TAZHIGULOVA ALMIRA IZBASAROVNA

Academic degree
• Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, diploma No. 0007687 dated June 30, 2000.
• Associate Professor, diploma No. 0001054 dated May 21, 2009.
• Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, diploma No. 0001052 dated May 28, 2010.
• Academician of the International Academy of Informatization, diploma No. 1411 dated February 15, 2013.
Academician of the Kazakhstan National Academy of Natural Sciences, diploma N 0280 dated May 28, 2010

Additional information
• Grant from the Soros Foundation-Kazakhstan “Electronic textbooks” and publications, trainer certificate (May, 1999, Prague)
• Grant from the Soros Foundation-Kazakhstan “Opportunities and prospects for using the Internet in the Republic of Kazakhstan”, trainer certificate (October 19-21, 1999, Almaty)
• Grant from the Soros Foundation-Kazakhstan “Developing Educational Resources for Digital Media”, trainer’s certificate of successful completion (April-July, 2001);
• Team leader of ADB project equipment inspectors. Report “On the results of testing computer, language, audio-video equipment supplied to schools of the republic as part of the implementation of the Asian Development Bank loan No. 1541/1542: “Basic Education Project” (from May 4 to June 3, 2001, all regions of Kazakhstan);
• Project coordinator: Institute for Information Technologies in Education, UNESCO IITE (Moscow) and RCIO “Distance learning for rural schools of the Republic of Kazakhstan” (WKO, East Kazakhstan region, Pavlodar region) (2001-2004)
• Certificate of successful completion of the basic training course for instructors in the production of e-learning materials. UNESCO project “Distance education using information and communication technologies (ICT) for secondary schools in remote regions of Kazakhstan.” UNESCO Cluster Office in Almaty for Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan (October 19-26, 2004)
• Trainer for the implementation of the Prometheus LMS in the SOO (2003-2006, Moscow);
• Microsoft Office Specialist – official certification (June 2, 2005);
• Multimedia Education Resource Interactive Teacher System trainer. Certificate of participation. (August 2005, Singapore). Acted as a trainer in Kazakhstan in all regions;
• Microsof – School Leadership Training for the 21st Century, trainer certificate (London, January 09-13, 2006);
• 2 monographs, 7 textbooks, 49 scientific articles were published, 175 certificates of state registration of intellectual property on informatization issues were received;
• Member of the candidate dissertation council of the Kazakh University of International Relations and World Languages named after Abylay Khan (from 2001 to 2006);
• Member of the problem council of the Kazakh University of International Relations and World Languages named after Abylai Khan (from 2001 to 2006);
• Republican trainer with the right to teach the population computer literacy, certificate No. 0002 dated June 27, 2007 (MES RK, AIS RK);
• Certificate “Administrator of an automated system of quality management standards” (2007)
• Member of the team of authors of the book “E-Learning Education in the Millennium”, aimed at monitoring e-learning in North Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe, Anadolu University (Turkey, 2009);
• SIVECO Certificate “Project Management, etc.,” No. 4809136 dated October 25, 2012 (Romania, 2012),
• Chairman of the State Examination Committee in the specialties “Informatics” (bachelor’s degree) and “Information systems” (master’s degree) of the Eurasian Technological University (from 2013 to 2017)
Participation in the project
Senior specialist, chief specialist, head of department, trainer;
- Pilot project “Apple-Kazakhstan”, head of department;
- National pilot project of UNESCO IITE “Distance learning for rural schools of the Republic of Kazakhstan”, coordinator;
- Project “Education Management Information System” (EMIS) for the Basic Education project within the framework of the implementation of the Asian Development Bank loan No. 1541/1542, Deputy Director;
- Coordinator of the UNESCO project “Distance education using information and communication technologies (ICT) for secondary schools in remote regions of Kazakhstan”;
- Republican project “Satellite channel for distance learning” (1,100 schools of the republic from 6 regions of the Republic of Kazakhstan are connected to the project), deputy director;
Worked in the development working group:
- “State Program for Informatization of the Secondary Education System of the Republic of Kazakhstan”, member of the working group (1997),
- “State Program for Informatization of Primary and Secondary Vocational Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan”, member of the working group (2000),
- UNESCO IITE Project "Education, Art and ICT: Integration for Personality Development", expert (May, 2004, UNESCO IITE, Moscow)
- Forum of the Central Asian Republics and Kazakhstan under the auspices of UNESCO and UNICEF - member of the working group on EMIS (2005, Dushanbe)
- “State general educational standard of education of the Republic of Kazakhstan – Organization of distance learning”, member of the working group (January, 2006);
- Program “Multiservice Information and Educational Environment (MIE)” (Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Russia) - member of the working group (2006-2007);
- In 2014, she made a presentation at the international Vasiliev Readings in St. Petersburg.
- From 2015 to 2017, she was an Expert of the European project Tempus 544601-TEMPUS-1 - 2013-1 - DE - TEMPUS - SMGR: “Implementation of a quality management system in the field of e-learning in Central Asian universities (QAMEL).”
- Chairman of the State Examination Committee in the specialties “Informatics” (bachelor’s degree) and “Information systems” (master’s degree) of the Eurasian Technological University (from 2013 to 2015);
- Concept of informatization of the education system in the Republic of Kazakhstan 2011-2020;
- Project “E-learning system 2011-2020.”
- European project Tempus 544601-TEMPUS-1-2013-1-DE-TEMPUS-SMGR: “Implementation of a quality management system in the field of e-learning in universities of Central Asia (QAMEL)” (Bishkek, Berlin, Kokshetau, Kostanay, etc.), with 2015-2017;
- Member of the doctoral dissertation council in the specialty 6D011100 - “Informatics” for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at the Eurasian National University named after L. Gumilyov (Astana), (2017-2019);
- Chairman of the State Examination Committee in the specialty “Pedagogy and Psychology” (Master’s degree) at the Kazakh University of International Relations and World Languages named after Abylay Khan (from 2019 to the present)
- Chairman of the State Examination Committee in the specialty “Software and Computer Science” (master’s degree) at the Almaty University of Energy and Communications named after Gumarbek Daukeev (from 2019 to present)
- Chairman of the State Examination Committee in the specialty “Software and Computer Science” of the Almaty Polytechnic College (from 2019 to the present)
- Author, developer of electronic textbooks, multimedia educational programs, digital educational resources (from 2000 to the present);
Awards
• Badge “Honorary Worker of Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan” (October, 2005);
• Honorary badge of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan “For merits in the development of science of the Republic of Kazakhstan” in 2009;
• Anniversary medal “20th anniversary of Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan” (2011).
• Silver medal “Al-Farabi”, 2019.
• Nominated for the IT Europa European IT & Software Excellence Awards 2013 as part of the developers of digital educational resources from JSC National Informatization Center (London)
• Golden jubilee medal MAIN – 25, 2021,
•        And etc.