KERG — Knowledge Environments Research

Group

Kai Pata & Hans PõldojaTallinn University

Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 25, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia | Phone/fax +372 6409 355 | http://htk.tlu.ee

Tallinn University

• Established 1919

• 8500 students

• 17 institutes and 4 colleges

• 56 BA, 72 MA and 13 PhD curriculums

Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 25, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia | Phone/fax +372 6409 355 | http://htk.tlu.ee

Focus areas

• Educational sciences

• Humanities

• Fine arts

• Mathematics and natural sciences

• Social sciences

• Health sciences

• Film and media

Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 25, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia | Phone/fax +372 6409 355 | http://htk.tlu.ee

KERG research group

• Institute of Informatics

• Centre for Educational Technology

Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 25, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia | Phone/fax +372 6409 355 | http://htk.tlu.ee

Institute of Informatics

• 1989 – Chair of Informatics

• 2001 – Department of Informatics

• 2008 – Institute of Informatics

• Staff 22

• 4 PhD

• 1 PhD student

Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 25, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia | Phone/fax +372 6409 355 | http://htk.tlu.ee

Curricula

• BA: Informatics

• MA: Multimedia and Learning Systems

• MA: Interactive Media and Knowledge Environments

• MA: Teacher of Informatics

• MA: Information Technology Management

• PhD: Educational Sciences (Didactics of Informatics)

Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 25, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia | Phone/fax +372 6409 355 | http://htk.tlu.ee

Centre for Educational Technology

• Established 1996

• Staff 12 (7 researchers and 5 developers)

• 1 PhD

• 5 PhD students

Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 25, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia | Phone/fax +372 6409 355 | http://htk.tlu.ee

Research areas

• Design and architecture of distributed and hybrid learning systems

• Ecological learning design

• Cross-institutional knowledge construction

• Soft-ontology based exploratory tools for community analysis

• Theory of mixed method research

Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 25, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia | Phone/fax +372 6409 355 | http://htk.tlu.ee

Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 25, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia | Phone/fax +372 6409 355 | http://htk.tlu.ee

Current projects

• 7FP project IntelLEO (2009–2012)

• 7FP project S-TEAM (2009–2012)

• eContentplus project iCoper (2008–2011)

• TRF: Distributed learning environments, their interoperability and models of application (2008–2013)

• ESF: Self-directed learning in hybrid environments (2008–2010)

Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 25, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia | Phone/fax +372 6409 355 | http://htk.tlu.ee

Past projects

• 6FP project iCamp (2005–2008)

• 6FP project CALIBRATE (2005–2008)

• DeerLeap (2005–2008)

Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 25, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia | Phone/fax +372 6409 355 | http://htk.tlu.ee

Future projects

• Tallinn Living Lab (mobile city)

Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 25, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia | Phone/fax +372 6409 355 | http://htk.tlu.ee

Development projects

• Learning management systems: IVA, Krihvel, VIKO

• Learning resource authoring platform: LeMill

• Repositories: Waramu

• Assessment tools: TATS, PETS

• Educational portals: Koolielu, KooliPlone

Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 25, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia | Phone/fax +372 6409 355 | http://htk.tlu.ee

IVA is an open source LMS platform

http://www.htk.tlu.ee/iva/

Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 25, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia | Phone/fax +372 6409 355 | http://htk.tlu.ee

LeMill is an international teacher community for collaborative authoring of learning resources.

http://lemill.net

Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 25, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia | Phone/fax +372 6409 355 | http://htk.tlu.ee

• Developing joint industrial doctoral program

• Seminar on design and architecture of distributed and hybrid learning systems

• Doctoral summer school

Ideas for collaboration

Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 25, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia | Phone/fax +372 6409 355 | http://htk.tlu.ee

• Centre for Educational Technology

• http://htk.tlu.ee

Thank you!