International Projects
EESTEC Online Seminar
Text: Edina Livnjak, Online Seminar Coordinator
Photographs: Online Seminar Team
Online Seminar is relatively young project and
it is still developing. However, from the very
beginning it had huge potential to grow into
something useful and valuable not only for
EESTECers but for everyone all around the
world.
The Online Seminar project provides students
with a new platform for learning. Most students are interested in deepening their knowledge in a specific subject but a big majority of
them finds it difficult to achieve proficiency relying on courses delivered by universities. The
initial idea of our seminars was to familiarize
students effectively with their selected topics
and allow them to interact with practical problems. While listening to lecturer attendees had
an opportunity to ask questions in order to fully comprehend the topic. That way the quality
of the information sharing is being enhanced.
Every Online Seminar has a goal of focusing
on a distinct topic and seminars are delivered
by an expert on the field.
This year Online Seminar Team focused on
contacting potential lecturers for the next
seminars. We wanted to provide our attendees with the best quality lectures about up-todate topics. After talking to Mehmet Sencer
Karadayi from Ankara, Turkey we decided
to make together HTML5 seminar. We were
glad to open the next chapter with this topic
and a new lecturer. Second and third seminars were about Android Development. Our
lecturer for that topic, Konrad Gorski from
Gdansk, Poland, suggested splitting this topic
into two seminars because it was important to
start from beginner’s level and then finish with
more advanced level. In that case anyone,
even without previous knowledge could join
and learn about Android Development. We
accepted that idea and started preparing two
seminars. Seminars about both topics were
very successful and a lot of people watched
it and we got a great feedback from our participants. One of the great things about Online
Seminars is that if you miss one of them, you
can always watch later via EESTEC Youtube
channel.
want to include topics from every part of engineering. Another idea which we plan on implementing is to include soft-skills seminars. We
will do our best to achieve these goals but we
also need your help. The Team is always looking for new lecturers so if you are interested in
sharing your knowledge with other students,
please contact Online Seminar Team.
If you are having doubts about applying for
lecturer’s position, you can read what one of
our lecturers, Konrad Gorski, said about this
project:
„I really enjoyed being part of this year’s Online Seminars. I think it’s a great example of
a modern approach to education. Not only it
points the students to technologies that are
currently trending, but also leverages one of
the biggest benefits of the Web - free access.
We’re living in a global environment and the
physical distance should not be an issue for
education anymore. It is wonderful to see
people inspired by the talks and creating new
things based on the knowledge I tried to convey.“
Edina Livnjak - Online Seminar Team
Coordinator
Success in this year represents a great motivation for the next year. We have various
ideas and plans how to improve this project
and make it a part of every students’ studying
routine. Previous seminars were mostly about
Computer Science topics but in future we
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