«Digital University:international globalization of teacher education»

On March 1-2, at the Krasnoyarsk State Teachers` Training University named after V. Astafiev (Russia), the International Russian-Kazakhstan (with the participation of representatives from the USA) scientific seminar «Digital University: the International Globalization of Teacher Education» was held.

The two-day seminar was attended by: Rector of the KSTTU named after V.P. Astafiev Valery Kovalevsky (Russia); rector of Abai KazNPU Takir Balykbaev; head of the department «Informatics and informatization of education» of the Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics of Abai KazNPU Yesen Bidaibekov and representatives of this department; director of the Institute of Computational Modeling of the Siberian Branch of the RAS (Novosibirsk) Vladimir Sadovsky; Director of the Institute of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences of Moscow State Pedagogical University Sergey Grigoriev and head of Department of «Informatization of Education» of Moscow State Pedagogical University (Moscow) Vadim Grinshkun; the leadership of the KSTTU named after V. Astafiev.

During the seminar, researchers and leading experts in the field of digitalization of education from Russia, Kazakhstan and the United States, teachers, students and graduate students of universities discussed topical issues of higher education transformation in the context of the challenges and prospects of the information society.

The seminar began with a plenary session held in the conference hall of the Information Center of the Atomic Region (the presentation materials of the plenary reports can be found at the link. Further, the seminar participants were given a tour of the International Scientific Laboratory of the problems of informatization of education and educational technologies organized by associate professors of the basic department of «Informatics and information technologies in education» Dmitry Romanov and Yulia Nikolayeva.

The seminar continued with a block of sectional reports in which researchers in the field of information technology applications in vocational education presented their current results and current trends. The meeting was held by the head of basic department of «Informatics and information technologies in education» of KSTTU named after V.P. Astafiev Nikolai Pak.

On the second day, at the end of the seminar, a round table was organized - «Actual problems of digitalization of higher education», at a meeting of which all those present could express their own opinion on the current trends and challenges facing the digital university; identify reciprocal vectors for collaboration and outline future prospects for collaboration.

The outcome of the seminar was the resolution (available by downloading the attachment). The organizing committee of the seminar expressed its gratitude to all its participants.

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