Response of Finnish higher education institutions to the national information society programme

2000 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seppo Hölttä ◽  
Pertti Malkki
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
National Information ◽  
Finnish Higher Education

Students Writing Their Own Lectures with a Wiki and the CSA

2010 ◽  
pp. 244-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cath Ellis ◽  
Sue Folley
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Teaching Strategy ◽  
Student Population ◽  
Diverse Background ◽  
Overwhelming Evidence ◽  
Didactic Lecture

This chapter examines why despite decades of research and overwhelming evidence questioning the pedagogical effectiveness of lecturing as a teaching and learning strategy, it remains the dominant pedagogical mode in most higher education institutions worldwide. The authors explore further why lectures are not the most appropriate teaching strategy in the current higher education climate for three main reasons: the way we now view ‘knowledge’; the information society in which we are currently immersed; and the diverse background and experience of today’s student population. The authors offer an alternative to the lecture which can achieve what a lecture aims to, but in a more student-centred way. Their alternative is informed by the contributing student approach, devised by Collis & Moonen (2001), whereby students collaboratively find, explore, share, and engage with the content which they would have otherwise received passively via a didactic lecture.

scholarly journals THE CHALLENGES OF FORMALIZATION AND MODELING OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 303-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivars Linde ◽  
Mariana Petrova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Current System ◽  
Classical Model ◽  
System Structure ◽  
Global Information ◽  
Virtual Absence ◽  
Global Information Society

This study is aimed at the analysis and development of methodologies to ensure and manage the quality of higher education. There have been radical changes and transformation of the postindustrial society into a global information society on the basis of knowledge and competence, and the increased external demands from society to the result of higher education have significantly influenced the development of higher education at the end of the 20th century. Accordingly, the roles, organizational forms and ways of functioning of higher education institutions (HEIs) have changed as one of the basic elements of the higher education system, ensuring the development of economic, social, cultural and global, national and regional communities as a whole. The current system of education is characterized by the virtual absence of institutions responsible for the results of their activities. Not sufficiently independent forms and mechanisms of participation of citizens, employers, professional associations on the development of educational policy have not been developed. There are no structures for an independent assessment of the quality of education.As a result of adaptation to the global information society, the classical model of the HEI was transformed, which manifested itself in the formation of a new type of HEI. The vector of transformation of the models of HEI were not only accompanied by diverse organizational change and revisions of the missions of universities, but also by the formation of strategic management as a factor in-system with the release of its organizational and functional entity. In the article, as a form of presentation of scientific methodologies of social processes and objects, a triad hierarchical model is proposed, represented in the form of a hierarchical system containing levels: system, structure, inter-system exchange, movement and applied fields of knowledge. Thus, the essence of the approach is to develop a triadic concept and its application to describe the structures of social objects and processes and construct different classes of models to study their properties and improve management processes, taking into account the human factor.In the future, the proposed methodology can provide the most appropriate solution to ensure a comprehensive and high-quality higher education.

Students’ perceptions of the entrepreneurial culture in Finnish higher education institutions

2021 ◽  
pp. 095042222110667
Author(s):  
Katja Lahikainen ◽  
Kati Peltonen ◽  
Elena Oikkonen ◽  
Timo Pihkala
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Institutional Support ◽  
Entrepreneurial Universities ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Entrepreneurial Behaviour ◽  
Entrepreneurial Culture ◽  
Organisational Structures ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Finnish Higher Education

The purpose of this study is to add to the literature on entrepreneurial universities by investigating entrepreneurial culture (EC) in higher education institutions (HEIs). The authors investigate how students experience EC and which factors explain their perceptions of EC. The study is based on a survey of HEI students in Finland with 1277 responses. The results show that formal institutional support and institution-level activities have the strongest impact on the students’ experienced EC. According to the findings, formal institutional support has a greater impact on students’ perceptions of EC than student-driven activities. Furthermore, the results highlight that the encouragement of teachers has a greater influence on students’ perceptions of EC than peer students and student-driven activities. Accordingly, the paper’s theoretical contribution to the literature lies in its demonstration that institutional support, in addition to the encouragement of teachers, influences HEI students’ perceptions of EC. With regard to practical implications, the findings indicate that, if HEIs wish to build an EC and operate entrepreneurially, it is vital to support teachers’ entrepreneurial behaviour and thinking. In addition, equal emphasis needs to be placed on the observable artefacts and on clear, well-communicated organisational structures and processes.

scholarly journals Modernization Principles of the Dual Education System Development in Hotel and Restaurant Business

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4S) ◽  
pp. 11-14
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Information Society ◽  
System Development ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Education Systems ◽  
Education Development ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Methodological Principles

