The doctoral dissertation of Veruschka Pelser-Carstens entitled “Developing a serious game framework for educational tabletop games with digital elements” will be examined at the Faculty of Science and Forestry, Auditorium AU100, Aurora Building,  Joensuu Campus, on Friday, 17th of May 2022 at 12:00 (UTC+3). The opponent in the public examination will be Associate Prof. Teemu […]

You are warmly invited to our next research seminar on Thursday, June 2, 13:15 Helsinki time (UTC+3). Schedule 13:15 – 13:45, Veruschka Pelser-Carstens, Practice for the candidate’s introductory lecture, lectio praecursoria 13:45 – 14:15, Ismaila Sanusi, Studying Middle Schoolers’ Learning of Artificial Intelligence in an Afterschool Program 14:15 – 14:30, Wrap-up, general discussion, announcements etc.’ […]

Dr. Mohammed Saqr from the Technologies for Learning and Development research group has received the highly competed Postdoctoral Researcher funding from the Academy of Finland. The Postdoctoral Researcher funding covers the researcher’s salary and the project’s research costs. Title of the Postdoctoral Researcher project: Towards precision education: Idiographic learning analytics (TOPEILA) Funding period: September 1, […]

You are warmly invited to our next research seminar on Tuesday, April 12, 13:15 Helsinki time (UTC+3). Schedule 13:15 – 13:45, Friday Agbo, Co-designing a smart learning environment to facilitate computational thinking education in the Nigerian context Practice for the introductory lecture, Lectio praecursoria, held in the public examination of a doctoral dissertation 13:45 – […]

You are warmly invited to our monthly research seminar on Monday, January 31, 13:15 Helsinki time (UTC+2) Tentative schedule 13:15 – 13:45, Rhythm Bathia, From big data to person-based learning analytics: exploring the opportunities and challenges In variable centered analysis, the focus is on the “average” learning pattern that ignores the unobserved heterogeneity between learners which […]

You are warmly invited to our monthly research seminar on Tuesday, November 30, 13:00 Helsinki time (GMT+2) Schedule: 13:00 – 13:45, Henrik Hansson, CEO/Professor, SciMind AB/Stockholm University Doing more, better, and faster How to accelerate sustainability work within existing resources How to increase exam work by 1 000%, and at the same time increase quality […]

You are warmly invited to our monthly research seminar on Tuesday, October 12, 13:15 Helsinki time (GMT+3) Schedule: 13:15 – 13:45, Nacir Bouali, Text-to-VR Systems: Challenges and Opportunities for Education 13:45 – 14:15, Michael Yingbull, Beginning an Inquiry – Beyond Just Clicks, Learning Analytics Beyond the LMS If you are interested in joining the seminar, please contact […]

The doctoral dissertation of MSc Rosalina Babo, entitled Improving individual and collaborative E-assessment through multiple-choice questions and WebAVALIA – a new e-assessment strategy implemented at a Portuguese university will be examined at the Faculty of Science and Forestry on the 24th of September, 2021 at 12:00 (GMT+3) online. The opponent in the public examination will […]