Owen Kelly (D. Phil), Principal lecturer in Online Media, Department of Culture and Media, Arcada UAS In November 2019 I reported about a project that Irma Sippola and I started and which we call Snowcastle Valley. As part of this I have committed myself to teach eleven teenage girls and women, and five teenage boys, all school dropouts living below the poverty line, to code using the Scratch programming…
Read moreVi har tagit i bruk en självbetjäningshylla för reserverade böcker. Hyllan finns vid lånedisken. Alla har fått en automatiskt genererad nummerserie som reservationskod (exempel: 1234-1234-1234). Du ser din reservationskod i ankostmeddelandet, och i din profil i Arcada Finna. Byt gärna koden till något självvalt via Arcada Finna. Kom ihåg att låna boken i låneautomaten! Vi har fått två nya grupprum. Det ena är stort och luftigt och rymmer en betydligt…
Read moreMonday morning started in Arcada’s simulation center, where students in the study module My Future Work Life 1 experienced learning in a different environment than usual. The brand new study module is open for all students in all programmes, however it just so happens that the participants this first time are all engineering students. This was one workshop out of five, and the topic was communication, verbal as well as…
Read moreHi and greetings from Fort Lauderdale, Florida! Its been warm and sunny. This blog post is continuing the intelligencehunt #5 blog post. Those who know, the team I was part of won the intelligencehunt competition in Oslo this summer, and our prize was to attend the Ocean Exchange as VIP guest in Fort Lauderdale. This happened a few weeks ago. Our team travelled to Miami and enjoyed a couple of…
Read moreDuring the first week of this semester, all new students (N=678) in our bachelor programmes were invited to participate in a survey called Me and My Knowledge. The students completed the web survey during scheduled sessions, and (most probably) due to this arrangement, we managed to collect 521 responses, out of which the major part is complete. Our sincerest thanks to all participating students! With 71 statements, the web survey…
Read moreTomas Träskman, Degree Programme Director: Cultural Management, Department of Culture and Media, Arcada UAS. Since many of the students of Cultural Management write their thesis immersed in practice I often arrange supervision in the environment where they actually do that practice. At times it can be really inspiring. In connection to one such supervision, I had the opportunity to take part in “Creative Mornings” an event all around the…
Read moreDear readers! We are pleased to, finally, be able to announce that our project final seminar is drawing near! Held at Arcada UAS (Helsinki Finland) 14.11.2019 from 10.00-16.00 local time, there is an option of attending in person OR globally online. So, wherever you may be reading this, you have the possibility to join us! We have chosen to call our seminar “The home-care jigsaw: bridgning the pieces together in…
Read moreThe spring and the summer, have been a busy time for Toteemi at Arcada. We have, during the spring, completed and refined all of the planned Toteemi initiatives and the active dissemination has started. At the Nordyrk conference we had both posters and oral presentations. Our initiatives focused on diversity and recognition of competencies among foreign students (especially students who had a degree or profession from their home country), on…
Read moreTeam NURED is soon ready for a well-deserved summer break, but before this we would like to share some of the things that we have been up to during this spring! As Lead Partner representative I, Anu Grönlund, went on a road trip visiting all partners and participated in all focus groups discussions that we had planned to conduct during the spring. The aim of the focus group discussions was…
Read moreVi tog oss utanför biblioteket för att ta reda på vad studenterna tycker om vår kommunikation. Några dagar på språng i studentkorridorerna gav oss ledtrådar, men också en chans att synliggöra våra informationskanaler. Vad vi ville veta Eftersom vi upplevt att det är svårt att nå ut till studenterna med biblioteksinfo beslöt vi göra en minienkät. Målet var att få en snabb idé om vad studenterna tycker. Som verktyg använde…
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