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Collaborative learning in interdisciplinary

higher educationProf. Dr. Teemu Leinonen

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Presentation with 3 parts.

Write down:

1 question from each.

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Part 1: Aalto University

Part 2: Educating change makers

Part 3: Learning

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Part 1: Aalto University

Aalto University– Where science and art meet technology

and business

01.05.20236

Zach Dodson

Three leading universities form Aalto University in 2010

Helsinki University of Technology, found in 1849

Helsinki School of Economics, found in 1911

University of Art and Design Helsinki, found in 1871

75 000 alumni

20 000 students

5 000 employees

Group work at PackAGE course.

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Photo Sami Heiskanen / flickr / Slush

Photo Sami Heiskanen / flickr / Slush

Biofilia – Base for Biological Arts.

A student group presenting their work

Wearable electronics course.

In campus: Drilling Finland's first geothermal energy heat plant.

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Art education happening with all the school children of Helsinki City.

Game research: Physical / virtual games.

© Ari-Pekka Sinikoski

Pavijonki. a yes –space.

© Pyry-Pekka Kantonen

Pavijonki. a yes –space.

© WDC Helsinki

Pavijonki. a yes –space.

ChemArts – New materials from the forest.

Frankfurtin kirjamessut

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Study project: Exhibition design.

Factories and platforms

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Part 1: Aalto University

Part 2: Educating change makers

Part 3: Learning

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Part 2: Educating change makers

Education is about the future.

What do we know about the future?

We can analyze trends. . . from the history.

The future of work?

EK Oivallus 2011. Illustration: Rami Niemi

Work takes place in networks.

EK Oivallus 2011. Illustration: Rami Niemi

Less symphony orchestra, more jazz.

How are our graduates?

EK Oivallus 2011. Illustration: Rami Niemi

Today: often high-quality individual performers.

EK Oivallus 2011. Illustration: Rami Niemi

In the future: people who understand other competence and get excited about them.

EK Oivallus 2011. Illustration: Rami Niemi

In the future: creative, active people.

In the future: people who understand other competence and get excited about them.

How to become a network player? How to learn to work with others?

(or how to learn to play jazz?)

How to still reach the depth?How to become an expert in some area?

(how to become good enough to play a solo?)

What research suggests?

Critical is the access to the tacit knowledge of the experts.

Expertise develops in participation to the

practices of the experts, rather than by studying

formal knowledge.

(Brown, Duguid, & Collins,1987, Hakkarainen 2002)

What research suggests?

What research suggests?

Practicing work with experts from different fields than yours.

(Brown, Duguid, & Collins,1987, Hakkarainen 2002)

Brown, Duguid, & Collins,1987, Hakkarainen 2002

What research suggests?

Practicing work with experts from different fields than yours.

Critical is the access to the tacit knowledge of the experts.

Expertise develops in participation to the

practices of the experts, rather than by studying

formal knowledge.

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Part 1: Aalto University

Part 2: Educating change makers

Part 3: Learning

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Part 3: Learning

Three metaphors of learning

Knowledge acquisition

Participation

Knowledge creation

Knowledge acquisition

Learning is an individual cognitive process

Participation

Learning is a socio-cultural process

Knowledge creation

Learning is a socio-cultural process with

an intention to produce artefacts

(Hakkarainen, Lonka Lipponen 1999, Illustration Raami)

Progressive inquiry

Basic desires:What makes people to act?

1. Desire to influence (including leadership; related to mastery)

2. Desire for knowledge3. Desire to be autonomous4. Desire for social standing

(including desire for attention)5. Desire for peer companionship

(desire to play)6. Desire to get even (including

desire to compete, to win)7. Desire to obey a traditional

moral code

7. Desire to improve society (including altruism, justice)

8. Desire to exercise muscles9. Desire for sex (including courting)10. Desire to raise own children11. Desire to organize (including

desire for ritual)12. Desire to eat13. Desire for approval14. Desire to avoid anxiety and fear15. Desire to collect, value of frugality

(Reiss 2004)

LabOurWard! – Innovating to save women’s and babies lives in low resource settings DOM-E5042 (5-10 cr)

Explore how the interplay of services, space and media can create better experiences for women, children and families, as well as an empowering work environment for health care providers.

Information design? Visualizations? Way- finding? Story telling? Spatial design? Materials and colors? Gadgets? Services?

The focus will be on resource low settings in Sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia.

Results will be exhibited and presented at the Women Deliver conference in Copenhagen during 16-19 May 2016 (see: http://wd2016.org) in the form of a “LabourWard prototype”

DL for application 17.9.2015WebOdi code: DOM-E5042

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Thank you.