Centre for Educational Technology@ the Institute of Informatics,

Tallinn University

The leading R&D centre in Baltic countries

in the field of Technology-Enhanced Learning

CET: the facts and figures

• Established in 1997 at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, since 2005 a R&D unit within the Institute of Informatics

• Budget: 1 MEUR annually, 100% project-based funding• Our staff:

• 17 experienced researchers, international team (Germany, Portugal, Spain)

• Doctoral students from Ghana, Nigeria, Georgia, Poland• Professional software development team

• Mission: top-level R&D centre in the field of technology enhanced learning contributing to educational innovation on the national, regional and global levels

The most frequent keywords from our research papers

R&D projects on open education

Hans Põldoja :: lecturer, PhD student @ Helsinki Aalto Universtiy

R&D projects on open education

LeMill (http://lemill.net) – OER authoring tool and community platform with 42000 members and 73000 resources (2005–2010)

Koolielu (http://www.koolielu.ee) – national educational portal and learning resource repository (2008–2009)

EduFeedr (http://www.edufeedr.net) – an online tool for aggregating open blog-based courses (2009 …)

Other open source learning tools – Web-based learning environments VIKO (2001), IVA (2003), Krihvel (2005), LePress (2010), Dippler (2011), eDidaktikum (2014)

Online assessment tools – TATS, PETS, DigiMina

LeMill

Contributing to European research

Tobias Ley, PhD :: professor of digital ecosystems

Large-scale IP Learning Layers2012-2016, EU FP7, budget 12 mEUR

Basiskarte:  digitale-europakarte.de

Project Coordination

Learning Technology Research

Regional Application Clusters

Scaling Partners

Technology Partners

Health Care – Leeds

Construction & Building – Bremen

Technologies for Informal and Lifelong Learning have an Impact on Innovation in Europe

Building and Construction Industry• Innovative sustainable construction techniques (“Green

Building”) are not taken up in practice

Healthcare Sector• It takes too long until patients are treated according to

new clinical guidelines

Learning Layers supports more systematic sharing of experience and makes available knowledge at the workplace

Straw Building

How To

X3-PVQX3-PJC

X3-POZ PLC Equipment

Technologies Supporting Learning at the Construction Site

Explaining the use of a new construction technique and materials on site

Making video material available on site through QR tags

Use of video recording and annotation

Further questions on the use of the technique connected to site

Material, questions and best practices collected and

discussed

Collection transformed into instructional material to

enhance traditional training

Contributing to educational policy-making in Estonia

Mart Laanpere, PhD :: senior researcher, head of CET

Contributing to educational policy-making in Estonia

• National curricula for primary, secondary and high schools: (1996, 2002, 2010, 2014)

• National strategies for ICT in education (2001, 2005, 2009)• Co-founder of Estonian E-university consortium• Active partner in Estonian Association of IT and

Telecommunication Enterprises• National programme on ICT• National Strategy for Lifelong Learning 2014 – 2020: digital

turn towards 1:1 computing, BYOD model • Competence modeling and assessment in line with EQF• ERA Chair: Educational Innovation thru Technology-

Enhanced Research (2015 – 2020)

University-Industry partnerships: Samsung case

Lili Kesa, MA :: project manager

Samsung Digital Turn: What and Why?

Whole-school policy towards radical change in learning environment thru 1:1 computing (BYOD), new learning paradigm, school-level change management in line with the Estonian Strategy of Lifelong Learning 2014 – 2020.

The focus of innovation: a single teacher vs whole-school

Facts & figures: •20 pilot schools, 6 members in school team (incl. principal)•6 months of training, coaching and peer-counseling the whole-school digital turn projects •Main prize: 10 000 EUR from Samsung

Digital textbooks in EstoniaTerje Vä ljataga, PhD :: senior researcher

May 2015: All New Textbooks go Digital in Estonia

Re-conceptualising e-textbooks:

e-textbooks as

aggregations of

various materials

through innovative

learning scenarios,

where learner is a

creator of own

knowledge

Bleeding Edge R&D: MOOC’s and learning analytics

Kai Pata, PhD :: senior researcher

MOOC: “Inquiry Learning with Computers” @ EMMA project

• EMMA MOOC’s - Multicultural learning experiences and automatic translation support

• Learning analytics and real-time feedback loop to teachers and learners

MOOCs as Learning EcosystemsFuture trends: - Discovering/Interacting with My Set of MOOC learners

- Recommending from the Set and explorative discovery across Sets using social semantics

- Higher engagement and Flow experiences through gaming approaches

Cross-Set renegotiation of knowledge

Within-Set joint enterprise

Increasing knowledge flow by clustering

Contributing to educational innovation on the global level

Mart Laanpere, PhD :: senior researcher, head of CET

Some examples of our outreach projects

• Georgia (2004 – 2009): assisting in development of the national strategy for ICT in education “Deer Leap”

• Central Asia (2004-2005): advising Central Asian Educational Cooperation Network

• Moldova (2007-2009): teacher training program on implementing ICT in curricula, renewing informatics curriculum

• Palestine (2011): tender for national educational portal• Serbia (2014): teacher training for national curriculum

reform, interdisciplinary computing curricula • Senegal (2015): environmental education in Dakar