Training

From June 18 to July 3, 2018, KSU staff participaited in professional training in the field of linguistics, blended learning, natural language processing instruments for the purpose of development and realization of Computer Linguistics master programme. The training was hosted by the University of La Coruna (Spain).

The training was based on the following educational modules: Basics of learning in virtual environment; Linguistics of English for Central Asian universities; Natural language processing; Quality assurance in European higher education.

In the course of the treining, the above mentioned modules were taught in forms of lectures and practical tasks. The training was performed with the use of Moodle platform, which allowed the participants to activate their background knowledge and absorb new information from the lectures and practical tasks. 7 partner universities took part in training. KSU was represented by Ye. Kandalina, head of International Office and Project Coordinator; S. Zhabayeva, Head of Foreign Philology Department; O. Bizhanova, Senior lecturer of Software Department; M. Kulbayeva, Senior lecturer of Practical Linguistics Department. Upon completion of the training, the certificates of attendance were issued. Also, it was decided to organize workshops for KSU staff (72 days in total) to further disseminate the experience gained during the training.

From 14.10.2018 to 20.10.2018, National University of Uzbekistan (Tashkent) hosted coordination meeting of the project partners. The meeting went in accordance with the agenda containing three main sections. In the beginning, the international experience of realization of educational programmes in the field of computer linguistics was considered.

A number of presentations were given on that matter the following participants of the meeting:

Prof. Zigmund Vitulany, Adam Miczkiewich University, Poland;
Pablo Gamallo, Santiago de Compostela University, Spain;
Carlos Gomez, La Coruna University, Spain;
Belinda Maia, Portu University, Portugal;
Diana Rakhimova and Gulmira Madiyeva, Kazakh National University;
Altynbek Sharipbay, Eurasian National University;

In the course of the meeting there were also discussions about development of curriculum of interdisciplinary master programme that is being elaborated within the project framework, and approval of the project realization plan for the period from October 2018 to March 2019. Approval of the final variant of the educational plan on behalf of Kazakhstan was conducted by Ye. Kandalina, project coordinator from KSU.