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Transactions: WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON ADVANCES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION
Transactions ID Number: 28-334
Full Name: Rauno Pirinen
Position: Professor
Age: ON
Sex: Male
Address: Säterinrinne 8 B 37
Country: FINLAND
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E-mail address: rauno.pirinen@laurea.fi
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Title of the Paper: Synthesis of Learning by Developing and Virtual Learning Case: Laurea's Network Design Specialisation Studies
Authors as they appear in the Paper: RAUNO PIRINEN, JYRI RAJAMÄKI
Email addresses of all the authors: rauno.pirinen@laurea.fi, jyri.rajamaki@laurea.fi
Number of paper pages: 11
Abstract: Specialisation studies are an efficient and flexible way of completing and updating professional knowledge, since the multi way of learning also suits the timetables of those who work and study simultaneously. In this design-science research, a new innovation in adult education, 'Network Design Specialisation Studies' is executed and evaluated. The theoretical background consists of Learning by Developing (LbD), expansive virtual learning and virtual empowerment, and adult learning. Laurea University of Applied Sciences' strategy is to integrate its three statutory tasks of education, research and development, and regional development by utilizing its LbD model. Laurea's Network Design Specialisation Studies splice virtual learning and LbD. Virtual learning includes virtual lessons, exercises and examinations, but its main innovative part is a virtual laboratory with a virtual laboratory engineer. Laurea's new virtual learning environment plays a remarkable role of!
developing the competences of each individual learner, while the LbD concept steers the entire specialisation studies. This study shows that LbD and virtual learning support each other. Utilizing Web 2.0 technologies in the future, Laurea's innovative learning environment could be a part of global expert communities. This may lead to the materialization of the virtual empowerment, influencing the development of the future society during the next decade.
Keywords: e-Learning, Higher Education, Learning by Developing, Virtual Empowerment, Virtual Laboratory, Virtual Learning
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Special (Invited) Session: Linkage of Learning by Developing and Virtual Learning Case: Network Design Specialisation Studies
Organizer of the Session: 598-242
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