Flipped, online and blended learning: digitalization in TAMK
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.3311/ope.153Abstract
This paper describes the digitalization in education from teacher’s point of view. The emphasis is not on the administrative software nor on the learning management systems, but rather on little simple tools any teacher can start to use in her or his own teaching in small scale. The selection of tools and methods are based on their usage in Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) and rely largely on this paper’s writer’s own experiences. As such, this paper is not intended to have full coverage of all possible tools and software, but rather offers some examples in the digital tools in education. Most of the tools are free for a single user or has minimal cost to the user as far as the student groups are not very large. Naturally, the tools and methods themselves are not the main issue – they have to be used and adapted and used in a pedagogically meaningful way.Author Biography
Sami Suhonen
Dr. Sami Suhonen is a principal lecturer and head of physics department at Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) and he has over 19 years of experience in teaching. In addition to teaching, he is developing teaching methods and materials and coordinating physics studies in engineering degree programs. Sami Suhonen, together with his team, has renewed physics teaching at the university level, which earned him and his team TAMK’s “Pedagogical Act of the Year”-award in 2014.
The key concepts of the development work have been: activating learning methods, learning by doing, peer instruction, flipped classroom and online learning. This far, his team has produced over 1000 educational video clips to support face-to-face studying and to be used in online courses. Sami Suhonen has volunteered to work as a “digimentor” in his work community. Collaborative learning of new skills and new applications is important for faculty members and a digimentor aims to support colleagues in difficult aspects related to digitalization, e-tools, online pedagogy etc.
