Elvira Vitausovna Strakhovich

• Senior Researcher, SPIIAS, 1985-1998
• Project/Program Manager In ZAO Motorola, 1996-2009
• IT Project Management Trainer  in  IT-Companies, 2010-2015
• Member of Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (APSCE), 2010-2017
• Member of Project Management Institute (PMI), since 2012
• Member of IEEE Association, since 2012
• Member of Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), since 2016

Papers in Academic & Professional Journals   

• Visual-analytical thinking and mind maps in ontological engineering // Design Ontology, 2020. V. 10. № 1 (35). P. 87-99. (with Gavrilova T.A.)
• Application of the design thinking method in the study of information technology in a business school // Informatics and Cybernetics. Donetsk, DonTU, 2018, 4(14)
• Business models evolution in a context of multi-sited platforms use for micro-enterprises // Upravlenets, 2017, №4(68), с. 53-60 (with Serola L.S., Churakova I.Yu.)
• Blended learning experience in business school // Informatika and education. 2016. № 4 (273)
• Gestalt Principles of Creating Learning Business Ontologies for Knowledge Codification // Knowledge Management Research and Practice, 2015, 13(4) (with I. Leshceva, T. Gavrilova).
• The Usage of Visual Conceptual Models in Teaching // Vestnik (Herald) of St. Petersburg University. Management Series. 2011. Issue 1. P. 124-150 (with I. Leshceva, T. Gavrilova).
• Two-Component Parsing Model and Its Implementation // Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences International. 1997. No. 5. P. 48-52.

Chapters in Books and Collections of Essays

• Design Thinking in Management Education: Case Studies from Lessons // Design Thinking and Innovation in Learning / Ed.: Taricani, E. - Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, 2021. p. 71-82
• Using Smart Education together with Design Thinking: a case of IT product prototyping by students studying management // Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies. / Ed.: Uskov, V. - Springer, Singapore, 2020. Т. 188. p. 245-253
• The use of blended learning in the development of IT competencies of students // Business Management in the Digital Economy: Challenges and Solutions / Ed.: Arenkova I.A., Lesina T.A., Tsenzharik M.K., Chernova E.G.- SPbU, 2019. — 360 p.  P. 305-319
• Project Management Basics. St. Petersburg: GSOM Publishing, 2010, 2011 (with I. Leshceva)
• Information technologies in management: base course. St. Petersburg: GSOM Publishing,  2014. (with K.Zhukova & I.Leshcheva)

Conference Papers

• Usage of Design Thinking for soft skills development // EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2019, Amsterdam, Netherlands: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). C.49-52
• Application of the design thinking method in teaching IT project management // Software engineering: methods and technologies for the development of information and computing systems (PIIVS-2018). II International Scientific and Practical Conference. 2018. p.20-25
• System analysis in design and management // XXI international scientific and practical conference June 29-30, 2017, St. Petersburg, 2017. с. 226-234 (with Gavrilova T.A.)
• How students-managers use design thinking to collect IT-project requirements// 15th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA 2018)
• Students' motivation in blended learning environment: practical experience // E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, 2016 https://www.learntechlib.org/p/174133/
• Evaluating сourse content and student performance via lightweight ontologies // Proceedings of the European Conference on Knowledge Management, ECKM, 2016.
• An experience in the blended learning in the course aimed at the development of IT competence // International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training, ITHET, 2015, Publisher: IEEE, DOI: 10.1109/ITHET.2015.7218019
• Cognitive Aspects of Educational Ontologies Design // New Trends in Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques. Proceedings of the Tenth SoMet_11. IOS Press, 2011 (with T. Gavrilova).
• Ontologies usage in the Course “IT Project Management” // Sustainable Development of Russian Regions: Man & Modernization. Proceeding of the 8th International Research Conference on the Issues of Economic Development in Modern Society. Ekaterinburg, USU Publishing, 2011.
• Ontologies for Project Management Teaching // The 18th International Conference on Computers in Education. Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia, 2010 (with T. Gavrilova, I. Leshceva).
• Ontologies Development for IT Project Risk Management Teaching // Semhe’10: The Second International Workshop on Semantic Web Applications in Higher Education. University of Southampton, Southampton, UK, 2010 (with T. Gavrilova, I. Leshceva).