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Event: Engagement in Online Learning and Teaching

Dates: Friday, 28 October 2022

Time:  12:15

Venue: Room MKS414, Level 4, MAKS Building

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Online learning and teaching can be tricky if one does not plan and set the ways of communication and interaction. When teachers had to shift to online teaching because of the pandemic a couple of years ago, in Turku UAS, some professors were more than ready to operate online as there have been three degree programmes completely online since 2017.

The intention of this seminar is to share some good practices based on experiments, feedback and development from Turku UAS online degree programmes. The online degrees have offered new possibilities for students to participate from all over the world as well as to combine studies and working life. However, it has been our experience that is is quite easy to quit studies and not participate, if one feels lonely and estranged. To prevent that, studying online should have interactive and social elements, just like in the face-to-face studies. Therefore, Ms Järvipetäjä will focus on student engagement, co-operation and interaction. These elements are both very important and probably most questioned in online learning. She will try to answer the following questions:

• How does one engage students in online learning during online meetings and independent work?

• How does the lecturer encourage and set the framework for communication and group work?

• How is social interaction included in online learning?

About the speaker

Milla Jarvipetaja (M.Soc.Sci) is a Senior Lecturer and Research Group Leader at Turku University of Applied Sciences. She has nearly 25 years of work experience in managing and executing projects in creative fields. Media education and curriculum development are her core expertise areas: she has taught media project management for ten years and operates as a developer in Future Learning Design team at TURKU UAS. Järvipetäjä has significant experience in developing curricula, course syllabi and online pedagogy, both in Turku UAS and in international projects. She operates as Innopeda expert trainer and is strongly involved in pedagogical products export. Her research is currently focused on the career paths of journalism and communication students.

Admission is free, but kindly reserve a place by sending an email.