Mikko MyllymäkiUniversity of Jyväskylä | JYU · Kokkola University Consortium Chydenius
Mikko Myllymäki
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August 2001 - present
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The importance of STEM education is widely recognized.
Despite the value of the sector and good associated
employment prospects, young students generally lack interest
in science and engineering. This is reflected in the difficulty
universities experience in recruiting qualified students for STEM
subjects, which in turn is reflected in business lif...
Education programmes should provide students
with the skills for working life. This is important not only for
students, but also for companies. Skills refers, in addition to
competence in a specific area, to general competencies, working
life practices in common use and, for example, knowledge of
software used in the business world. It is even more...
Distance education has grown tremendously overthe last decade. Internet technologies have enabled a large-scale dispensation of lectures, exercises, and training. VirtualLearning Management Systems (LMSs) offer a number of tools torealize distance education and distance learning. In this work, wepresent a virtual system architecture for training cy...
The education model used in master studies in mathematical information technology at Kokkola University Consortium Chydenius heavily utilizes educational technologies, especially streamed lecture videos and associated practices. The primary goal of the education model has been to make education more accessible by offering students more flexible par...
The aim of the SmartCampus project is to create an environment which enables high-quality, flexible and effective studying, both as traditional face-to-face and online. A focal result of the project is the CiNetCampus environment, developed in connection with the Master's education in mathematical information technology. It increase flexibility in...
This study examines the development of the education model created in connection with the Master Studies in Mathematical Information Technology. The model has developed from the first stage, where there was only face-to-face teaching supported with Learning Management System, to a stage where studying is possible also fully in online and students m...
Digital learning badges offer new possibilities alongside conventional certificates. The Open Badge concept is one of the most common implementations of learning badges in use. The concept was piloted and the services required by it were developed in a project carried out in Finland in 2014. This research highlights the utilization opportunities no...
Education that is in line with the blended model and carried out with the help of videos enables, above all, flexible participation in study. Various participation modes enabled by video are suitable for different kinds of learners. The interaction when studying with videos differs from that in face-to-face teaching. Among other things, videos allo...
Learning takes place everywhere, a lot of it also outside educational institutes. Companies that arrange training related to their products are one of the large education providers. Also the training organized by companies can utilize new technological solutions to make it more effective. A modern solution for adding value to business training are...
For the past few years, the use of video lectures in universities has been on the increase. Production of video lectures will bring flexibility that is needed for study and enable the utilization of pedagogical solutions based on new videos. On the other hand, applications for the sharing and use of lecture videos clearly designed for educational r...
Open Badges is an open source code concept developed by the Mozilla Foundation to identify the learner's knowledge and skills and to display them in a modern way. Although the concept was originally meant to display informal learning, it can also be applied to formal education. Indicating competences electronically makes it possible to display comp...
In traditionally organized education, the education provider also determines the teaching schedules. Education in accordance with the blended model and based on videos can be realized, when so wished, in such a way that the student will be free to decide about his/her time use. In this kind of environment students can still study in accordance with...
In modern societies, learning takes place everywhere, a lot of it also in parallel with the objectives of the curricula of formal education. Traditional certificates produced by formal education are important, but along with these new electronic ways to identify and endorse competence are being created. Electronic ways to indicate learning bring a...
There is a clear demand for lecture videos in modern education. Nevertheless, the desire to keep face-to-face education remains as well. In such a case, the natural option is to produce videos in face-to-face teaching situations rather than in a studio environment. The challenge this kind of production faces is how to make it to cover an entire deg...
Challenges for an organizer of modern education can be met with the help of blended learning. There can be many different starting points and motivations for it. One way to arrange blended learning is to realize it using lecture videos alongside with face-to-face teaching. In Master Studies in Mathematical Information Technology at the Kokkola Univ...
