Kersti Toming and David Lamas participated on LLP (ICT) project CoCreat‘s kickoff meeting in Oulu, Finland.
CoCreat is a three year long project which expectedly will lead the way in new solutions for promoting creative collaboration in terms of new and innovative learning models based on social media and mobile technology.
Expected results are:
- Models of how creative collaboration can be structured using notions of collaborative learning
- Promotion of creative collaboration with development of collaborative spaces using mobile technology and social media; and
- Practical and methodological guidelines to support the design and evaluation of creative collaboration.
And foreseen impact is to provide learners with the abilities to:
- Act in dynamic learning situations;
- Exploit technological solutions to support creative collaboration; and
- Solve real-life problems in creative and collaborative ways.
HTK will mainly contribute towards the design, implementation and evaluation of two (out of five) collaborative spaces targeting higher education students.
More details are available here.
Our Centre is a partner in a NordPlus project which aims to organise an intensive course for Masters’ students in Educational Sciences. The course is titled: “Education for GLobal Responsibility and Digital Learning”, it is going to be delivered mainly online in August – October 2009. The course includes a 5-days face-to-face intensive week in Falun, the Campus of the Dalarna University (see the indicative programme below). Masters’ students from Tallinn University can send their applications and EuroPass CV-s to Mart Laanpere (eesnimi.perekonnanimi[at]tlu.ee). Additional information: 6409 355.
Week 34: E-learning. Setting up groups, socializing.
Week 35: E-learning. Group tasks.
Week 36: E-learning. Individual task.
Intensive programme in Falun (week 37):
Sunday September 6 Arrival to Falun
Monday September 7: Theme: “Education for Global Responsibility”
9.45 Welcome to Dalarna University
10-11.00 Introduction to the Course
11-12.00 Help-desk
13.00-14.15 Lecture
14.30-16.00 Seminar
Tuesday September 8: Theme: “Africa Day”
10-17.00 Africa Day
Wednesday September 9: Theme: “Africa Day”
10-17.00 Africa Day
Falun Students: 20.00 Pub-evening at Harrys
(organized by the International Group at the Student union at Dalarna University)
Thursday September 10: Theme: “Learning for Sustainable development”
10-11.30 (Lecture)
12.30-14.00 (Lecture)
14.30-16.00 (Seminar)
17.00 Visit to the Coppermine and the World Heritage Centre (cost: ca 120sek)
(organized by the International Group at the Student union at Dalarna University)
Friday September 11: Theme: “Teacher Education and ICT-learning”
10-11.30 (lecture)
12.30-14.00 (seminar)
14.30-16.00 Concluding seminar
Student activity: 20.00 Student farewell party at the Student Union (organized by the International Group at the Student union at Dalarna University)
Saturday September 12 Departure
Week 40 E-learning. Examination
Center for Educational Technology is now part of Nordic Network of National Centres of Excellence 2008.
NordLearn is a co-operation in research and research training between four universities in the area of learning and (digital) media. The research foci concern both theoretical problems about the consequences of media development for human learning and knowing, and applied issues of how digital resources may be used to support learning activities in schooling, adult training, on-the-job learning etc.
The four core partners are: the Linnaeus Centre for Research on Learning, Interaction and Mediated Communication (LinCS) at the University of Gothenburg (a national CoE), Intermedia at the University of Oslo, Centre for Learning Research at the University of Turku, and the Centre for Educational Technology at Tallinn University. In all, about 30 senior scholars, about 33 post-docs and around 70 Ph. D. students are active in these groups, and the teams represent a broad range of disciplines of significance for the area.
The aim of NordLearn is to co-ordinate research and research training at the four units, and to share technical and human resources.
The ambition is that NordLearn will function as one unit in large-scale international co-operations. NordLearn will offer courses and seminars for researchers and Ph. D. students from other Nordic and international research groups.
Common topics:
The logic of participating and learning in knowledge practices: schooling, science centres and networking in social websites (web 2.0)
Knowing and technologies: representation and mediation of professional knowledge and transformation of professional knowing
The emergence and transformation of mathematical knowing and the role of representational technologies: the intersection between culture and cognition of learning to reason
New conceptions of human competences and their development (collaborative skils, problem solving, reciprocal understanding, using technologies etc.)
