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LEAD researchers contribute to Wikipedia

We’ve accumulated a lot of knowledge and understanding during the LEAD project and our question is how shall we share it? And the natural answer is to make Wikipedia pages even better for others! We’ve created a new page on … Continue reading

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EdMedia 2014 in Tampere, LEAD is here too

The international EdMedia conference is starting now at Tampere, and the LEAD research group is extreamly visible in the conference. We have our own LEAD Symposium: Design for Learning: Enhancing Participation in Learning through Design Thinking with participants from every LEAD research … Continue reading

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Feeler co-design pilot workshop

As part of Feeler design concept contextual inquiry, a co-design workshop was organized with students of Kyushu University Design School. The intention of the workshop was to explore issues dealing with the use and visualization of Quantified-Self data for improving … Continue reading

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Social shift in MOOCs

Executive summary: Matti has been looking some MOOC related research taking place in UC Berkeley. One emerging theme is adding peer-to-peer interaction into the exercises to support learning. Matti suggests that this might be a weak signal and learning platform … Continue reading

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Education Research in Berkeley

Originally published in my personal blog Science & Industry. Greetings from Berkeley Education Research Day, one day event exploring education research and practice around education. The US education sector is highly different from Finnish context, so not all topics were that relevant … Continue reading

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Richard Stallman to speak at Aalto

We are happy to announce that with our project partner, Eliademy we are organizing an event where Richard Stallman will give a speech about Free Digital Society. The event is free (as in beer) and free (as in speech). Here … Continue reading

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Feeler workshop

As part of the contextual inquiry of Feeler’s prototype design, a participatory workshop was held with MA students of the School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Feeler is a design-in-progress tool for visualizing of learning performance and well-being with the … Continue reading

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Maker Education Initiative anniversary

At the 1-year Maker Education Initiative (MakerEd) anniversary celebration at the Maker Faire on Thursday, Dale Dougherty presented his vision for bringing making back into schools by connecting it to science and technology education through Maker Corps Summer programs and Makerspaces in schools. In … Continue reading

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Reflections on ITK2013

By Kiarii and Eva From 10th to 12th of April, the 2013 Interaktiivinen Tekniikka Koulutuksessa took place in Hämeenlinna. First day was dedicated to several pre-conference workshops such as the researchers meeting, while the other two days were focused on … Continue reading

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Middle school intern Nico at HIIT

In Finland, there is a practice of middle school students doing a short term internship (TET) in work places. We had Nico, a 8th grader visiting us for one week. Nico wrote about his experiences with us: HIITissä työskentely oli … Continue reading

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