COVID-19 crisis forces people to slow down, stay at home, and keep social distancing. At the same time, the crisis becomes a catalyst for educational institutions and pedagogic communities to rapidly cope with changing requirements in distance learning. Innovative, scalable and flexible solutions are demanded to keep run learning, teaching, and assessment. From a critical point of…
We are currently going through a very difficult situation with the new coronavirus hovering above our heads and changing the world as we know it. As a result, the worldwide market is going to be completely different when this threat is over. However, it is not going to change entirely. The worldwide market is already…
ViSuAL is a Video-Supported Education Alliance between six Higher Education Institutions (from Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland, Finland, Estonia) and six educational technology companies (from Portugal, England, Finland, Switzerland). EAPRIL is an associated partner organisation in this Erasmus+ Knowledge Alliance project (2018-2020). ViSuAL project has been introduced in EAPRIL conferences. Last year in Estonia there was a spotlight symposium…
Digitisation affects not only industry, but also learning – this will constitute the primary focus of the EAPRIL 2020 conference. The venue is the University of Applied Sciences in Kufstein, Austria – in the heart of the beautiful Tyrolean Alps. This year’s EAPRIL conference invites researchers, experts, and practitioners from all over the world to…
At a time when Estonian school children have reached the top of the 2019 PISA[1] league tables in several categories, it was interesting, but disturbing, to hear that increasingly Estonian teachers believe that their profession is not valued. During an EAPRIL keynote session in Estonia, November 2019, Dr Ali Leijen, Professor of Teacher Education at…
At the EAPRIL Conference 2019 held in Tartu – Estonia up to 500 participants were encouraged to reflect on the theme of “Meaningful learning in different settings”. Meaningful learning, which is considered to involve a critical and deep learning approach, and being rich in creating links and connections, has often been set against rote learning.…
EAPRIL Cloud 8 Diversity & Equality in Different Contexts organised an online conference titled ‘Diversity in educational organizations and corporations: opportunities and dilemmas for improving learning’ on Friday September 27, 2019. The event was an opportunity to share and discuss research findings, progress with on-going projects, policy developments and good practice around the conference theme.…
On Friday October 11, 2019, up to 30 researchers participated in an interactive and in-depth discussion on “Action Research in Organisations”, organised by EAPRIL’s Clouds 11, 13 and 14. More specifically, via a fishbowl set-up, the following aspects were of discussion. The objective: What are the goals and aims of action research in organisations? Goals…
WINNER 2019 BEST RESEARCH & PRACTICE PROJECT AWARD Imagine for a second that you are a music director and at the very moment you move the baton the most beautiful music is performed by musicians with different backgrounds, mindsets, beliefs, and personalities. Isn’t the latter an accurate analogy of how the symphony of learning should…
NOMINATED PROJECT FOR THE 2019 BEST RESEARCH & PRACTICE PROJECT AWARD “Competence Oriented Teaching and Learning in Higher Education – Essentials” What is the essence of good teaching in contemporary higher education? To answer this question, a small self-study guide for higher education teachers with a focus on outcome orientation and learner orientation was produced.…
“TEACH your students • to DOUBT, • to THINK, • to COMMUNICATE, • to question, • to make MISTAKEs, • to LEARN from their mistakes, and most importantly • have FUN in their learning” Richard Feynman`s quote In the Institute of Biomedicine, University of Eastern Finland (UEF), Kuopio, Finland, as one of the flag-ship young…
EAPRIL Cloud 8 (Diversity & Equality in Different Contexts) is organising an online conference titled ‘Diversity in educational organizations and corporations: opportunities and dilemmas for improving learning’ on Friday September 27, 2019. We invite all those interested in equality and diversity in educational organizations and corporations to join us online. The event is an opportunity to…
