edtech@uef - ict-based education to make a difference
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Presentation slides of Dr. Jarkko Suhonen at X International Interdisciplinary Scientific Research Congress (X CIC), June 12-14, 2014, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.TRANSCRIPT
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edTech
ICT-based Education to Make a Difference
http://www.uef.fi/edtech
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Learning technologies for contextualized education
Expertise1
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Example: Mobile Games for contextualised education
• Museum education• Science education in Forestry, Mathematics
and Science Fair• Tourism
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Story based mobile game for mathematics: UFractions
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ICT for Development
Expertise2
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Long term R&D projects in Africa
• Contextualised IT Bachelor Degree Programme in Tanzania
• Robotic and tangible technologies based education in Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique
• Staff and student exchange programme: NSS Business Informatics on the Ground
• edTech Hub at Dar es Salaam • PhD student training and research capacity building
• College of Business Education
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Human Language Technologies
Expertise3
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Example: Text mining in business and education
• Business intelligence to support eLeadership• analysis of own brand vs. competitor’s
• evaluating product popularity
• automatic mining of customers’ opinion from social media (prototypes for Facebook, Twitter)
• Emotion detection and Sentiment Analysis• social media
• learning diaries
• cyberbullying detection
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Science and Technology Dissemination
Expertise4
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Example: SciFest.fi – Festival of Science and Technology
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edTech Hub at Dar es Salaam
• Co-operation between University of Eastern Finland (UEF) and College of Business Education (CBE)
• Aim: improve the quality of teaching and learning, and nourish the development of research in CBE
• Serves also as a platform for other collaboration
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Motivation
• Most Tanzanian HEI’s focus mainly on undergraduate education, especially in IT related fields, while research outputs are generally low
• Faculty members are mostly master’s degree holders• Faculty members are heavily loaded with teaching and
administrative duties
=> lack of support for research and a shallow research culture
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Solution
• Set up a doctoral training school hosted jointly by UEF and CBE
• Five CBE faculty members are given postgraduate training on-site
• The PhD candidates form a research group, which focuses on the research topic of Business Informatics
• The PhD candidates study at the UEF edTeach-group’s impdet.org online doctoral programme
• The first phase of the initiative is scheduled to last four years, during which the first batch of 5 faculty members is expected to graduate
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Research topics addressing societal challenges
• Empowering women entrepreneurs in Tanzania through mobile technologies
• Technology for enhancing the small scale farming community. The case of Chamwino district, Dodoma, Tanzania.
• Transforming street vending business using mobile technologies in Tanzania
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Long term goals
• Sustaining a fully functional research group at CBE• Hosting a number of contextually relevant research projects
• Attractive for local and international academia
• Connections with local and international business
• A steady stream of internationally recognized scientific publications
• Understanding about best practices for supporting the growth of research culture in a Tanzania HEI
• Creating a global edTech Hub network
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Current activities and contact
• Launch event of the edTech Hub, Dar es Salaam, June 25th
• Want to collaborate, co-create, co-educate and do joint research in Tanzania?• Do you have interesting research ideas?
• Business ideas?
• Want to visit Tanzania for fun?
• Contact: Dr. Mikko Apiola, [email protected]
• Are you interested in hosting an edTech Hub in your country/region/institution?
• Dr. Jarkko Suhonen, [email protected]
• Dr. Calkin Suero Montero, [email protected]