Design thinking and agile development are two methodologies that have gained popularity in recent years. While design thinking focuses on understanding and solving complex problems …
The framework for learning patterns, known as the Student Approaches, to Learn (SAL) tradition, was developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s by academics …
Digitalization is transforming education and working life everywhere. It is ubiquitous, influencing the ways in which we work, learn, and communicate with each other. People …
This article is the first one in a series of articles that deal with the topic of interpretable machine learning. The use of artificial intelligence …
The demand for higher education in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is high, with the labour market requiring skilled, knowledgeable and adaptable graduates capable of contributing to …
Building on the idea that all teachers participate in the research activities of a university, HAMK Design Factory has taken the initiative to integrate research …
Increasing energy efficiency has become an important part of the sustainable development of buildings. Our research addresses the question of finding ways to improve the …
This article depicts how HAMK Design Factory approaches its organizational culture, what the different stakeholders inside the higher education institution that affect the manifestation and …
The Zambian and Kenyan rapidly growing dairy sectors hold tremendous development and entrepreneurial potential that can be turned into employment opportunities, wealth creation, improved livelihoods …
The growing understanding of learning processes is calling for transformation from lecture-based to student-centered teaching methods. Lecture-based teaching concentrates on rote learning and homogenizes students. …
The 21st-century world of work requires a complex set of skills and competencies that are difficult to teach and learn within classrooms using traditional lecture-based …
Teamwork is a core component of problem-based learning (PBL). In PBL learning happens through dealing with authentic problems in student teams. For solving the problem, …
The energy system consists of providers and consumers, and traditionally consumers are not actively engaged in optimizing the overall system to minimize energy consumption. One …
This article elaborates on how HAMK Design Factory approaches its organizational culture, what are the different stakeholders inside the higher education institution that affect the …
Higher education should be responsive to the changing world and societies’ needs and produce empowered graduates with transferrable skills and abilities for lifelong learning (Harvey, …
Agriculture plays an important role in sub-Saharan African (SSA) economic and social development (Sasson, 2012). Around half of the workforce in SSA is employed in …
The growing population in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is hungry for education and skills development. Educational needs are especially high within the agricultural sector. Agriculture is …
African higher education institutions (HEIs) have a long and dominant tradition of lecture-based teaching (Muganga & Ssenkusu, 2019). This tradition is about to change with …
Design thinking is an approach to exploring and solving problems through collaboration and creative methods. Importantly, design thinking is not a linear approach, but a …
To solve the pressing concerns of climate change, land degradation, and food insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), a thorough understanding about the complex interactions between …
Problem-based learning (PBL) is an innovative teaching concept, building upon interaction and learners’ own objectives. While PBL has been used in higher education within the …
The educational sector should be responsive and evolve in correspondence to the needs of the society and the world of work. To cope with complex …
Introduction
We know that our service system in Finland does not properly meet the needs of young people (Aaltonen et al., 2015; Björklund et al., 2017; …
Gamification has increased in vocational education and training (VET) as it has been found to have a wide range of benefits for learning, for example, …
There is an increasing need for soft skills competences such as empathy, resilience, capability to solve problems, self-esteem, assertiveness and trustworthiness. This argument is often …
The world population has grown from approximately one billion to more than seven billion people over the last two centuries, and for the first time …
In today’s digital era, enriched media and especially videos can play a critical role in the delivery of rural advisory services. Videos can make agricultural …
The ongoing pandemic has forced a large proportion of students and employees to work remotely from their homes using video conferences, voice calls and text …
The importance of the effect our daily environment has on us is easy to underestimate and often does not get as much attention as needed. …
Introduction
Robotics is becoming important in social and health care. Diverse types of robotics have been developed for this context and used in many ways connected …
Restorative environments are receiving growing attention as a source of stress reduction and other benefits. It is commonly known today that audio-visual technology solutions can …
Finnish higher education institutions are urged to increase their international cooperation and create new activities for mobility. One way to internationalise is to design and …
The Industry 4.0 plays a crucial role nowadays in fostering entrepreneurial activities. The main concepts of the Industry 4.0 can be portrayed in four categories …
In Finland, creative economy and intangible value creation are one focus area in the innovation policy to increase competitiveness both nationally and globally. A great …
Fashion has always been the visible indicator of changes, the warp of materiality and the weft of society (Miller, 2005, p. 17). The consumers are …
Collaborative storytelling, familiar from drama pedagogy, has the potential to immerse students into a learning activity. This immersion may be further enhanced with elements adapted …
Transnational education programmes offer promise for expanding access to education throughout the world, with far fewer geographical barriers than traditional, face-to-face programmes. Properly designed and …
The spread of enteric viruses in water bodies by the discharge of untreated sewage is still a concern in many countries due to health problems …
Perceiving colors is an important part of our everyday life. Often, even the slightest changes in color contain lots of valuable information for us. Based …
Digitalization of education has given new tools for arranging ballet education. The topic is ever present in the whole world and due to this reason …
When we think about the sharing economy, doing good usually comes to mind. An important prerequisite for getting customers interested in taking a more active …
What kind of competence, skills and knowledge do vocational teachers need in the future? Several international and Finnish studies and reports state that globalisation and …
The marketing landscape changes every day. Marketing has already changed into digital during the last ten years. Traditional forms like printed advertisements and brochures are …
It is somewhat surprising to realize that some students can make their way through the studies and not before than in the final stage of …
Esports is competitive gaming that uses the information technology as platform. It is usually played on computers or consoles. eSports is built around competitive gaming, …
How to support personalized learning at work in a digital age? MOOCs (massive open online courses) offer one solution to the challenge. This article describes …
Digitalisation is transforming work and learning, and digital competences are nowadays needed in every vocation. For small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) digital transformation opens promising …
The educational field is in constant change. New digital solutions give a wide variety of possibilities in arranging and building new learning environments. Customers are …
Product Development Project course at Aalto Design Factory is an 8-month-long project course where learning is tied to real-life product development challenges defined by partner …
In building engaging learning in a changing world, we need to rethink our pedagogy and be ready to co-create it all the time. Co-creation pedagogy …