The paper deals with the methodological principles of the dual education development in the hotel and restaurant business considering the modernization paradigm. The preconditions for the formation of dual education systems in different countries suggest that such an approach should be more appropriately applied to practically oriented specialties. Analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of existing dual education systems offers an opportunity to suggest ways to modernize them in the conditions of the information society development. The paper proposes a system of principles (general and specific) on which the cooperation of higher education institutions and hotel and restaurant business should be based. The stages and methodological approaches to the analysis of hotel and restaurant business modernization processes in the context of the formation of a dual education system are substantiated.

scholarly journals MODERN INFORMATION MOBILE TOOLS OF TRAINING IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

2019 ◽  
pp. 48-51
Author(s):  
O. Poliak
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Linear Models ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Information Tools ◽  
Patterns Of Behavior ◽  
Modern Information ◽  
The Impact

The article is devoted to modern information tools of training as a way to optimize the process of training future specialists. Emphasis is placed on the importance of technological innovation and the theory of learning in the application of a variety of technologies to teaching and teaching. It is determined that the patterns of behavior of modern students are changing with respect to their rapidly expanding digital environment. Modern digital students think and process information differently from their predecessors – thinking in parallel and linear models and reading visual images that could be used to read text. It is emphasized that new technologies, such as those described in the article, can give students of the information society and the interaction society the opportunity to receive increased and continuous participation in learning. Active students interact with their environment and manipulate objects in that environment, observe the impact of their interventions, and build their own interpretations of the phenomena and results of manipulations, share these interpretations with others. These descriptions offer connections to previously identified features of the Information Society and the Society for Interaction and New Technologies. Different approaches of providing modern active education in higher education institutions are analyzed. In summary, mobile learning devices can provide individuality through unique profiles, this category of technology can be a proper choice of learning environment aimed at enhancing individual learning orientation. Mobile devices need to be in tune with how events are happening around the world and the web, even if those devices have been used for personal purposes only. It is emphasized that a critical aspect of such a strategy is that the mobile device is not simply integrated into the educational and higher education institutions or fell into the hands of its user, as has been done, for example, with recent initiatives on computers and laptops. On the contrary, individual profiles must be intentionally designed into the device and involved in the educational process in educational institutions in general and in higher education institutions in particular.

scholarly journals Finnish higher education institutions' reactions to the 2015 asylum seeker situation

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 143-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi Vaarala ◽  
Eeva-Leena Haapakangas ◽  
Erja Kyckling ◽  
Taina Saarinen
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Asylum Seeker ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Apparent Paradox ◽  
Finnish Higher Education ◽  
Societal Role

In 2015, military conflicts and related humanitarian crises neighbouring areas of Europe made millions of people leave their homes. Europe, including Finland, experienced a rapid increase in the number of asylum seekers. In this article, we examine the reception of asylum seekers by Finnish higher education institutions mainly by analysing media data written about and written by universities and universities of applied sciences in Finland. The higher education institutions, in keeping with their societal role, spontaneously developed various kinds of pop-up courses, co-operation projects and other activities for asylum seekers. These activities range from crisis work to medical clinics and sports events to language teaching. This led us to ask in this article, whether new tasks were emerging in the Finnish higher education institutions’ understanding of the societal role of higher education. This main question is operationalised in three subquestions. Firstly, we are interested in seeing how higher education institutions motivate their actions on developing activities for asylum seekers. Secondly, we analyse the goals and gainers of these activities. Thirdly, we discuss the challenges faced by the higher education institutions in their refugee and asylum seeker activities. Based on our findings, we suggest that new kinds of voluntary and humanitarian activities appear to be emerging at Finnish higher education institutions, as they responded to the increase in the number of asylum seekers, suggesting a change in the traditions of societal impact of Finnish higher education. Our analysis also shows an apparent paradox in the activities of the institutions: while they had no way of knowing how many asylum seekers will remain in Finland, they still organised activities that implied staying in Finland for a longer time. The higher education institutions themselves benefitted from the activities: they could exhibit their expertise and previous research in the area of immigrant studies, and aspects of service-learning system of societal activity could be taken into their curricula. Helping the asylum seekers brought the university community together while the asylum seekers themselves remained passive objects of the activities.

Stages of Globalization and Their Reflections on Higher Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 306-325
Author(s):  
Oya Tamtekin Aydin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Dynamic Structure ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Social Lives ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
The World ◽  
National Borders

Globalization refers to the case wherein individuals' demand the fulfillment of their needs and desires from the world that they cannot fulfill within national borders and the dynamism these demands create within themselves. Moreover, this dynamic structure, which exists to satisfy needs and desires, has massively impacted the financial, political, and social lives of societies. Shaped around globalization, a global market was established in the world. Further, the communication emerging due to the establishment of a global market necessitated the development of a common perspective among distinct cultures and revealed a need for people who could perceive this aspect. Thus, an inevitable bond was formed between globalization and education; this relationship is evidently observed in higher education institutions, as they are one of the essential components of an information society. This study therefore deals with different periods wherein the effects of globalization were noticed and the interaction between these periods and the field of higher education.

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