Hello all! It's been a while since my last blog post...I was busy collecting material and taking photos to show you how we study here at the Business School of Åbo Akademi University!
In this first picture, you can see a photo of a typical learning situation. Instead of traditional lectures and exams, we work with real-life projects and companies. The theory is applied on practical cases and team work is an essential part of the process. In this photo, a group works on a task and searches for information:
Today we also did some brainstorming. PostIt paper tags are an effective way to organize a large amount of information and to find the interdependence between concepts and words:
Our students are also encouraged to illustrate their learning process with pictures. Here, we were working on an innovation project. The problem that needed to be solved was the tree trunk, and the branches and leaves represent the different solutions to the problem:
Best wishes from Turku/Åbo,
Maria
In this first picture, you can see a photo of a typical learning situation. Instead of traditional lectures and exams, we work with real-life projects and companies. The theory is applied on practical cases and team work is an essential part of the process. In this photo, a group works on a task and searches for information:
Today we also did some brainstorming. PostIt paper tags are an effective way to organize a large amount of information and to find the interdependence between concepts and words:
Our students are also encouraged to illustrate their learning process with pictures. Here, we were working on an innovation project. The problem that needed to be solved was the tree trunk, and the branches and leaves represent the different solutions to the problem:
Best wishes from Turku/Åbo,
Maria
It is interesting to take part of your teaching activities. I think that your pedagogy and method is quite similar to James Burnett, in this blog. That is fun, he in Australia and you from Finland, and me observing from Sweden!
ReplyDeleteHi Ingrid, thanks for your comment! I will go and take a look at what James is doing! :)
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ReplyDeleteHi. I see that you are working on several olicka way to get the best possible education for your students . I am really happy to see how to carry out tasks in different ways ! Do you use a lot of paper and pens, or the most part using electronic aids ?
Hi Lina, thanks for your question! We still use a lot of paper and pens, too. Maybe they help the students to start creating something better than just a screen. But electronics are definitely an everyday tool as well. We have the rule "BYOD" = Bring Your Own Device. At least someone in every group needs to take a device (a phone, a tablet, a laptop - anything to use the internet with) to class every time.
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