Guidelines for effective online feedback in e-Portfolio learning
Kuuntele – Listen Receiving feedback is a key determinant for a successful e-portfolio implementation. When introducing an e-portfolio, one not only needs to prepare the…
Dialogue, Data, Design – How Global Education Research and Development Drives Educational Innovations
Kuuntele – Listen Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK) has four research centres: Bioeconomy, Smart Services, Professional Excellence and Sheet Metal Centre. The goal is…
Flipped ePortfolio as a tool to increase student motivation
Kuuntele – Listen The purpose of this study is to investigate the introduction of ePortfolios in the chemistry classes of two secondary schools in the…
A case study with simulation tools for early-stage renovation planning
Kuuntele – Listen The building sector consumed around forty percent of the total energy consumption in the European Union (EU) in 2010. Simultaneously, the sector…
Brazilian teacher students’ motivation, challenges and change by doing
Kuuntele – Listen The goal of the study was to find out Brazilian teacher students’ considerations related to their pedagogical development work implementation and their…
ePortfolio as a tool for competence-based learning, assessment and evaluation in language teacher education
Kuuntele – Listen The need to educate teachers through a mix of traditional content-based and newer competence-based teaching and assessment methods has been recognized for…
Professional experience informing facilitative, cognitive and social guidance on ePortfolios
Kuuntele – Listen To continue the cycle of learning about ePortfolios, an important action that practitioners can take is sharing lessons learned from their professional…
Fifteen recommendations on the meaningful use of ePortfolios in Higher Education
Kuuntele – Listen Globalization and digitalization have crucially transformed studying and work environments, and lifelong learning, career management skills and digital competences of the European…
EEP Impacts 3 – Organizational and networking perspectives
Kuuntele – Listen What kinds of impacts did the Empowering Eportfolio Process (EEP) project achieve at the organizational and networking levels? This article describes the…
EEP Impacts 2 – Students’, teachers’, and employers’ perspectives
Kuuntele – Listen Using ePortfolios in higher education can have strong impacts on improving competence-based education and lifelong learning. The Empowering Eportfolio Process (EEP) project,…
EEP impacts 1 – Framework for impact evaluation
Kuuntele – Listen In this article, we present our approach in evaluating the impacts of the Empowering Eportfolio Process (EEP) project, implemented by six higher…
Empowering ePortfolio Process in Higher Education
Kuuntele – Listen This article is an introduction to the collection of articles “Empowering ePortfolio Process in Higher Education”, which is the final publication of…
ePortfolio in teachers’ work at VIA University College
Kuuntele – Listen How does ePortfolio become an integrated part of a teacher’s work? This question was investigated by the partners in the Erasmus+ project…
Moving from a focus on the student to a focus on the teacher
Kuuntele – Listen The use of ePortfolios in Irish higher education institutions (HEIs) has been gathering momentum in recent years. In Marino Institute of Education…
ePortfolios in teachers’ work at UC Leuven-Limburg
Kuuntele – Listen The interest to work with ePortfolio in STEM education such as ‘Biomedical laboratory technology’ has increased over the last years. The Empowering…
How do teachers value ePortfolios in career and competence management?
Kuuntele – Listen The rapid technological development has made today’s job market more competitive and complex, and increasingly digital. Schawbel (2011) has predicted that various…
ePortfolios in recruitment of upper secondary school teachers
Kuuntele – Listen The recruitment of upper secondary school teachers might seem quite easy. They have to have the right background, that is, a Master’s…
Everybody wins in a customer-oriented module project
Kuuntele – Listen In a module-based learning model, careful planning of learning assignments is the key to success. The short duration of the project gives…
Teachers’ work in a student-centred approach to ePortfolio
Kuuntele – Listen At Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal (IPS), despite the long tradition of the School of Education (ESE) with portfolios in different academic degrees…
Connecting students and the world of work with ePortfolios
Kuuntele – Listen In higher education, bringing academic students in contact with their possible future workplace is quite a challenge. For some educational programs, it…
Role of ePortfolios in innovative higher education
Kuuntele – Listen At Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK), the learning infrastructure has been developed to meet the needs of competence-based higher education. Study…
Interests of the world of work and transparency in ePortfolio
Kuuntele – Listen The focus of this article is to share some of the preliminary results of an ongoing study carried out under the framework…
Challenges faced by students from rural areas when applying to NIS schools
Kuuntele – Listen The recent emergence and rapid amplifications of modernisation of Kazakhstan have led to a major interest in education that combines the best…
Incremental sheet forming enables prototyping of sheet metal products
Kuuntele – Listen Incremental sheet forming is an inexpensive technique for sheet metal prototyping and small batch works. The final product is formed by a…
An employer’s perspective on the use of ePortfolio – The Randstad Case
Kuuntele – Listen Digital tools and environments can create new benefits for the workplaces and also help them with their human resources management. Digital portfolios…
The Influence of Concept-Based Teaching on High School Students’ Research Skills
Kuuntele – Listen This article is based on the results of the action research at Nazarbayev Intellectual School (NIS) in Pavlodar. Nazarbayev Intellectual schools are…
Transparency in ePortfolio at UC Leuven-Limburg
Kuuntele – Listen In developing practices in higher education, it is important to explore different perspectives. In previous analyses of Empowering Eportfolio Process (EEP) project…
How can ePortfolios promote employment?
