Topics for roundtable discussions

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19 TH

09.30. KEYNOTE ROUNDTABLE: INNOVATIONS IN CURRICULUM DESIGN (CHAIR: YULIA LEZHNINA)

Embedding Data Culture into the Curriculum
How to Develop Entrepreneurial Skills in Students? And how to help mobility students benefit from this?
Project - and Practice-Based Learning: how to make sure mobility students do not fall off the wagon?
Developing Students’ Soft Skills: looking into the curriculum and beyond it

11.30. PARALLEL ROUNDTABLE I: MOBILITY EXPERIENCE AND STUDENTS’ EMPLOYABILITY (CO-CHAIRS: YULIA GRINKEVICH, PAVEL ZDOROVTSEV)

Outgoing mobility – how to use it to boost students’ employability?
Internship placements for incoming mobility students
The art of storytelling: how to help students tell their mobility experience for different purposes

11.30. PARALLEL ROUNDTABLE II: BUILDING STRONGER RELATIONS: THE ROLE OF ON-SITE OFFICES IN PARTNER COUNTRIES AND UNIVERSITIES (CHAIR: MARINA BATALINA)

Place and importance of international on-site representation in the university strategy
Variety of university’s forms of global presence
Achieving particular university’s strategic goals with the help of on-site representation activities – approaches and examples
Reinforcing partner relations through developing bi-lateral representative offices - opportunities and advantages, challenges and risks

THURSDAY, JUNE 20TH

9.30. KEYNOTE ROUNDTABLE: ONLINE LEARNING (CHAIR: ANNA ZAVALEY)

Individual learning trajectory and learning organizations: opportunities for co-operation and barriers.
Approaches to estimating the efficiency of investments in eLearning
Measurement of learning effectiveness and analysis of digital tag
Advantages and challenges of using gamification techniques in eLearning
Discussing the ways of students retention and increasing their academic performance in online courses

11.30. PARALLEL ROUNDTABLE I: EVALUATING MOBILITY AGREEMENTS (CHAIR: SOFIA SADYKOVA, LIDIA L. GRIBANOVA)

How to select partners for new mobility agreements effectively?
Monitoring and evaluating mobility agreements: what to look at?
Tools for pre-screening partners and for evaluating existing agreements

11.30. PARALLEL ROUNDTABLE II: SUPPORTING INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO TEACHING THROUGH TEACHING EXCHANGE (CHAIR: OKSANA CHERNENKO)

What are the pros and cons of teachers’ exchange?
How to communicate effectively with other universities to make the exchange the best way possible?
How to motivate your faculty for developing Teaching and Learning?
What tools help to support faculty in embracing new approaches to Teaching and Learning?