After a pretty stormy ferry ride, we finally got to Tallinn and started our journey through Tallinn with a light lunch in the old town. Our first stop at Estonia was a place called Technopol which was located at the campus of the University of Technology. Technopol is a big company with a general idea to combine technology, business and students. We only got to see a small area at…
My name is Nora Grotenfelt and I work as a teacher in medicine at Arcada since 2013. When I started, I was asked to completely restructure the two courses in medicine according to the blended classroom pedagogy as a pilot project. Now I´m going to tell you the story about how it all worked out… Around 130 students per year enroll for the two courses in medicine (5 cr each)…
Arcada’s project “Quality of life” was presenting a poster in the EFRR Congress – European Forum for Research in Rehabilitation – which was held in Helsinki on 6-9 May 2015. The theme of the congress is “Being, Doing, Participating” referring to WHO International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health. The congress will provide shared knowledge to be used in human health, new scientific research, and for the improvement of educational…
Du som är intresserad av anatomi och fysiologi samt studerar eller jobbar på Arcada har nu möjlighet att använda databasen Visible Body! Arcadas bibliotek kör en testprenumeration på databasen t.o.m slutet av maj, så passa på att bekanta dig med databasen fram tills dess. Visible Body innehåller interaktiva 3D-modeller av människans anatomi och ger en spännande inblick i människokroppens uppbyggnad. I databasen finns även videor, bilder och information om anatomi…
Hej! Idag firar vi Minna Canth dagen, som är jämställdhetens dag! Dagen till ära har vi första årets socionomstudenter gjort egna empiriska undersökningar om följande ämnen: Minna Canth, vem som handlar maten i hushållet, jämlikhet i kollektivtrafiken, könsroller, jämställdhet i riksdagen och vem som skuffar barnvagnen. Vi har undersökt genom att observera och gjort gallupar runt om i Helsingforsregionen. Vi har nu sammanställt våra resultat och dessa finns att se…
Finland’s startup conference Slush announces its first Asian edition in Tokyo The organizer team behind Finland’s annual tech startup conference Slush, will hold its first Asian edition in Tokyo on April 24th, called Slush Asia. The goal of the event is to light the same entrepreneurial fire in Asian youth as Slush has done in the Nordics through talks by experienced entrepreneurs and a pitching competition. The talks by entrepreneurs…
En av de stora pedagogiska utmaningarna på Arcada som lyfts fram i olika sammanhang är de allt större studerandegrupperna. Februari månads Pedcafé hade som rubrik ”Storgruppspedagogik”. Tematiken diskuterades utgående från fyra frågeställningar: Vilka pedagogiska strategier kan utnyttjas för lyckade, meningsfulla och individualiserade lärprocesser i storgrupp? Vad är en storgrupp? 50, 120 eller 200 studenter? Vilka stöd kan byggas upp på systemnivå? Hur kan man organisera lärandet, handledning och tutorering, kamratstöd?…
Last week within ARVI project a group of researchers from University of Eastern Finland performed emission measurements in PlastLab (B225). Idea of the measurements was to find out what hazardous substances are emitted in the air, while plastic is recycled. Results will help us to understand the process of the recycling better and to find out, how safe it is to stand next to the extruder. Looking forward to read…
I have just finished an ICT course with almost 500 students. To make this work smoothly I’ve decided to jump on a (relatively) new trend in education called Flipped classroom. The idea is simple, you let the students absorb the knowledge at home (or wherever they are), and when they come to class you do the real work to understand and apply the newly acquired knowledge. In my case, I…
In an attempt to further the research and development in the EU region, the commission has revamped how research projects are funded and allocated 80 billion € for R&D over the next few years. This newly released R&D program is called Horizon 2020; and the goal is to simplify and increase the amount of co-operation and research between member states. In a concrete attempt to do this, networking events are held…