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• How Course Assessment Influences the Quality of Education

  There are many tools for getting feedback from students, professors, graduates and other participants of the educational process. One of them is assessment. ITMO University conducts more and more surveys, the most highly anticipated are the ones on the quality of teaching in specific subjects. They began with assessment of the core set of disciplines. Two years of collecting feedback on these modules allowed us to understand what should be changed in order to make them better. In this article, the Center for Educational Management and Quality Assurance explains how students’ opinions influence the quality of education.

  22.07.2020

• Participate in Workshops, Courses, and Summer Schools by the Leading Universities at Home

  This summer probably won’t go as planned, however, this doesn’t mean that it will be wasted. Even though some summer schools got canceled, many of them will take place online, becoming more available for everyone. If you’re not the one to give up and miss out on great opportunities, check out our list of 2020 international summer schools: you can apply and participate in them online. This is the first part of the list, only the courses with approaching deadlines are included.

  05.06.2020

• 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

• How to Teach in English: EMI Teacher Training Course for Lecturers of Russian Universities

  ITMO University just completed the results of a 13-week English as a Medium of Instruction Teacher Training professional development course. 15 specialists from different Russian universities took part in the course. For the first 12 weeks, the lecturers studied online: they watched lectures and completed relevant tasks. The last week of the course was devoted to practice and was held at ITMO University. 

  28.01.2020

• Best of Free Coursera Online Courses to Boost Your Knowledge This Winter

  Modern technologies provide you with plenty of opportunities for non-stop learning; be it during your daily commute, classes or your free time, you always have access to a sea of useful information on your specialization. With that in mind, ITMO.NEWS decided to provide some educational entertainment for the cold evenings ahead with exciting lectures by first-class academics from all over the world!

  15.11.2019

• Games and Theory: How Mining Company Employees Learned to Develop Strategies Using Their Own Inventions at ITMO

  Siberian Coal Energy Company (SUEK) and ITMO University have been organizing professional development courses for the company’s employees for five years. This year was an experimental one as an engineering course on the theory of inventive problem solving created by the University’s experts was added to the usual management course. Read on to learn about the educational process, the most memorable moments of the courses and some other changes to the previous curriculum. 

  23.10.2019

• Switching to Kotlin: Books, Courses, and Tips

  In 2018 the Kotlin community, centered around a programming language co-created by ITMO University graduates, grew at an unprecedented pace. This past January, some 1.5 million users have edited their code in Kotlin, which is more than twice compared to last year’s numbers. The amount of knowledge is growing, too, and thus it’s becoming much easier to earn the language. We asked Roman Elizarov, the Team Lead for Kotlin libraries at JetBrains and a tutor at ITMO University’s Information Technologies and Programming Faculty, about the best ways to learn Kotlin quickly and efficiently.

  07.02.2019

• Want to Be Successful in Business? Learn to Communicate

  ITMO University’s Technopark and the Future Technologies business accelerator have launched TEAM, an intensive team development course that helps startup managers acquire various soft skills and learn how to establish communications within a team. The course is developed and headed by Egor Deliev, an ITMO graduate and former head of AIESEC’s St. Petersburg office. Now that the program has begun its pilot run, Egor spoke to ITMO.NEWS about what surprised him in working with startups, why teambuilding is trendy and what makes communication inside teams so vital.

  28.09.2018

• How Do Russian MOOC Platforms Compete With World Top MOOC Providers? Courseburg Investigates

  Can Russian online learning platforms compete with their popular international counterparts? How many users leave online learning platforms annually? And why is there such a low level of participation in digital education amongst Russians? Analysts of the Courseburg Russian online learning platform explored these questions in their latest study, which breaks down data gained from five biggest online learning platforms. 

  16.07.2018

• ITMO University Online Courses You Can't Miss

  Online learning is becoming increasingly popular today. However, many specific subjects like Plasmonics or Statistical Methods in Innovation Management can’t be found online. This semester, ITMO University is launching three new online-courses on the Open Education Platform and the edX platform.

  19.04.2018