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• Creative Technologies: A New Core Course at ITMO University

  In September 2018 ITMO University launched a new core set of disciplines titled ‘Creative Technologies” for first-year Master’s degree students. Based on the experience of leading global universities, the course aims to foster the students’ creative thinking and abilities and consists of online classes involving top creative figures from Russia and abroad. The program was developed by ITMO University’s lighting design experts Natalya Bystryantseva, Ilia Smilga, and Elena Lekus. In an interview with ITMO.NEWS, the course’s authors shared some insights into the new university-wide initiative.

  28.12.2018

• Entrepreneurial Culture: A Look Into the New General Course at ITMO

  The past semester at ITMO University was marked by the introduction of a new set of core disciplines called Entrepreneurial Culture. As part of the initiative, 1,800 out of all 2,500 first-year Master’s students attended the course “Project Management” taught by 30+ staff members of ITMO’s Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations (FTMI) and the Institute of Entrepreneurship, professional trainers and entrepreneurs.

  26.12.2018

• Techies Tell: Best Podcasts for Data Aficionados

  Are you planning to become an analyst or are already working as one? Do you get a kick out of all things data? Here are six thematic podcasts in English for you to enjoy!

  13.12.2018

• Education Anew: Motivation, Development, and Careers in the Digital Age

  How to set priorities and organize the learning process in the new digital era? By sending tasks via SMS or turning stuffy classrooms into interactive spaces? Marina Kazantseva, a business coach for personal effectiveness, and Maria Ososkova, an expert on career guidance, addressed the current issues of today's education in an interview for Megabyte Media.

  06.12.2018

• MELScience Founder Gives Lecture on VR in Education

  Vasilii Philippov, founder of MEL Science, spent 11 years building his IT-company, though he’s always dreamt of becoming a scientist. Having sold his business to Yandex, he got the opportunity to make his dream come true. His new company MEL Science sells chemistry science kits for children that can be used to conduct safe chemical experiments at home. In just four years, the startup attracted over four million dollars in investments and entered the American market. Apart from science kits, the company also develops full-fledged chemistry lessons in VR. During an open lecture at the SCAMT Laboratory, Mr. Philippov spoke about the issues related to using VR in education, and ways of solving them. ITMO.NEWS publishes the highlights of this talk.

  03.09.2018

• ITMO and Rostelecom Support Technological Startups

  Rostelecom and ITMO University have signed a cooperation agreement on joint acceleration programs and technological startups development. Together, the company and the university will launch several acceleration programs, as well as other educational events aimed at supporting Russian scientific organizations and industrial enterprises that specialize in information and communication technologies, cutting-edge products for all sectors of the economy, as well as software and hardware-software systems.

  28.08.2018

• ITMO.EXPERT Project Lets Educators Share Digital Teaching Experience

  ITMO University has launched the ITMO. EXPERT  project, aimed at helping teachers use digital technology in their work and make the educational process more effective. Some of ITMO’s academic staff have already taken part in three courses so far: digital tools, teamwork, and game technology in education.

  24.04.2018

• More than ESP: Teaching English with Digital and Print Content

  Research shows that the English language education industry continues to grow worldwide, and demand for training will keep growing. Yet today, the usual “teacher – student” process is joined by a third party – digital technologies. Duncan Christelow, business development manager at Cambridge University Press, who came to ITMO University for the second international conference More than ESP: Empowering Students to Progress, explains how the right combination of digital and print content can facilitate effective learning of the English language.

  10.04.2018

• Dean of Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics Anton Pyrkin Named “Professor of the Year”

  Last Monday the awards ceremony for the “Professor of the Year” award in natural science was held. The award is given out by the Russian Professor Council and St. Petersburg State University. Anton Pyrkin, Dean of ITMO’s Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics was this year’s winner of the title. As an ITMO graduate, he had worked in the industry before returning to his alma mater to work in academia. He spoke to ITMO.NEWS about robotics in the early 2000’s, how science can be more exciting than business and what modern education should teach about technology.

  30.03.2018

• SCAMT Member on New Approaches to Chemical Education

  Chemistry, physics, biology - these are the subjects that most students study through rote learning; only  few  of them actually develop a meaningful understanding of the general concepts and processes. Still, the problem here is not that some do have the aptitude for learning natural sciences and some don’t; it is more about the educational approaches used at most schools and universities. Mikhail Kurushkin, a new lecturer at ITMO’s Research and Educational Center of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, believes that we can and must change them. Mr. Kurushkin has developed interactive educational methods that are based on games,  schematic  representation of information, active communication and VR technologies. In an interview for ITMO.NEWS, he shared  about  his idea of a perfect educational process, and of how a proper approach to education can help master any field of science.

  14.03.2018