Kuuntele – Listen In the Polytechnic Institute of Setubal (IPS), in Portugal, we have a long history of using portfolios in student-centred and competence-based education.…
Eportfolios in project work recruitment
Kuuntele – Listen In a rapidly changing world of work, it has become increasingly more common that instead of organisations, various kinds of projects provide…
Towards accessible higher education and career guidance
Kuuntele – Listen Awareness of students with special educational needs in Finnish universities is low. Staff should have better knowledge of accessibility and appropriate study…
Shared teacher education in HAMK and VIA
Kuuntele – Listen The partner universities implemented their first joint project of teacher training at the turn of the year 2017. The international dimension made…
How can ePortfolios work in a big university hospital?
Kuuntele – Listen In developing professional higher education practices, it is important to interact closely with representatives of work life and listen to their insights.…
Team learning experiences
Kuuntele – Listen The School of Bioeconomy of Häme University of Applied Sciences adopted the model of team learning in 2013. The transformation was substantial,…
Application of STEAM for improving students’ motivation through labs in the classroom
Kuuntele – Listen Motivating students is one of the major challenges that we teachers deal with every day. Concepts like students’ energy and drive to…
Smart HAMK design
Kuuntele – Listen In discourses on design the word “smart” is coming up with increasing frequency. As a focus of government attention the concept has…
Developing a Hamkoid through experimentation
Kuuntele – Listen Using robots in the guidance of preschool children was tested at the Forssa unit of the Häme University of Applied Science in…
Inspirations of vocational teachers’ education from Finland to China
Kuuntele – Listen In this article, we will discuss inspirations of Finnish vocational teacher education to China and reflect the future development of vocational teacher…
Comparisons of vocational teacher education in Finland and China
Kuuntele – Listen In this article, we compare vocational teacher education in Finland and China. Here, vocational teacher education refers to teacher training offered by…
How to make Guidance Counselling Digital?
Kuuntele – Listen Guidance and guidance counselling are in the process of change due to the phenomenon of digitalism in education. The pedagogical approach and…
HAMK Unlimited Podcast, jakso 5: Why should you design a better learning
Kuuntele – Listen In the fifth episode of HAMK Unlimited Podcast, Vesa Tuomela, Ville Siipola and Katarzyna Sanak-Kosmowska discuss sprint, design thinking, prototyping and modelling,…
The benefits and challenges of using ePortfolios
Kuuntele – Listen In this paper, the outcomes of a study designed to explore student’s ePortfolio process and digital competency development in an undergraduate Education…
Transforming pedagogy in Higher Education
Kuuntele – Listen In this article we present some reflections of the ongoing research, developed within the scope of the EEP project — Empowering ePortfolio…
Students’ perspectives on using an ePortfolio and their digital competences
Kuuntele – Listen Technology is increasingly important in educational practice. While there is a widespread use of a variety of e-tools, digital competences are typically…
Analysis on students’ ePortfolio expectations
Kuuntele – Listen The landscape of higher education in Europe has been changing during the last decades. A combination of different changes resulted in that…
Making sense with ePortfolios
Kuuntele – Listen This article discusses the question of making sense out of working with ePortfolio in adult education. The article presents the results of…
Triggering students to create ePortfolios
Kuuntele – Listen In higher education, innovative assessment practices need to cover the whole path of professional growth and provide students meaningful ways to demonstrate…
How to put all my knowledge into words?
Kuuntele – Listen Nowadays different kinds of learning environments are needed, and it is important to consider how these competences will be managed in digital…
Supporting students’ ePortfolio process in Higher Education
Kuuntele – Listen In the framework of the Empowering ePortfolio Process (EEP) project, “ePortfolios are student-owned digital working and learning spaces for collecting, creating, sharing,…
Smart homes are changing our daily living
Kuuntele – Listen Smart devices and solutions are present in our everyday living and markets of smart home appliances will grow manyfold during next several…
Artificial intelligence supports deep learning
Kuuntele – Listen Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a fast developing area in the fields of digitalization and data analytics. It is not only replicating prepared…
