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Start Your Business and Unleash Your Creativity: New Online Course by ITMO University
Olga Tikhomirova, an associate professor at ITMO’s Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations, has developed an online course “Entrepreneurship in Creative Industries” (in Russian) aimed at helping creative industry representatives to launch their own business and encourage entrepreneurs to use creative solutions in their work. The course kicked off on October 15, but you can still enroll. In this interview, Olga Tikhomirova told ITMO.NEWS about the course and explained why it is important not only for its students but for the creative economy in general.
22.10.2018
How Online Courses Can Benefit Both Students and Universities
Online courses are becoming more and more popular these days, both among students and universities, as they allow universities to broaden their reach, gain international recognition, and make the educational process more personal. That’s why the quality of such courses is so important. Andrey Lyamin, head of the Open Education Department, took part in the international Workshop on Curriculum/Module design, structure and quality assurance and spoke about ITMO University MOOCs (Massive open online courses).
20.04.2018
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
Emerging EdTech: Can AI Change Education
Why is taking online courses usually not so effective; is there such a thing as mosaic thinking - and can AI radically change the age-old system of education? EdTech Space, an online-conference devoted to new technologies in teaching, was held at the Webinar studio yesterday. Participants of the discussion spoke about brain science, AI and new approaches to education. More on how taking into account cognitive characteristics can improve an educational course, whether AI stands a chance to change the entire paradigm of the modern education system founded 1000 years ago - in this ITMO.NEWS material.
29.11.2017
Edcrunch 2017: Prospects of Online Education in Russia
ITMO University is developing a common web-platform for online-courses that will not only provide information on the courses one needs, but also allow the users to keep a personal portfolio. The portal is created as part of the “Modern Digital Educational Environment in Russia” project of the Ministry of Education and Science. Students will have the opportunity to get credits for online education, as well as form individual educational tracks. The prospects of the new project were discussed at the Edcrunch international conference on new educational technologies that took place in Moscow on September 26-27.
09.10.2017
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