Dr. Nataliia Valko, PhD of Physics and Mathematic Sciences, Department of Informatics, Software Engineering and Economic Cybernetics, Kherson State University, Kherson, Ukraine

Nataliia Valko, in 2006 earned a PhD degree of Physics and Mathematic Sciences in specialty «Mathematical modeling and numerical methods». She has extensive experience in teachers education via modern teaching technologies, blended learning, STEM-education. Her teaching experience in University is over 20 years. She is one of the organizers of the STEM school of KSU. She has management skills in the field of teacher training, planning educational activities, creating distance learning courses on the Moodle platform. She manages students design work to create models of robotic systems. Effectively applies innovative teaching methods for future teachers of natural-mathematical disciplines using robotics and their preparation for using STEM-technologies in teaching. She actively studies innovative teaching methods, methods of project activity. She has published a number of papers of different kinds (including books, articles in scientific international journals, conference proceedings etc.), is a member of editorial boards of Journal of Information Technologies in Education (ITE).