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the organizers of IFTE told about how the work of the International Forum on Teacher Education, which has become a kind of scientific bridge between Russian and foreign scientists in the study of the problems of teacher training and the exchange of best practices, will proceed.
Taking into account the growing interest in the Forum (the VII International Forum on Teacher Education gathered more than 1,500 scientists representing 210 Russian and foreign universities) and gradually adapting to the conditions of the pandemic, it was decided to hold IFTE-2021 in a mixed format. More than 600 participants declared their desire to take personal part in the scientific events of the Forum.
“This is a serious challenge for us, since many meetings of symposia, sections, research groups will be simultaneously held in online, offline and hybrid formats,” explained Aydar Kalimullin, co-chairman of IFTE, director of the Institute of Psychology and Education at Kazan Federal University. - Virtual communication will be established on the Microsoft Teams platform. The Forum was supported by several Russian and international scientific organizations and associations.
The preamble of IFTE-2021 will be the 1st Conference of Young Educational Researchers, which will be held on May 25. The main program of the Forum starts on May 26 with the IFTE-2021 Opening Ceremony and performances of key speakers at the Unix University Concert and Cultural Complex, which can accommodate 1200 people. All sanitary and hygienic precautions and a safe distance will be created for the participants. The opening ceremony will be broadcasted in real time and then posted on the Forum website.
All subsequent events of the three days of the Forum will be held in the buildings of the largest KFU institutes that implement teacher training programs: the Institute of Psychology and Education and the Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication. The key speakers of the Forum, represented by the world's leading researchers in education, will traditionally speak from 9 to 11 o'clock. Further, during the day, meetings of numerous symposia, sections, round tables, research groups will be held in parallel. In just three days, more than 200 such meetings are to be organized. The program is built taking into account the time difference for different continents of the world.
The heart of the IFTE will be the Forum's Science Sites Management Center, where all sessions will be broadcast on several screens. They will be monitored by engineers who are ready to solve any technical problems that arise during the broadcast. At the meetings of scientific sections, symposia, round tables, research groups, in addition to academic moderators and discussion participants, technical moderators will work. This will require the labor of dozens of KFU engineers, Microsoft and IT volunteers.
The mixed format of the Forum involves the implementation of face-to-face, virtual and hybrid sessions. A number of special sessions dedicated to the presentation of scientific research of Russian and foreign universities will be held virtually from the platforms of the presented educational institutions, for example, from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Vladivostok, Rochester, El Paso, Alma-Ata, etc.
The operation of hybrid sessions assumes that some of the participants will be present in the KFU classrooms, and the other part will join them through the Microsoft Teams platform. Audio and video equipment installed in each classroom will create full-fledged conditions for scientific communication, regardless of where the participants will be.
The Forum will involve dozens of classrooms equipped with modern computer and video equipment. Additionally, during offline Forum days, participants will be able to use individual booths and work computers, where they can connect to any virtual meeting. There will be more than 200 such specially equipped places.