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• ITMO Researchers Seek to Improve MOOC Effectiveness

  The concept of MOOC has turned five years old in 2016. In that time 50 million people had successfully completed educational online courses. But the core problem still remains – the low outcome numbers (out of all participants who register for a course, only less than 10 % complete it). What is the reason for this and how can it be solved? ITMO University’s researchers Lyubov Lisitsyna and Evgeniy Efimchik had come up with their own approach to online courses that should increase their efficiency. This June, their paper “Making MOOCs More Effective and Adaptive on Basis of SAT and Game Mechanics” was granted the Best Conference Paper award at the 4th International Conference “Smart Education and e-Learning (SEEL-2017)” that took place in Vilamoura, Portugal. We talked to Lyubov Lisitsyna, head of ITMO University’s Department of Computer Educational Technologies about her research and its success with the conference’s experts.

  11.07.2017

• ITMO University Has Become Partner of the Iversity Educational Platform

  ITMO's first educational course to be published on the largest European educational platform is an introduction to graph theory. For the first time in the university's practice, the course has been published in German. ITMO University has been creating open education projects for several years already. Among the university's partners are the edX worldwide educational platform, the largest international platform Stepik, Russian Open Education platform and the Lectorium project.

  05.07.2017

• ITMO's PhD Students Will Simplify Online Learning On OpenEdX

  Scientists from ITMO's Information Science and Semantic Technologies (ISST) international laboratory and their colleagues from Yandex LLC have introduced semantic technologies and NLP algorithms into OpenEdX's support system. Semantic technologies are commonly used in the field of Big Data to help structure information; for that reason, semantic representation of the educational platform's content can help its users search for the necessary information a lot faster.

  20.06.2017

• Ten Online Courses You Won’t Want to Miss

  ​According to the collaborative report from Coursera, Open Education and Lectorium, by the end of 2016 the number of Russians who take online courses on both Russian and foreign platforms has reached one million — which is twice as much as it was last year. In 2017, experts expect further progress of MOOCs, in both the number of users and the programs' variety; such subjects as Computer science, project management and smart design technologies will remain most popular. Here's a list of 10 online courses by world's leading companies and universities that you surely won't want to miss!

  20.03.2017

• ITMO Launches a New Set of Massive Open Online Courses

  This March, ITMO launches a new set of courses on the Open Education platform. This time, the First Non-Classical University will not limit them to technical disciplines only — the students will get an opportunity to learn about such things as company management and intellectual property law. There will also be courses on AutoCad, Python, and many other useful programs and skills, as well. The overall length of the courses will be 10 weeks.

  09.02.2017

• Studying From the Comfort of Your Own Couch

  The founder of Courseburg (an online marketplace platform), who is also a graduate of ITMO University, Alexander Alkhov, spoke with us about studying online. He believes that while the number of online courses in Russia are still behind MOOCs in other countries, they are actually better in terms of quality. He also talked about which universities in Russia are leading in terms of creating online courses and what are the most popular courses in Russia.

  13.01.2017

• IOT-OPEN.EU — the New Open Course on the Internet of Things

  ITMO in collaboration with four European universities will develop a system of open educational programs on the Internet of Things — IOT-OPEN.EU. Internet of Things is about creating an intelligent network that interlinks and controls different appliances and devices. Piotr Czekalski, IOT-OPEN.EU project's coordinator for the Silesian University of Technology shared on what these courses would be comprised of, who will need them and how can a common person understand what IoT is about?

  18.11.2016