Education providers aim to meet today's education requirements by employing, among other things, education technology solutions that increase flexibility. This has also happened with the master's level mathematical information technology degree directed to adults. In the degree program, lecture videos brought in together with face-to-face teaching...
To carry through a modern degree program often means, that the teaching necessitates, above all, flexible teaching arrangements in which students are individually paid attention to. One good way to meet this challenge is to arrange the education with the help of educational technologies in a form of so-called blended learning. Education for working...
Diversification of university teaching with the help of video lectures has become much more common during the past few years. Once videos have become an essential part of teaching arrangements, whoever organizes the teaching must also pay attention to factors related to videos in quality system work for teaching. In the video production process it...
Lecture videos produced of face-to-face teaching are often successfully used to add more flexibility to teaching. As far as location is concerned, real-time videos enable flexible participation in education, and on-demand videos also make it more flexible timewise. This allows substitution of absences and makes distance study possible. This paper c...
Video technologies are well suited for increasing flexibility of participation in education. On the other hand, use of videos limits the interactiveness of teaching. Studying with the help of videos can be made more effective and meaningful by making distance students' telepresence visible in face-to-face teaching situations and by enabling interac...
Learning style is something that merits consideration when we consider the factors related to study success. This study examines, with the help of the Felder-Silverman model, the impacts of the learning styles of information technology students on learning outcomes in Master's degree program on information technology organized in accordance with th...
Blended learning based on lecture videos and face-to-face teaching provides good opportunities for students for participation in education, regardless of time or place. The article describes a blended learning solution that is based on face-to-face teaching and the use of streaming lecture videos as it has developed in connection with master studie...
Blended learning based on lecture videos and face- to-face teaching provides good opportunities for students for participation in education, regardless of time or place. This article examines the impacts of blended learning, as it has developed in connection with master studies in information technology, on participation in education and on learnin...
Blended learning based on lecture videos and face-to-face teaching provides good conditions for students as far as availability of teaching and participation in education are concerned. Use of lecture videos in higher education is already quite common. Lecture videos are well suited for increasing the flexibility in teaching as they provide a diver...
For some years now, adult education and working while studying have had an important role in the modern society. Mature-age study brings with it some special features, such as time use limitations, which must be taken into account when creating educational programmes for the students concerned. Above all, flexibility must become a major feature of...
Lecture videos have become an essential part of tertiary education and are offered in addition to face-to-face teaching. They bring flexibility to study by enabling students to participate in studies in a multiplicity of ways. Traditionally, participation in teaching by attending lectures has been understood as participation in face-to-face teachin...
An adult working student does not always have the opportunity to study in the way that is typical or natural for him/her. Some of the common reasons for that include the different work and life situations of adult students, which may make it impossible for them to participate in face-to-face teaching. This is often caused by the provider of educati...
In many learning institutes, diversification of teaching with the help of various technologies has become an essential part of educational arrangements. With the increase in the use of networks for teaching purposes, the use of streaming videos is now one of the possibilities to be reckoned with in trying to increase flexibility in studies. Special...
The aim of the University of Jyväskylä is to create a well functioning quality assurance system during 2008. In practice, this means that during that time we will need to devise a manner to develop our activities systematically, in yearly cycles, and in such a way that it covers all the necessary functions and is based on the unit’s own working hab...
Modern society places emphasis on lifelong learning. This creates expectations for education that is as flexible as possible as far as time is concerned. To meet the challenges created by this desire, new solutions in education technology are developed constantly. The central aim of these technologies is to create more flexible and more individual...
Our education program in Information Technology was designed with needs of adult students in mind. The education program consists of solutions typical to contact teaching and distance teaching. Video lectures aimed at adding variety to teaching and recorded during contact teaching periods form an important part of this whole. Development work relat...
During the last years video lectures have been used very actively for diversifying teaching in our computer science program. Video lectures are recorded in a live teaching situation and their use forms the base of our practice, which is developed for the needs of adult-students. This paper examines the use of video lectures in computer science teac...