Levanger, Norway – In a remarkable display of international cooperation and linguistic diversity, the OWL+ Consortium, composed of members from the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Estonia, and Latvia, recently concluded their 2nd OWL+ event. The event, which took place on Monday, September 25, 2023, was organized and hosted by project partners at Nord University. The primary… Continue reading OWL+ Consortium Hosts 2nd Multiplier Event in Levanger, Norway
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Study results – Cooperation between teachers would help with distance learning
The results of the distance learning study, conducted by Centre for Educational Technology in spring 2020, indicate that distance learning increases the number of students with learning disabilities and for the better arrangement of schoolwork, it would be good if teachers coordinated their work and gave tasks in advance. According to Kairit Tammets, a senior… Continue reading Study results – Cooperation between teachers would help with distance learning
Erasmus+ project ENROPE – bringing together junior researchers from various disciplines involved in language education research
Tallinn University is one of the partners in the project ENROPE – European Network for Junior Researchers in the Field of Plurilingualism and Education, coordinated by the Humboldt University of Berlin. The Centre for Educational Technology has the leading role in developing an Online Platform for researcher collaboration. The project aims to provide high-quality qualification… Continue reading Erasmus+ project ENROPE – bringing together junior researchers from various disciplines involved in language education research
Project GLAT started
The Tallinn University Centre for Educational Technology is part of a consortium running the GLAT (Games for Learning Algorithmic Thinking) project. University of Rijeka is coordinating the project that will be implemented in Croatia through collaboration with Tallinn University, University of Ljubljana, South-West University “Neofit Rilski” (Bulgaria) and St. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje.… Continue reading Project GLAT started
Erasmus+ project “Design thinking in Higher Education – DesignIT” has started
The Center for Educational Technology of the School of Digital Technologies, Tallinn University is coordinating the Erasmus+ project DesignIT – Design thinking in Higher education (1.09.2017 – 31.08.2019) The project aims at developing entrepreneurship competences in Higher Education by creating the gamified technology enhanced approaches for using design thinking in the student projects, thereby enhancing… Continue reading Erasmus+ project “Design thinking in Higher Education – DesignIT” has started
Learning and Training in the Age of Smart Industry / 14-15 September 2017 / Tallinn University
Industry and academia representers are meeting on September 14-15 at the Industry Track of the European Conference on Technology Enhanced learning to exchange ideas regarding the social aspects of Industry 4.0. The topics will include the workplace of the future, motivating workers, workplace learning, knowledge sharing and new tools, and how competencies ignite innovation. The… Continue reading Learning and Training in the Age of Smart Industry / 14-15 September 2017 / Tallinn University
Samsung Digi Pass – Training Programme of the Year 2016
Congratulations! Our project Samsung Digi Pass was named as the Training Programme of the Year 2016 by the Tallinn University Open Academy (Project Manager: Jaanika Hirv, Centre for Educational Technology). The aim of Samsung Digi Pass was to help vocational school students to develop digital and social competences which are nowadays necessary in every job.… Continue reading Samsung Digi Pass – Training Programme of the Year 2016
Warm Kick-off of a Cool Project – IC-Health
For the Centre for Educational Technology, January brought along a kick-off of another exciting research and development project: IC-health. The official starting meeting of the project took place from 23-24 January in the sunshine of Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife. “Improving digital health literacy in Europe — IC-Health” or just “IC-Health” for short is a… Continue reading Warm Kick-off of a Cool Project – IC-Health
EC-TEL 2017 in Tallinn!
Centre for Educational Technology and Centre for Educational Innovation will host together the next EC-TEL (European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning) 2017 conference in Tallinn. Conference takes place 12-15 September at the Tallinn University campuses. Important dates: Full Papers, Short Papers, Posters & Demonstrations: 3 April 2017 – Mandatory submission of an abstract 10 April… Continue reading EC-TEL 2017 in Tallinn!
PhD defence, Martin Sillaots
Martin Sillaots defended today his PhD in educational sciences 15th of December 2016. Martin’s PhD research was about gamification: “Creating the Flow: the Gamification of Higher Education Courses”. PhD was supervised by Professor Mauri Kaipanen and enior researcher of the School of digital technologies – Kai Pata. Dissertation is available online (ETERA)