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• 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

• EduStars Winner Valeria Limonova: Every Student Can Be Seen As a Whole Universe

  In another interview of the ITMO.EduLeaders series, we talked to Valeria Limonova, a lecturer in soft skills, about the ways a humanities student can fit in with physicists, how to cope with the impostor syndrome, and the need to always prepare for public speeches. 

  01.09.2021

• ITMO.EXPERT Project Wrap Up: Portrait of a Modern Educator

  June 24 marked the conclusion of another year of the ITMO.Expert educational project for professional development and exchange of ideas and practices between ITMO University lecturers.

  29.06.2021

• ITMO.EduLeaders Winners: Yulia Romanenko on Her Career Path, Soft Skills Course, and Competition

  ITMO.NEWS continues to share the stories of the ITMO.EduLeaders winners and presents Yulia Romanenko, a soft skills lecturer. In this interview, Yulia spoke about why she left a large retail company for the university, how she balances her family and work life, and why soft skills are essential for students of all specializations.

  17.06.2021

• 10 Free Live Quiz Tools for the Classroom

  Whether you’re teaching online or in-person, you might be wondering if your students are keeping up. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a barometer showing how well each student understands you? Young people are rarely seen without phones these days and you can use it to your advantage. These 10 tools will help you check how your students are managing throughout a live class.

  09.03.2021