Education and Global Cities: Smart Learning for World Universities
The Fourth Annual International conference "Education and Global Cities: Smart Learning for World Universities" will bring together experts in learning analytics and educators to discuss new digital challenges that universities face, as well as new tools and techniques that allow answering these challenges.
Today universities and their students generate digital data about learning activities at an enormous scale. From swiping library cards to being engaged in online courses the wide range of activities leave digital footprints that we have to learn to analyze. Universities have an unprecedented task to engage with these data in order to improve learning and general conditions of students’ lives in educational settings.
Learning analytics and educational data mining are new research fields that aim at developing methods of collecting, analyzing and reporting this data to provide insights that can help all the groups involved in building better university education: students, teachers, and administrators. Students expect easy online access to educational resources, and that allows teachers and administrators to track their progress and engagement nearly in real time.
Leading universities strive to create more personalized and more engaging experience for students despite massification and digitalization of education. In fact, it is exactly this digitalization that allows new technologies and techniques to enhance students' educational experience. Innovations that seem to many as disruptive to the very fabric of academic life may turn out to be the solutions to many problems in higher education.
Dmitry Abbakumov
Head of eLearning Office
Daniil A. Alexandrov
Deputy Director, HSE University Saint Petersburg
Saule Bekova
Junior Research Fellow, Institute of Education
Natalia Chicherina
Deputy Director, NRU HSE Saint Petersburg
Dukhanov Alexey
Head of magistracy at ITMO University
Falkov Valery
Rector Of the University of Tyumen
Fati Wu
Dean and Doctoral Supervisor of the School of Educational Technology of Beijing Normal University
Gráinne Conole
Visiting professor Dublin City University, Director of e4innovation
HUANG Ronghuai
Deputy Dean, Faculty of Education of Beijing Normal University
Jelena Jovanovic
Associate professor, Department of software engineering at the University of Belgrade
Sergey M. Kadochnikov
Director NRU Higher School of Economics − Saint-Petersburg
Koksharov Victor
Rector Ural Federal University
Daria Kravchenko
Analyst, eLearning Office, HSE University
Evgenia Kulik
Director eLearning Development Centre, HSE University
Yaroslav Kuzminov
Rector NRU HSE
Ilya Makarov
Deputy Head, School of Data Analysis and Artificial Intelligence
Natalia Maloshonok
Deputy Director, Institute of Education
Mardanov Sergey
Director, University Relations, Mail.Ru Group
Mikko-Jussi Laakso
TUCS GP Supervisor at University of Turku
Ilya Musabirov
Junior Research Fellow
Natekin Aleksey
DM Labs founder
Razinkina Elena
Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Russia
Sergey Roshchin
Vice Rector NRU HSE
Tatiana Semenova
Junior Research Fellow,Centre of Sociology of Higher Education
Alexander Sirotkin
Associate Professor, HSE University Saint Petersburg
Skryabin Maxim
Senior Data Scientist at Stepik
Stephanie Teasley
Research Professor, School of Information at the University of Michigan
Suvorova, Alena
Senior Lecturer, Department of Applied Mathematics and Business Informatics, NRU HSE Saint Petersburg
Tretyakov Vasiliy
Chairman National Platform for Open Education, Director Institute of Open Educational Technologies of Ural Federal University
Vasilyev Vladimir
Rector of ITMO University
Vyakhkhi Nikolay
Co-founder Stepik
ZHANG Jingjing
Associate Professor, School of Educational Technology, Beijing Normal University
ZHENG Qinhua
Associate Professor School of Educational Technology of Beijing Normal University