The presentation of the program for students digital economy aptitude testing will be one of the main events at the largest Siberian conference on new educational technologies.The program will be available for downloading to mobile phones from Google Play or App Store in June 2019.
Tomsk will host "EdCrunch", the largest international conference on new educational technologies in Siberia on 29 - 31 May. The experts and practitioners in the field of education will discuss the effectiveness of advanced educational technologies, their correlation with the psychological characteristics of the new generation and the new technological revolution. The " Future Professionals for the Digital Economy" project will be presented at the conference on May 31within a particular event entitled "The Account of Creating an Intellectual IT-platform for Students Professional Self-Identification". The project manager Sergey Chernyshov (PhD in History, Senior Lecturer, Sociology and Mass Communications Department, NSTU NETI) will present the smart platform for vocational guidance of secondary school and college students in the field of digital economy developed in Novosibirsk.
The platform is based on the digital economy competence matrix for Novosibirsk Oblast proposed at the experts brainstorming meetings. The testing algorithm and the platform itself are developed at Automation and Computer Science Faculty, NSTU NETI. The aim of the program is to build an individual educational path in the field of Novosibirsk Oblast digital economy with its regional peculiarities. As a result of testing, every one will receive their maps of competencies and individual educational paths. If the competencies level is insufficient, a student receives a list of recommendations and activities that facilitate achieving the required level. As a result of testing, secondary school and college students are offered individual educational paths in the "Sampling Space", a system of 60 interactive activities at Novosibirsk universities and innovative companies.
At the moment, the system has tested more than 3 thousand students from 40 schools of Novosibirsk Oblast. The platform adapts for specific tasks and allows analyzing educational progress as well as building individual educational paths for students. The platform will appear as an application for smartphones in June 2019 and each student can download it from Google Play or App Store. Now the online test can be taken at digitalnsk.ru
The project "Future Professionals for the Digital Economy" is implemented by "SMART Concept" Association and the Ministry of Education of the Novosibirsk Oblast with support of Presidential Grants Fund and the leading Novosibirsk universities (Novosibirsk State University of Economics and Management, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk State Technical University, Siberian State University of Telecommunications and Information Sciences, Novosibirsk State University of Architecture, Design and Arts).
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"#EdCrunch Tomsk" is the Siberian branch of "EdCrunch", one of the largest conferences in Europe in the field of new educational technologies in secondary, higher and vocational education. The key idea of "#EdCrunch Tomsk" is to discuss the effectiveness of advanced educational technologies, their correlation with the new generation psychological characteristics and the new technological revolution.