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• 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

• ITMO.EduStars Winner Svetlana Kurashova: “To Me, Teaching is a Source of Joy”

  Svetlana Kurashova, a physics lecturer at ITMO University, became interested in this field as a child and worked towards becoming a professional since school. After graduating from Leningrad State University (now St. Petersburg State University), she joined ITMO and has been teaching physics here for 28 years. Last year, she received an ITMO.EduStars award as one of the university’s best lecturers. We asked her what kind of a person a lecturer should be, which Leningrad State University traditions she still cherishes, and how science and arts are related.

  28.01.2022

• 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

• Anton Syutkin On Teaching Philosophy at a Technical University

  In this series, we talk about laureates of ITMO Edu Awards. In 2021, Anton Syutkin, an employee at ITMO’s Institute of International Development and Partnership, became one of the winners of the ITMO.EduStars track. He has been holding seminars in philosophy at ITMO University for five years. We asked him how hard it is to be a lecturer and researcher at the same time, what it’s like to teach philosophy at ITMO, and how this course can be improved.

  14.01.2022

• ITMO Edu Awards 2022: ITMO University’s Award for Achievements in Education

  ITMO University is happy to announce the comeback of the series of events aimed at raising the status of the university’s academic staff and nominating the best lecturers and mentors.

  07.12.2021

• ITMO.EduStars Winner Alexander Mayatin on Combining IT and Education

  Last year, ITMO launched its own award for achievements in education, which was granted to lecturers who apply best practices in their work. ITMO.NEWS talked to Alexander Mayatin, winner of the ITMO.EduStars track of the contest and an associate professor at ITMO’s Information Technologies and Programming Faculty, and asked how it feels to work at an IT university for someone with a PhD in pedagogy, why teaching is different at school and at uni, and what principles guide his own work. 

  26.10.2021

• EduStars Winner Yury Andreev: Lecturers Need to Understand What Their Students Are Interested In

  In continuation of our interview series with winners of the ITMO.EduLeaders contest, we’ve talked to Yury Andreev, deputy dean of ITMO’s Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics, who told us how to better understand one’s students and what kind of feedback he values most.

  08.10.2021

• EduStars Winner Alexander Trifanov on His Career Path and the Importance of Challenging Students

  ITMO.NEWS continues to share the stories of the EduStars winners by presenting the third star of the series – Alexander Trifanov, an associate professor at ITMO’s Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics. In this article, Alexander speaks about his career path and goals, as well as explains why teachers should challenge their students more and why your work should also be your hobby.

  29.09.2021