01.03.2022

• ITMO.EduStars Winner Olga Smirnova: Building a Culture of Error is Beyond Important For Students

  Having her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in philology, Olga Smirnova decided to change things up and get a job at a technical university. 2022 marked the third year since Olga joined ITMO.Family as an English teacher and last year, she was named among the university’s best lecturers. In this article, Olga speaks about the differences between teaching English to students of technical vs humanitarian fields and shares her tips on how to motivate them to study a foreign language.

  22.02.2022

• ITMO.EduStars Winner Anastasia Bulygina on Making Lectures Cooler Than YouTube

  The marketing expert Anastasia Bulygina started teaching when she was a final-year Bachelor’s student in her hometown Lipetsk. Her desire to learn and grow professionally brought her to ITMO’s Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations where she then сontinued her career as a lecturer. Last year, Anastasia became one of the university’s top lecturers and received an award for her achievements in education. In this article, Anastasia speaks about how TikTok videos can help students make successful presentations and explains why games are a great way to connect with your students.

  18.02.2022

• ITMO.EduStars Winner Daria Martynova: Professionals Today Must Be Well-Rounded, Not Narrowly Specialized

  Daria Martynova is an art historian. She earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s from St. Petersburg State University and spent a year in China studying the languages and art of East Asia. Daria currently teaches three courses at ITMO University: Modern and Contemprorary Art, History of Western European and Russian Culture, and Navigating St. Petersburg's Culture. Last year, she won an ITMO.EduStars award as one of the university’s top lecturers. We asked Daria why tech majors should learn art history and how medical humanities can assist healthcare specialists.

  09.02.2022

• ITMO.EduStars Winner Vladimir Mitropov on Key Principles for Teaching

  The physicist Vladimir Mitropov graduated from ITMO with a PhD degree and worked for 20 years at a private company in the industrial refrigeration sector. However, he returned to the university as a lecturer, eventually winning last year’s ITMO.EduStars contest and nabbing an award for achievements in education. We asked him to share why understanding is more important than grades, how the cold helps museums stay moth-free, and what tasks thermodynamics solves nowadays.

  03.02.2022

• ITMO.EduStars Winner Irina Timofeeva on Making Ecology Interesting

  Irina Timofeeva decided to become an ecologist in her school days. Her childhood fascination with the subject led her to receive a Specialist’s degree from St. Petersburg State University and a Master’s at ITMO University. Today, she’s a PhD student at ITMO and teaches students of the university about sustainable development and conscious consumption. Irina is also the co-author of an upcoming book on animals driven to extinction by humans. Last year, she was named as one of the university’s top lecturers according to the ITMO.EduStars contest and received an award for achievements in education. We spoke to Ms. Timofeeva about making ecology exciting to students, the “sixth extinction,” and why we should be preserving what we have instead of bringing back extinct species.

  31.01.2022

• EduStars Winner Andrey Vasilyev on Teaching History to Programmers

  Another ITMO Edu Awards will take place this year at ITMO. Last year, dozens of lecturers from ITMO University who work on their own educational projects and come up with new approaches to teaching became its laureates. Andrey Vasilyev, the winner in the ITMO.EduStars category, teaches history and implements projects at the intersection of humanities and technical sciences. We asked him why STEM students like history, how to find a common ground with them, and where in Russia you can find Ancient Greece.

  27.01.2022

• EduStars Winner Marina Barantseva: Teaching the Way I’d Want to Be Taught

  Marina Barantseva started out as a professional linguist and translator and worked in marketing for ten years before deciding to completely reinvent her life. She followed her childhood dream to become a teacher; for the past three years, she has been teaching English to university students. Last year, she won the ITMO EduStars contest of best academic practices. In this interview, we asked her about the trick to motivating students to attend 8 am classes and the reasons lecturers need to continuously learn something new. 

  20.01.2022

• ITMO.EduStars Winner Daria Chirva: Students Should Be Engaged, Not Forced To Learn

  The ITMO Edu Awards contest is an excellent opportunity for lecturers and mentors to present themselves professionally and win an award for their achievements in education. One of the contest’s winners, Daria Chirva, became the head of ITMO University’s Thinking educational module last year. In this interview, she speaks about what helped her win the award, explains why it’s important to deal with the ethical side of artificial intelligence, and elaborates on what philosophy and paragliding have in common.

  18.01.2022