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LEAD closing event
2 years have passed since the beginning of LEAD project and many things have happened during this time. Last Thursday 27th of November we had an open meeting in which we wanted to share the insights,...
View ArticleLearning & Design meetup
Interested to have a chat around learning and design with likeminded people? Join our learning & design meetup on Thursday November 27th in Aalto School of Business to meet researchers,...
View ArticleLEAD researchers contribute to Wikipedia
We’ve accumulated a lot of knowledge and understanding during the LEAD project and our question is how shall we share it? And the natural answer is to make Wikipedia pages even better for others! We’ve...
View ArticleAalto Digi Platform meets on e-learning and MOOCs
Aalto University has set up what is called as Digi Platform to examine how digitalization influences society and industries. The next meeting focuses on MOOCs and e-learning and takes place on...
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Feeler co-design workshop with foreign exchange students
A third Feeler co-design workshop was organized among Kyushu university foreign exchange students. In this occasion, the main aim was to identify differences with Asian participants of previous Feeler...
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Feeler co-design workshop with Kyushu University students
A second co-design workshop was organized as part of Feeler design research with students of Kyushu University Design School. Similarly to previous workshop, organized with the support of professor...
View ArticleEdMedia 2014 in Tampere, LEAD is here too
The international EdMedia conference is starting now at Tampere, and the LEAD research group is extreamly visible in the conference. We have our own LEAD Symposium: Design for Learning: Enhancing...
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Feeler co-design pilot workshop
As part of Feeler design concept contextual inquiry, a co-design workshop was organized with students of Kyushu University Design School. The intention of the workshop was to explore issues dealing...
View ArticleSocial shift in MOOCs
Executive summary: Matti has been looking some MOOC related research taking place in UC Berkeley. One emerging theme is adding peer-to-peer interaction into the exercises to support learning. Matti...
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Square1 software / hardware prototype testing in a school
More photos from the workshop. Couple of weeks ago, we held the first workshop with students for the Square1 software / harware prototype. The objective of the workshop was to explore how the Square1...
View ArticleEducation Research in Berkeley
Originally published in my personal blog Science & Industry. Greetings from Berkeley Education Research Day, one day event exploring education research and practice around education. The US...
View ArticleRichard Stallman to speak at Aalto
We are happy to announce that with our project partner, Eliademy we are organizing an event where Richard Stallman will give a speech about Free Digital Society. The event is free (as in beer) and free...
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Feeler workshop
As part of the contextual inquiry of Feeler’s prototype design, a participatory workshop was held with MA students of the School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Feeler is a design-in-progress tool...
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LEAD progress
In the last couple of months the LEAD project’s university research partners have been focusing on case studies, additional participatory design sessions and development of new prototypes. The research...
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The Backchannel Study and few notes on experiments
The school is over, and so is the extensive studies (5 classes, total of circa 75 students) conducted in Hämeenlinna have come to end. The idea was that the classes used a hacked version of a...
View ArticleEmergent design with iPads and 3D printers
What do you get when you take 40 2nd grade students, show them a 3D printer in action, give them 10 iPads, a 3D modeling app, a theme, and 1 hour? There is no 1:1 setup, no strict curriculum, no strict...
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Square1: Third PD workshop with girls in Oakland
During two prior participatory design sessions with girls in the ACORD Woodland public school in Oakland, California we started developed software ideas for the interaction design and functionality...
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Maker Education Initiative anniversary
At the 1-year Maker Education Initiative (MakerEd) anniversary celebration at the Maker Faire on Thursday, Dale Dougherty presented his vision for bringing making back into schools by connecting it to...
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Square1: Second PD workshop with girls in Oakland
In context of the techGyrls mentor program of the YWCA Berkeley/Oakland, program coordinator, Jana, four active mentors, Becca, Jules, Lily and Emily, and I facilitated the second a participatory...
View ArticleLEAD project Vimeo channel
The new Vimeo channel of the LEAD project is starting out strong with 13 short videos of Participatory Design sessions with girls at the ACRON Wooldland school in Oakland, California.
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