KazNRTU teachers study new technologies at Churchill College, Cambridge
KazNRTU employees received advanced training courses at Churchill College of the Cambridge University from July 1 to July 16, 2017. There was High Performance computing and Bespoke Intensive Language Teaching Program.
The High Performance computing internship program focused on working with cloud platforms, a modern tool that allows scientific experiments with models based on a large amount of data about real objects. Teachers were acquainted with the latest methods of data processing, management and visualization for Business Intelligence, Smart Traffic Control, Air Traffic Control on examples of the London railway network and Stansted airport. They spend a lot of time on researching data and predictive analytic tasks using the Azure ML machine-learning platform (also known as the Passau project).
Cambridge University is one of the oldest educational institutions in the world, celebrating its 800th anniversary. More than 10 thousand students and 5 thousand post-graduate students from 80 countries of the world study at the university.
Churchill College, in which our teachers passed the internship, was found as an analog of the American Massachusetts Institute of Technology and now become one of the world's strongest technical colleges. Teachers of KazNRTU received invaluable experience there, which they already implemented in their daily work. Aigul Sarenova, the director of the Institute of Basic Education, said about the trip:
“I was a second time in Cambridge. This time I study an individual program, aimed at introducing new approaches in teaching languages. I worked with Annie King, former director of the Cambridge University Language Center, one of the first teachers who introduced a new integrated form of teaching foreign languages in Cambridge. It called blended learning because it consists of classroom activities and online learning. Together with Annie, we developed a phased plan for introducing this technology in KazNRTU. We will prepare materials for it during the semester and then our students will learn foreign languages based on this technology”.
