Aims and activities of the organisation
Baitursynov Kostanay State University (ABKSU) is one of the largest higher educational establishments of Kazakhstan and the leading educational scientific and methodological centre of the Northern part of the country. Strategic aim of A.Baitursynov KSU development is to form unified scientific and educational space of northern region of Kazakhstan that provides its dynamic, continuous and stable social and economic development A.Baitursynov KSU comprises 7 Faculties with 34 Bachelor, 21 Master and 7 PhD programmes. The Foreign Philology department provides education in Foreign Philology (BA, MA) and Translation Studies (BA). The Linguistics Laboratory of the Faculty hosts linguistic and language teaching methodology research conducts associated research and acts as a platform for dissemination of research results. Read more
The Information Technologies Faculty includes 4 Departments (Informatics; Mathematics; Information Systems; Software) and provides education in 4 undergraduate (Mathematics, Informatics, Information systems ; Computer engineering and software) and 2 graduate programmes (Computer engineering and software; Informatics). The Faculty is equipped with the laboratory of computer systems architecture, the laboratory of hardware interfaces and telecommunications, the laboratory of information systems", which have high-tech software for learning practical skills, carrying out scientific research. The department of Informatics has been involved in Computational Linguistics research since 2010.
The research results are reflected in the 3 master's thesis, 2 diploma works of students, 12 publications, including 3 in Scopus journals. Since 2013 the Informatics Department has been involved in the research project "Social service innovation "Audioserver" for people with hearing impairment", the website was created www.surdo.kz and program Daktil.kz. The project development was attended sign language interpreters, linguists, programmers. The department is launch computational linguistics master programme.
The role of KSU in the CLASS project
- Developing an action plan in six month
- Task distribution among the local project team
- Purchasing equipment for administrative and teaching issues in Kazakhstan
- Developing and approving the curriculum of master program
- Teaching and instructing CA academic staff in syntactic, morphological and semantic structure of the English language
- 5 academic staff participation in training on teaching CL with blended learning technology
- 5 academic staff participation in training on development methodologies for NLP tools
- Developing syllabuses and content materials of the course distributed equally among the Kazakh partners
- Developing Open online courses
- Developing NLP tools
- Creating video rollers
- Developing sharing materials, e‐books and methodological books on CL distributed equally among the Kazakh partners
- Reporting to SC
- Regional administrative project management
- Introducing developed master program to other HEIs
- Organizing student enrollment procedure
Operational capacity: Skills and expertise of key staff involved in the project
STAFF MEMBERS
Yelena Kandalina
KSU Team Coordinator
Head of International Relations Office. Lecturer at the Department of Foreign Philology. Coordination of international collaboration of the university; international projects management, development of international collaboration with universities; facilitation of international programs participation; Read more
Fedor Maiyer
Project Member
Coordination of activities of all structural units of the University on actualization, implementation and monitoring of implementation of the strategic development plan of A.Baitursynov KSU taking into account the priorities of the university activities; Read more
Olga Salykova
Project Member
Head of Software Department. Perspective and current planning, organization of the Department. Planning, organization and control of educational work of the Department. Fulfillment of the requirements of the state educational standard of higher professional education in the disciplines of the Department. Read more
Olga Bizhanova
Project Member
Lecturer at the Department of Software. Syllabi development, lecturing in programming, software development, implementation in production. Research interests: Flash Technologies
Z.Satmagambetova
Project Member
Senior lecturer at the Department of Software. Syllabi development, teaching such disciplines as the programming technology, Web-design, programming in Java, system programming. Management of students IT projects in the domain of Web developing. Read more
Saule Zhabyeva
Project Member
Head of Foreign Philology Department. Management of the Department which trains students in two specialities (Bachelor Degree): Foreign Philology (English); Translation Studies (English-Russian-Kazakh); Post-graduate (Master’s) in Foreign Philology, Doctorate degree in Foreign Philology. Read more
Nurlan Medetov
Project Member
Syllabi development, lecturing in nanotechnology in electronics (BA,MA), research advisor of scientific research of Natural Sciences, a member of the academic board and rectorate of the university, and of scientific technical board of Kostanay region administration. Read more