MOOC pretesting: the importance, the process, and the experience
25.2.2021Authors: Shokoofeh Motamedi,¹ Rashidat George¹, Vesna Belogaska,² and Eila Burns¹| Abstract Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), as the modern version of educational broadcasting in the digital era, have seen overwhelming public approval in recent years. To acquire user satisfaction, during the creation of a new design of MOOC, it is important to consider the usability […]
Success factors and barriers in international education change in higher education: case Global VET course
19.9.2020Authors: Meril Ümarik¹ Meidi Sirk¹, Eila Burns² and Piia Kolho² | Abstract This paper focuses on exploring the transformative educational changes at a university exploiting the implementation of an international course of Global VET as a case example. The aim is to understand what the success factors and barriers in international educational change process are […]
Smartphone as a Learning Tool – An Activity Theory Approach for Learning Marketing Concepts
7.6.2020Authors: Outi Niininen and J. Graham Spickett-Jones | For many people, the smartphone has become ubiquitous- the smartphone has evolved rapidly into an essential instrument for modern life. It has become a commonplace tool that has helped to extend personal horizons beyond immediate physical constrains; it supports a seamlessly blended, hyper-mediated and interconnected sense of […]
Teaching equality in vocational education through a game practice
28.11.2019Experientially and Emotionally Involving Teachers and Students Authors: Jari Karttunen & Anna-Liisa Parkkinen | Introduction In 2019, Finland brought questions of equality and inclusivity to the fore of international conversation. “Equality forms a core value for Finland and its people, and the best symbol of Finnish equality is a personal pronoun from the Finnish language: […]
Connectivism, the pedagogical social fabric and the pipe as a knowledge and skills conductor in the professional identity formation of the student in higher education in the 21st century
2.11.2019Author: Marcella Zoccoli| To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher only a fellow student. -Søren Kierkegaard Abstract This practice paper is based on a previous inedited essay written by the author in early November 2018 during the studies at JAMK Teacher Education College accomplished […]