Projects

TOPEILA

Towards precision education: Idiographic learning analytics (TOPEILA)

Academy of Finland

Towards precision education: Idiographic learning analytics (TOPEILA) is an Academy of Finland funded project. project aims to use data from individual students, analyse the data separately and deliver insights or recommendations based on self-data and explainable artificial intelligence. This is a departure from previous methods that collect data from many people and deliver insights according to the norms of “others”. When the data is very specific, it is expected to deliver specific insights, relevant recommendations.

CRETIC

Optimizing Clinical Reasoning in Time-Critical Scenarios: A data-driven multimodal approach (CRETIC)

Academy of Finland Research Fellowship

CRETIC aims to optimize emergency training of healthcare students and trainees. We will develop an innovative gamified platform that combines virtual patients and elements of educational escape rooms to simulate clinical emergencies. Data from multiple sources (physiological sensors, questionnaires and digital logs) will be collected to capture the full breadth of the dynamics of the clinical reasoning process. The data will be analyzed using the latest temporal learning analytics and explainable artificial intelligence methods to map the clinical reasoning process and the factors that lead to successful and effective decision-making. The proposal will result in an open scalable platform that will dramatically improve the training of medical emergencies, offer personalized insights into effective decision-making, provide a safe environment for practicing challenging clinical situations, and ultimately decrease medical errors, one of the leading causes of death worldwide

ISILA

Improving the quality and sustainability of learning using early intervention methods based on learning analytics

Erasmus+

The ISILA project aims to stimulate innovative teaching practices by providing tools for tracking student learning and engagement data and in-time information to teachers, allowing for the customization of intervention methods to the teaching context. This will enable teachers to closely monitor students, preventing them from failing the course or dropping out from the courses. The project will also identify learning patterns based on collected data that can be used for further development of teaching and learning platforms for continuous improvement of intervention methods in different educational environments.

IGLUE

Implementation of game-based learning using escape rooms

Erasmus+

The IGLUE project aims to empower universities to create and conduct pedagogically sound educational escape rooms and promote the widespread adoption of such innovative learning activities across Europe. The project will have an initial pedagogical design phase in which a methodology for designing effective instructional interventions based on educational escape rooms will be defined. On this basis, a virtual platform for creating, conducting and sharing educational escape rooms will be developed and deployed at each participating institution forming an open and decentralized European network dedicated to the creation, sharing and execution of escape rooms. The developed platform will enable the creation of technology-enhanced educational escape rooms through reusable virtual puzzles and will support all the logistics of conducting an escape room whether face-to-face or remotely. In order to provide teachers, not only with the digital tools, but also with the training they need to create their own educational escape rooms, materials and courses will be created and used to train teachers in the use of the developed methodology and platform.

BalticSeaBioMed

BalticSeaBioMed

Nordplus

The BalticSeaBioMed project successfully established a collaborative network in biomedicine among 6 universities: Universities of Eastern Finland, Turku and Åbo Akademi from Finland, University of Southern Denmark, University of Vilnius from Lithuanian, and Karolinska Institutet from Sweden. The project focused on integrating biomedical methodologies into global health research, particularly examining the environmental impact of human health to environment around the Baltic Sea.

Maker@Women-STEM

Equal access to progressive pedagogies to boost STEM development for all women

Erasmus+

The project “Maker@Women-STEM” aims to address the gender gap in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields, particularly in Latin America, where women are underrepresented. ​ Despite the increasing entry rate of women into universities, they face higher dropout rates and lower representation in STEM careers due to discrimination, stereotypes, and lack of support. ​ The project emphasizes the use of Maker education, which focuses on hands-on, project-based learning to empower women with essential skills for success in STEM disciplines. ​ The project includes hands-on, project-based learning, collaboration, and the use of digital tools to foster creativity, problem-solving, and critical thinking among women in STEM fields. ​

ILEDA

Improving online and blended learning with educational data analytics (ILEDA)

Erasmus+ Funded Project

ENVISION

European Network for Virtual lab & Interactive SImulated ONline learning (ENVISION)

Erasmus+ Funded Project

OAHOT

Utilization of learning analytics in the various educational levels for supporting self-regulated learning (OAHOT)

Funding by Business Finland, European Union

BalticSeaBioMed/2023

Funding by Nordplus