FINNABLE 2020 has four work packages: Boundless Classroom, Teacher’s Toolkit, ExerGames in Learning and Emergent Learning Technologies and Communities. All work packages have the same aim: to provide new pedagogical models of how to break barriers between formal and non-formal learning settings using new technological tools (e.g. mobile learning tools, Web2.0, games and new media applications). The work packages use a variety of test beds in schools in different continents, higher education, companies, and citizens’ open media forums. The main outcome is a prototype of a new Global Sharing Pedagogy and its applications globally and locally. Emergent Learning Technologies and Communities work package fosters international research cooperation with Stanford University.
FINNABLE 2020 WORK PACKAGES
Boundless Classroom: creating new learning models aided by technology, which highlight collaboration and sharing regardless of time and place and foster a sense of community between different cultures.
Principal Investigators: Professor Hannele Niemi, Professor Jari Multisilta, Professor Jari Lavonen, Professor Kirsi Tirri
Teacher’s Toolkit: producing a prototype of an open, interactive and collaborative Web 2.0 environment for sharing and service systems. This sub-project seeks to improve the sharing of best practices, key resources, and effective strategies using new technological tools. Teacher’s Collaborative Toolkit is a virtual teachers’ resource net to which different mobile services, learning material and authentic resource repositories, such as digital archives, tutoring and mentoring support, professional peer learning practices, can be connected.
Principal Investigators: Professor Jari Multisilta and Professor Hannele Niemi
ExerGames in Learning: developing and testing game solutions that increase physical activity in the classroom without interfering the objectives of the curriculum, especially exergames in mobile environments.
Principal Investigators: FT Kristian Kiili, Tampere University of Technology in Pori
Emergent Learning Technologies and Communities: supporting collaboration and exchange programs with H-STAR Institute at Stanford University, advancing internationalized, networked higher education and research practices.
Principal Investigator: Professor Jari Multisilta