INTRODUCTION

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Kirsti Lonka, Olli Niemi, Suvi Nenonen and Niclas Sandström will present the top 10 research findings from Future Learning Environment research and development with inspiration and enthusiasm.

How to co-create campuses: Process, place and service –  together with users

SESSION 1: WORKSHOP

Studenter med nedsatt funksjonsevne er en mangfoldig og voksende gruppe i høyere utdanning.  Hvem har en funksjonsnedsettelse i høyere utdanning, og hvordan skal vi best mulig planlegge læringsmiljøet for å ivareta god tilgjengelighet for alle? Universell utforming av læringsmiljøet vil være det bærende prinsippet for den videre utvikling i årene som kommer. Universell berører både fysiske og pedagogiske aspekter ved læring – til gode for alle studenter – ikke bare de med "spesielle" behov. Denne sesjonen vil diskutere og utfordre deltakerne rundt spørsmål som mangfold, likeverd og inkludering i planlegging av læringsmiljø.

Tilgjengelighet for alle

SESSION 4: PRESENTATION

In this session Pia H. Jensen will talk about how the University of Southern Denmark has implemented their digital exams with students bringing their own devices. Focus will be on some of the technical solutions SDU has chosen to cope with challenges as cheating, digitizing handwriting, distributing assessments a.o.t.
Kicka will talk about the e-exam as "Akvarium-exam" which is the most common model in Finland - providing the flexibility to make an appointment for the exam (within the teachers' given limits) and then write the exam under video surveillance in the school location. Registration online, tests online and evaluation online (if the teacher so wishes). But on a fixed location in college, open at given times.

Freddy Barstad from UniNett will give the status on Norway’s national digital exam project and he will describe what has been delivered so far.

Mats Lindstedt will talk about EMREX - the solution for electronic transfer of student records between higher education institutions in Europe. The project addresses the EU 2020 target that 20 % of higher education students should be mobile. The biggest benefit of EMREX will be the increased availability, quality and reliability of information about student records of achievement information.

Pia H. Jensen

Freddy Barstad

Kicka Lindroos

Mats Lindstedt

SESSION 5: WORKSHOP

Universiteterne tilbyder typisk studerende IT-services i form f.eks. e-læringsplatform, e-mail, digitalt bibliotek mm. Men reelt ved vi meget lidt om, hvilke digitale værktøjer de studerende i øvrigt anvender, når de samarbejder om at tilrettelægge og udføre projekt- og gruppearbejde. En sådan viden kan danne udgangspunkt for eksemplificering af "best practice" til gavn for såvel studerende som deres lærere. På Roskilde Universitet gennemføres i 2015 en kortlægning af de studerendes IT-anvendelse. Workshoppen indledes med en kort redegørelse for de foreløbige resultater af undersøgelsen og lægger derefter op til diskussion af de "digitalt indfødte", som universiteterne på den ene side kan lære af, men på den anden side også er nødt til oplære i hensigtsmæssig anvendelse til akademiske formål af teknologi og services.

PowerPoint præsentation og flipover spørgsmål

SESSION 6: WORKSHOP 

Sumit Pandey and Andrea Gasparini

The talk will outline the need for a UX Strategy at a leadership level for all service and user centric organisations and shows the value of UX as a competitive advantage. It will demonstrate how we can make use of the existing service expertise and cross functional teams within organisations like the library, and use Design Thinking tools to augment (and not replace) their current work paradigms. Furthermore, it will give a longitudinal perspective on UX, emphasizing the need for constant evolvement, user research and ethnography for enhancing the user experience of the library.

User Experience as a strategic tool for service and user centric organizations

SESSION 7: WORKSHOP

A follow-up of the keynote speak about the top 10 research findings from Future Learning Environment research and development.

Olli Niemi and Suvi Nenonen

SESSION 8: GUIDED WALK

Guided walk at Aarhus University campus with a particular focus on the architecture and its impact on the development of good learning environments.

SESSION 9: WORKSHOP
PLEASE NOTE: THIS WORKSHOP WILL BE PART OF SESSION 4: DIGITAL EXAMS - EXPERIENCES

EMREX is the solution for electronic transfer of student records between higher education institutions in Europe. The project addresses the EU 2020 target that 20 % of higher education students should be mobile. The biggest benefit of EMREX will be the increased availability, quality and reliability of information about student records of achievement information.
The EMREX field trial aims at testing new ways to make the administration of student mobility easier and thus promoting higher attainment level to student mobility in higher education and also encouraging more effective recognition of prior learning and avoiding overlapping studies. In the first phase the transfer will be set-up between four Nordic countries and Italy.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

The aim with my presentation is to discuss space in higher education in relation to interaction, with a special focus on agency and re-design. I will discuss how we can understand campus space becoming a place for learning. How are students and teachers interacting using the resources afforded by a room? My presentation will also focus on physical and virtual spaces in higher education and I will present some results from an ongoing study on interaction in a hybrid and flexible learning environment.

