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The SEIS team (Mohammad Khalil, Kairit Tammets, Terje Väljataga) has launched a special issue call on Supporting Student Learning and Engagement through Analytics. Learning Analytics is an emerging interdisciplinary research field that has received great attention. Learning Analytics is grounded in the research of computer and data science where students’ data can be used for […]

Jussi Okkonen, Iiris Tuvi, Daranee Lehtonen, Vallery Michael from Tampere University participated in one of the largest and well known educational technology show in Europe, Bett UK. More than 20 000 people visited it, 400+ solution providers participated and 50+ countries were represented. As numbers show, it is a huge event, where one could easily […]

Liyanachchi Mahesha Harshani De Silva and Merike Saar are going to talk about their PhD thesis on Monday 21st, at 09:00-10:30 (CET) here: https://zoom.us/j/91976369742. Mahesha is going to talk about “Towards a Participatory Institutional Analytics Agenda for Addressing Student Dropouts in Higher Education” and Merike about “Supporting teachers in teacher inquiry: an analytics model and […]

Reet Kasepalu and Pankaj Chejara are going to present their PhD research. Reet is going to talk about “Insights from Using Collaboration Analytics in an Authentic Classroom”. Pankaj is going to talk about “Automated estimation of collaboration quality using Multimodal Learning Analytics”. Welcome here: https://zoom.us/j/91976369742

Writing camps – some days outside of the everyday environments, a few people in a similar situation around you, supporting you, thinking together with you, providing feedback, helping you to take your mind away for while from your work, no other obligations, only your writing task – have become very popular and efficient among PhD […]

On December 15th we organised our second annual advisory board meeting. Considering the pandemic situation the meeting took place again via Zoom. In addition to short presentations of our ongoing activities the main focus was on three discussion points: In which direction do you think that educational innovation should go/is going? Where should research go […]

Iiris Tuvi discussed our new project proposal at MEC in Lapland. On 28 Sept – 1 Oct Media Education Conference (MEC) took place in Lapland and Iiris Tuvi from Tampere University presented the result of our co-operational work on the CHANSE project proposal. The proposal and the talk at conference was titled „The EdTech Observatory: […]

On October 6-7th Tallinn University together with the International Association for Mobile Learning and SEIS project team hosted virtually a 20th World Conference on Mobile, Blended and Seamless Learning. Mohammad Khalil was invited to give a keynote talk on Harnessing Learning Analytics with Mobile Learning: Opportunities and Challenges.

The SEIS project team has started a series of research seminars for early stage researchers. The goal of the series is to learn more about the research topics in Tallinn University, provide feedback to early stage researchers and initiate discussions on relevant topics in the field of educational innovation. First presenters were: Kadri Mettis, who […]

On September 29th 2021, Jussi Okkonen from Tampere University was invited to give a talk “Living labs as vehicle for co-development of edtech” at the final event of the university – edtech-school cooperation programme in Estonia. The goal of the programme was to bring together university researchers, school teachers and edtech companies to co-develop educational […]