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Aldahdouh, Tahani Z.; Murtonen, Mari; Riekkinen, Jere; Vilppu, Henna; Nguyen, Trang; Nokelainen, Petri – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
The purpose of this study was to understand the factors behind university teachers' ability to implement instructional changes during the COVID-19 pandemic. An online questionnaire comprised of open-ended and Likert-scale questions was administered to teachers at a Finnish university in April 2020. The sample consisted of 378 university teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Change Strategies, Instruction
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Joshi, Marjo; Scheinin, Minna; Miranda, Luis; Piispa, Juliana – Journal of Learning for Development, 2020
ISO Colegío in Paraiba, Brazil, implemented Finnish innovation pedagogy from Turku University of Applied Sciences (TUAS) as a pedagogical strategy in their new primary school in early 2020. The implementation started in class teaching but due to the pandemic, it was transferred online, still using the new pedagogical approaches. Experiences by…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Instructional Innovation, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Students
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Korhonen, Tiina; Juurola, Leenu; Salo, Laura; Airaksinen, Johanna – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2021
This case study explores how Finnish primary school teachers orchestrated school days and how teachers and headmasters organised virtual workplace collaboration and collaborated with parents during a period of distance education forced by the COVID-19 crisis in Spring 2020. The data was collected by interviewing primary and secondary school…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Case Studies, Elementary School Teachers, Parent Teacher Cooperation
Gaebel, Michael; Zhang, Thérèse; Stoeber, Henriette; Morrisroe, Alison – European University Association, 2021
In Europe today, almost every higher education institution uses digitally enhanced learning and teaching. Since EUA began exploring this topic in 2013, digitally enhanced learning and teaching has been further embraced by higher education institutions across Europe, with general acceptance growing and institutions widely acknowledging the benefits…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Information Technology
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Sharma, Ramesh C., Ed. – IGI Global, 2018
New tools and technologies are being developed to cater to the e-learning triangle of content, technology, and services. These developments (in technology, needs of students, emergence of new modes of education like MOOCs or flipped classrooms, etc.) have resulted in a change in the approach to teaching. "Innovative Applications of Online…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Instructional Design
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Zhang, Jinbao, Ed.; Yang, Junfeng, Ed.; Chang, Maiga, Ed.; Chang, Tingwen, Ed. – Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2016
Intended to promote the innovative use of technology in education and promote educational advances all over the world, this volume brings together 16 best-practice cases on technology-enhanced educational innovations. Experts from Turkey, Tunisia, Cyprus, Italy, Malaysia, China, India and Finland have contributed to these cases, highlighting the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Best Practices, Educational Innovation, Technology Uses in Education
Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2013
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Conference on Education and New Developments 2013, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 1 to 3 of June. Education, in a global sense, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the human being, in the way one thinks, feels and acts. One of the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Faculty Development, Staff Development, Educational Quality
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Thorsteinsson, Gisli; Page, Tom; Lehtonen, Miika; Ha, Joong Gyu – Journal of Educational Technology, 2006
This article provides a descriptive account of the development of an approach to the support of design and technology education with 3D Virtual Reality (VR) technologies on an open and distance learning basis. This work promotes an understanding of the implications and possibilities of advanced virtual learning technologies in education for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Innovation, Educational Environment, Computer Simulation