ViSuAl Project: Using Video-Supported Collaborative Learning in teacher education and vocational education

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…

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EAPRIL 2020: “Learning in the Age of Industry 4.0”

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…

Teacher Agency in the light of increasing Teacher Stress and Burnout

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…

Meaningful learning through the eyes of practitioner researchers

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.…

Action Research in Organisations

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…

MusicMath presents: The Symphony of Learning

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…

In Search of the Holy Grail

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.…

If you PLAY SMART, will YOU be MORE?

“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…

Cloud 8: ‘Diversity in educational organizations and corporations: opportunities and dilemmas for improving learning’ online conference on 27/09/2019.

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…

CLOUD 10 Assessment & Evaluation: On the road to Tartu! (2/4)

Testing, grading. A lot of our professional time is spend on it. A lot of literature has been written about it. And even within EAPRIL a cloud is dedicated to it. This is our second blog from this cloud. Looking at the literature, we realized that a lot of it was of a prescriptive nature.…

Greetings from Cloud 9: A Three-Cloud Seminar/Webinar “Innovative teaching approaches – EAPRIL clouds in a research-based dialogue”

The EAPRIL Clouds create us a fascinating possibility to discuss and collaborate, not only during the conferences, but also in-between them. This blog reminds you about the possibilities of Cloud 9, but also aims to offer you a pathway to observe the connections of several clouds, to enrich our comprehension. At the moment, Cloud 9…

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