Campus space

Our presentation is based on an ongoing campus development project, "Vision 2060", at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). We discuss how campus development can contribute to sustain and develop universities as attractive places for learning and knowledge development in a future of increased competition in research and higher education, exemplified with our experiences from campus development at NTNU.

Future learning environments

SESSION 1: WORKSHOP

In the workshop we will discuss and elaborate on how to ”hack rooms in a higher education campus setting”. Together we will brainstorm on ways to use the constraints and affordances of three rooms to create and design active learning environments.

SESSION 4: PRESENTATION

The presentation will cover the concepts of Interactive Spaces developed at the Department of Computer Science at Aarhus University. This includes a range of physical, spatial and movement based interaction techniques with focus on learning and training. Examples will range from interactive floors for children's learning through movement in schools, over training installations for ball sports, to industrial training and instruction via Augmented Reality. The examples will be put into the perspective of developing support for a range of subjects in high education.

SESSION 5: PRESENTATION

This mini lecture will present the digitalization programme at The University of Bergen. The purpose of the programme is to improve the quality of the students‘ learning by making the learning environment digital.
The programme is called “DigUiB”. With this programme The University of Bergen (UiB) establishes a long-term focus on digital solutions for education. We shall establish a digital teaching arena for academic and educational goals.
Through the programme we want to facilitate new learning methods through for example the use of a flipped classroom approach.
Digital learning tools provide new opportunities for better learning through stimulation of multiple senses and through increased student activity. In addition, digital learning tools make room for variation in teaching and learning approaches for both staff and students. By means of the DigUiB programme, UiB will increase the use of digital learning tools through sharing good examples, providing specific services and provide training and support in the use of tools in teaching.
A significant part of UiB‘s investment in establishing Media City Bergen together with the main Media Companies in the region, is the development of a learning laboratory. The lab will be a resource centre that works to make tomorrow‘s digital solutions for education, research and dissemination available to staff and students at the university.
In addition, the DigUiB programme also offers technologies and support for Digital teaching; giving staff and students new ways to learn. The development of a new learning platform is also a part of this, together with offering solutions for digital assessment, implementing procedures and test systems for digitalization of assessment processes and examinations. A focus area is also all the legal issues concerning the use and spreading of digital material used in teaching, and developing guidelines for implementation of digital examination.

The DigUiB programme –  digitalizing learning support at The University of Bergen

SESSION 6: PRESENTATION

Hur skapar vi hållbara lärandemiljöer i praktiken? Två arkitekter och en socialantropolog från White Arkitekter, Skandinaviens största arkitektkontor, delar med sig av sina omfattande praktiska erfarenheter. I projekten, som omfattar övergripande planering och stora såväl som små projekt, möter vi tydliga, återkommande tendenser och utmaningar. Genom konkreta exempel beskriver vi våra arbetsmetoder för att anta dessa utmaningar, med siktet inställt på att skapa attraktiva, hållbara lärandemiljöer som möter dagens och morgondagens behov.

From campus planning to the learning environment with a focus on sustainability

SESSION 7: PRESENTATION

During the last five years Turku University Library has undergone several profound changes. Their aim has been to reorganize the library – the staff, premises and workflows – in such a way that the customers’ needs steer everything that is done. The result is a new library service concept created by listening to the voices of research community and students. The overall cost-effectiveness of service-production has also been taken into account.  The presentation illustrates how all this was done and how the new service-concept has been received by library users, staff and university administration.                                                                                                                     

Reorganising library services in Turku university library – new user experiences for students and staff

SESSION 8: PRESENTATION

Linköping University is planning a new building, ”Student building Campus Valla”. This new building combines services from four divisions in the same house: IT, student services, sustainability and library. The challenges are many: How to combine an open environment with security for the books, how to manage channeling matter, not the student, should it be a digital or a physical reception, how does flexibility in both furnishing and IT solutions for new pedagogics function, etc.

Student house Valla

Video: Linköping University

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Students enter the university with the main goal of completing a higher education. In order to succeed, the environments must support learning and well-being. Student in Focus has been a strategic focus area at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) since 2011. Student in Focus addresses both student learning, student life, services and administration – a holistic approach. To facilitate high learning outcome a lot of environmental elements must perform optimally – regarding both academic, virtual, physical, psychological and social study environments. Both students, teachers, administrative staff and the management are important players to improve learning environment. Examples from SDU are learning technologies, learning rooms and laboratories, career management skills, traditions and events, entrepreneurship, first year study experiences, feedback, student services and communication.

The student in focus – a holistic approach to learning environments

PLATFORM DISCUSSIONS

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Video from Jónina Kárdal

CLOSING SESSION

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