Siberian Federal University

The XVII-th International Education Fair was held from March, 4 till March, 6, 2009 in the International Exhibition Center «ITE Siberian Fair» (Novosibirsk-City). The Event was devoted to instructional media, equipment, materials; training methods and technologies; innovative concepts and experience.

More than 250 educational institutions from Russia, Switzerland, Estonia and Thailand participated in the XVII-th International Education Fair. The main goal of Russian participants was the ultimate presentation of opportunities related to getting qualitative education in the Russian Federation which maintains world standards.

Educational institutions and creative teams presented technologies of modern education, methodical elaboration and also innovations in material basis, laboratory equipment and those products which are necessary for organization of education process. The programme of the Fair comprised conferences, seminars, round-table discussions, workshops, consultations, presentations and performances of creative teams.

The Major Event of the Fair was a competition called «The Gold Medal of «ITE Siberian Fair». The main goal of the competition was to mark the best goods and technologies, help producers to hold competitive positions and establish positive company image on the market.

The information about SibFU educational programmes, teaching materials of the subjects in bookish and electronic form, the selected study guides which have the facsimile signature of EMA profile, the monographs and editions of the SibFU scientific journals and also the samples of laboratory equipment were represented in the exhibition booth of Siberian Federal University.

The scientific education projects in the field of education quality improvement were the remarkable exhibition units of Siberian Federal University. They were as follows:

1. The technology of development and introduction of teaching materials of the innovative subjects related to the multilevel education system into education process.
2. Complex of laboratory equipment (dial-in hardware-software complexes: «Electronics», «Data Receiver and Signal Processor», «Audio Amplification Chain», «Circuitry of Analog Electronic Device», «The Foundations of the Circuit Theory», «Circuitry of Digital Electronic Device», «Industrial Drive «Siemens», etc.) which functions on the basis of line-operated research and training multiple-access center based on Web-portal.

Due to presentation of the projects in the exhibition booth of Siberian Federal University and projects’ defense for organizing committee of the competition «The Gold Medal of «ITE Siberian Fair», both projects were awarded with the great and the little gold medals verified by diplomas for quality and systems approach to elaboration (in nominations: «Multilevel education system as a way of increasing quality of higher education» and «Educational and laboratorial equipment, game machines» respectively).
The exhibition of Siberian Federal University was represented by K.N. Zakhar’in, Head of Center of e-learning technologies of Information and Telecommunication Complex, D.Yu. Hudonogov, Programmer of informatization department of block «B» and A.S. Teremov, Head of Printing and Publishing Complex.