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• ITMO’s New Algorithm Makes Choosing a University Easier

  ITMO has launched ITMO TRACK, a new service that helps prospective students to pick their Bachelor’s program. The algorithm bases its recommendations on the student’s career preferences, desired salary, and the skills they want to learn during their studies. The service uses visual tools to build an individualized four-year study plan, showcasing every subject, class, and exam. The developers hope that this will help future students make a more informed choice in favor of a program that is best suited to meet their goals. Keep reading to find out more on how ITMO TRACK works and how to access the service.

  17.04.2023

• Evidence-Based Education: How Data Improves Learning & Teaching

  If you want learning to be effective, you have to employ some tried and trusted methods – which are researched within evidence-based education. In this article, we look deeper into this field with Dmitry Abbakumov, the head of Center for Psychometrics and Learning Analytics at Yandex Practicum, and experts from ITMO, who talked about evidence-based education at Yandex’s Yet another Conference on Education. 

  12.12.2022

• A Data-Driven University: How Computer Vision Facilitates ITMO’s Academic Processes

  With the start of the new academic year, ITMO University acquired a novel tool to evaluate the quality of the academic process. Now, a computer vision system involving over 200 cameras placed around campus can monitor the load of study rooms and recommend the most convenient study locations to students. The project is developed by the university’s Learning Analytics Center’s partly student-led team. What does the project involve? Discover in this article.

  22.11.2022

• How Learning Analytics Is Helping ITMO Students Design Their Educational Tracks

  Every semester, ITMO University learns more about its students’ academic performance, research work, and extracurricular activities. Using this data, a 10-person team headed by Sviatoslav Oreshin designs useful new services for current and future ITMO students. We decided to find out more about their work and how it benefits the university’s educational system.

  19.11.2020