HOW TO ENSURE WORKING LIFE SKILLS IN HIGHER EDUCATION – PLANS IN A NEW HIGHER EDUCATION COMMUNITY IN TAMPERE, FINLAND

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sari Leinonen ◽  
Eila Pajarre ◽  
Sanna Kivimäki
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Life Skills ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Education Community ◽  
Education Plans

scholarly journals How Can Flipped Classroom Approach Support the Development of University Students’ Working Life Skills?—University Teachers’ Viewpoint

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 366
Author(s):  
Sanna Väisänen ◽  
Laura Hirsto
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
University Students ◽  
Life Skills ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Classroom Environments ◽  
Education Students ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Semistructured Interviews

Higher education students need both generic skills and field-specific knowledge in order to cope with the diverse demands of working life. The aim of this study was to gain a better understanding of the development of university students’ working life skills and of how these skills can be developed in learning environments utilizing the flipped classroom approach. The focus was on the experiences and thoughts of higher education teachers concerning which learning environment features support the development of working life skills. Altogether, 22 higher education teachers from a Finnish university were interviewed with semistructured interviews, and the data was subjected to content analysis. The results indicated that teachers identified several generic and field-specific working life skills, the most important of which were collaboration, communication, information literacy, and skills related to career and responsibilities. The flipped classroom appeared to support students’ active role and facilitate versatile ways of learning. Especially, cooperative and active learning were identified to be the key means to support the development of students’ working life skills in flipped classroom environments. Facilitating students’ opportunities to develop their working life skills can be seen as an integral part of flipped classroom environments in many ways. However, it is important that the opportunities are actively promoted, and conceptual and practical tools are provided for the student through university studies.

scholarly journals HR scenario game: Learning human resource management in a virtual environment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elina Riivari ◽  
Tommi Auvinen ◽  
Juhani Merilehto
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Business School ◽  
Life Skills ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Computer Based

This paper introduces a computer-based online scenario game that was developed to enhance the learning of human resource management (HRM) in an undergraduate course at a business school in Finland. What makes this game unique is that students played an important and active role in developing the game in collaboration with lecturers. Our findings show that the game enhances learning, interaction, and collaboration among students. We discuss how computer-based games and their development in collaboration with students can be used as a means for learning and improving working-life skills in higher education.

The vocational route to higher education in Finland: Students’ backgrounds, choices and study experiences

2021 ◽  
pp. 147490412199626
Author(s):  
Nina Haltia ◽  
Ulpukka Isopahkala-Bouret ◽  
Annukka Jauhiainen
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Educational Backgrounds ◽  
Mature Students ◽  
Academic Track ◽  
Education Community ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Institutional Habitus

Division between academic and vocational education is a predominant feature of both upper secondary and higher education in Finland as well as in many other country contexts. This article focuses on a minority of higher education students, those who have not proceeded to higher education through the traditional academic track but have enrolled through the vocational route. We deploy the concept of institutional habitus and utilize Eurostudent VI survey data ( N=7318) to analyse the backgrounds and study experiences of higher education students with different kinds of educational backgrounds. Our findings indicate that those enrolling through the vocational route are more often mature students from lower parental educational backgrounds. They have often completed a longer study path and began to see themselves as future higher education students later in their life course. There are also differences in how students with diverse educational backgrounds experience their sense of belonging to the higher education community. This paper focuses on Finland but has relevance for other European countries as the institutional structures and practices discussed in this paper are evident internationally.

scholarly journals What makes or breaks higher education community engagement in the South African rural school context: A multiple-partner perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene Gabriel Machimana ◽  
Maximus Monaheng Sefotho ◽  
Liesel Ebersöhn
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
School Context ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Rural School ◽  
Multiple Partner ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Education Community ◽  
Wide Range

The purpose of this study is to inform global citizenship practice as a higher education agenda by comparing the retrospective experiences of a range of community engagement partners and including often silent voices of non-researcher partners. Higher education–community engagement aims to contribute to social justice as it constructs and transfers new knowledge from the perspectives of a wide range of community engagement partners. This qualitative secondary analysis study was framed theoretically by the transformative–emancipatory paradigm. Existing case data, generated on retrospective experiences of community engagement partners in a long-term community engagement partnership, were conveniently sampled to analyse and compare a range of community engagement experiences ( parents of student clients ( n = 12: females 10, males 2), teachers from the partner rural school ( n = 18: females 12, males 6), student-educational psychology clients ( n = 31: females 14, males 17), Academic Service-Learning ( ASL) students ( n = 20: females 17, males 3) and researchers ( n = 12: females 11, males 1). Following thematic in-case and cross-case analysis, it emerged that all higher education–community engagement partners experienced that socio-economic challenges (defined as rural school adversities, include financial, geographic and social challenges) are addressed when an higher education–community engagement partnership exists, but that particular operational challenges (communication barriers, time constraints, workload and unclear scope, inconsistent feedback, as well as conflicting expectations) hamper higher education–community engagement partnership. A significant insight from this study is that a range of community engagement partners experience similar challenges when a university and rural school partner. All community engagement partners experienced that higher education–community engagement is challenged by the structural disparity between the rural context and operational miscommunication.

scholarly journals Virtual Environments in Higher Education – Immersion as a Key Construct for Learning 4.0

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Janssen ◽  
Christian Tummel ◽  
Anja Richert ◽  
Ingrid Isenhardt
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
User Study ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Immersive Virtual Environments ◽  
Technological Developments

<p class="Abstract"><span lang="EN-US">In light of the increasing technological developments, working life and education is changing and becoming more complex, interconnected and digital. These changed circumstances require new and modified competences of future employees. Education has to respond to the changing requirements in working life. To prepare for this, a technological-oriented teaching and learning process as well as gaining practical experience is crucial for students. In this context, Virtual Reality (VR) technologies provide new opportunities for practical experience in higher education, where they can further intensify the students learning experiences to a more immersive and engaging involvement in the learning process. To evaluate the potential of immersive virtual learning environments (VLE) for higher education and to understand more deeply which kind of experiences students gain while learning in immersive virtual environments (VE) an experimental research study is carried out. The paper describes education in light of industry 4.0 first and gives an overall view of immersive learning and the role of VR Technologies. Then the user study to measure user experience (UX) in immersive VLE is presented. Preliminary results are outlined and discussed with a view of further research.</span></p>

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