Kirsi Syynimaa

• Master of Education
• Researcher at University of Jyväskylä

The focus of the present study is to investigate university students' views on the scripted computer-supported collaborative writing method. The study presented in this article was conducted at one Finnish university and one Belgian university. A total of 91 university students were randomly assigned to small groups of three to five members. All gr...

The application of digital game-based learning (GBL) methods has lately received more attention in higher education (HE). An extensive body of previous investigations has recognised the potential of instructional games to advance the learning of appropriate work life skills. However, there seems to be a lack of understanding in the current literatu...

Hyvinvointi, osaaminen ja yhteisöllisyys digitaalisissa työympäristöissä Kirsi Lainema Tutkijatohtori, Kauppatieteiden tohtori Jyväskylän yliopisto kirsi.lainema@utu.fi Raija Hämäläinen Kasvatustieteen professori, dosentti, Kasvatustieteen tohtori Jyväskylän yliopisto raija.h.hamalainen@jyu.fi Kirsi Syynimaa Projektitutkija, Kasvatustieteen maister...

Extant research has identified the significance of technological affordances in computer-supported learning environments. However, until recently, there is scarcely empirical research on affordances for organizing collaboration in these learning environments. To address this gap, this study empirically examines affordances for organizing collaborat...

Tiina Lämsä (Ph.D.) has a Ph.D. of education and she is a qualified early childhood education and care (ECEC) teacher. She has been focusing on the questions of arts based research, visual and digital methodologies in childhood studies and cultural research, pedagogy and curriculum development, sustainable learning and educational leadership in the...

When employees become accustomed to everyday working habits it can prevent them from generating creative ideas. This familiarity takes the forms of mainly collaborating with familiar colleagues, playing roles that develop over years, and solving encountered problems with proven strategies. This chapter considers how a virtual enterprise simulation...

Analysis of the applicability of a learning technology requires an evaluation of how the affordances of the learning environment respond to users’ needs. We examine affordances in a simulation-based collaborative learning environment from the learners’ viewpoint. Our analysis focuses on three types of affordances: technological, organisational and...

Abstract A collaboration script is a set of instructions used to improve collaborative learning among students in technology-enhanced environments. Previously, university students’ perspective has been under-represented in the study on collaboration scripts. In this article, we focus on understanding students’ experiences in a scripted collaborativ...

Previous research has identified a well-established link between teachers' beliefs and the practical implications of technology-enhanced learning (TEL). Until recently, there have been few studies of teachers' beliefs regarding their own role as developers of TEL in higher education. In this study, 18 university teachers' reflective writings on the...

Learning in cross-cultural institutions and e-Learning environments is becoming increasingly significant as higher education institutions cooperate more globally. The purpose of this study is to describe joint e-Learning efforts between universities from Finland and Russia aiming at development of cross-cultural distance education. In this paper a...