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Welcome the Sino-Finnish Joint Learning Innovation

Institute

May 16, 2016 Ministry f Education and Culture

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The Sino – Finnish Joint

Learning Innovation Institute University of Helsinki

Hannele Niemi


“Learning Garden” The Ministry of Education of China and The Ministry of Education and

Culture of Finland”, signed on June 2015

the “Memorandum of Understanding Concerning the Sino-Finnish Joint Learning Innovation Institute

President Dong, Beijing Normal University and Rector Jukka Kola, University of Helsinki,

signed on 16 November 2015

Agreements


Hannele Niemi PhD, Professor of Education

former pro Vice-Rector u The Academic Committee member for China

Cooperation at the university of Helsinki

u Chair of the Finnish Board of Directors for The Sino-Finnish joint learning innovation institute

- Responsible for teaching and learning


The Sino-Finnish joint Learning Innovation Institute

UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI THE COORDINATOR OF THE INSTITUTE IN FINLAND

BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY IN CHINA

5 CENTERS

(2016-)


•  Sino-Finnish Learning Research Innovation Center Education research and applications

Sino-Finnish Learning Garden Experience Center

the Chinese and Finnish enterprises in education research and development.

•  Sino-Finnish Teacher Training Center

Professional teacher training – Pre service and in-service •  Sino-Finnish Education ICT Center

Innovative digital solutions in education •  Sino-Finnish Double/Dual Degree Center (college)

two-year double/dual MS degrees

5 Joint centers


The Sino-Finnish Joint Learning Innovation Institute

from the Finnish Perspective

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UH Aalto

Tampere Turku

UE Jyväskylä

Oulu

Lapland

Pori

Universities of Technology, No teacher education All other Universities have BA + MA programs for Teacher education

Universities in The Sino-Finnish Institute


u Professor Hannele Niemi, University of Helsinki

u Adjunct Professor Cai Yuzhuo, University of Tampere

u Dr. Ari Korhonen, Aalto University

u Professor Riitta-Liisa Korkeamäki, University of Oulu

u Professor Eija Kärnä, University of Eastern Finland

u Professor Jari Multisilta, Tampere University of Technology, Pori Unit

u Professor Risto Rinne, University of Turku

u Director Elise Tarvainen, University of Jyväskylä, Global Operations,

Educluster Finland subsidiary of University of Jyväskylä

u Professor Tuija Turunen, University of Lapland

Secretary, Research Assistant Pauli Peräinen

The Finnish Board of Directors


u Learning form each other u Systematic and sustainable collaboration in all centers u Joint research projects, joint data, joint publications,

conferences, knowledge sharing u Multidisciplinary approach: learning, brain, technology u Finland have very high level teacher education,

providing pre- and in-service courses, also Finnish national cooperation in course supply

u Teacher and student exchange


The Sino-Finnish joint Learning Innovation Institute from the Finnish

perspective


u  Annual conferences -> creating a community of many actors in Finland and China

u  Quality assurance should be integrated in all activities of the centers

u  The Institute as a platform for the collaboration between Finnish researchers and companies

u  Common understanding on quality assurance and marketing aspects (i.e. supply and demand, pricing)

u  Planning the participation to conferences as early as possible because of the schedules of busy professors

u  Technology may be used in all the collaboration to save the resources

u  Sharing info about events, conferences and webinars through the Institute (UH web page?)

u  Event calendar to the web


The Finnish Board March 15 Suggestions for all centers


u Long term funding u What kind of resources partners will have in China

and Finland u What is the role of BNU as the national coordinator

in China? The role of the University of Helsinki u Promoting innovations u Exporting Finnish education - quality assurance: u Providing and identifying each Universities strengths


The Finnish Board March 15 Issues into consideration / challenges


1   Been done already: Current projects, new openings

2   Aims and plans for the future: Concrete steps

3   Risks and challenges to be taken into consideration:

4   Responsibilities in implementations: Who? How?


Aims for discussion about centers


§  Cover all the levels, fields, disciplines of education (i.e. basic, higher, vocational)

§  QA for education cooperation §  Joint workshops and conferences for exchanging ideas in research

methods (face to face and in distance) §  Conferences focused on specific subjects (i.e. teaching computing) §  Conferences with different tracks focusing on special issues. §  Teacher and research exchange program / exchange visits also to

classrooms for comparative research §  Joint publications §  Research methodological teaching through technology (i.e. MOOCs,

coding) §  Using webinars §  Networking


Sino-Finnish Learning Research Innovation Center

Suggestions from the Finnish Board


•  Joint publications (University of Turku, University of Tampere and University of Helsinki)

•  Collaborative research projects (Please send more info on these for Pauli Peräinen). University of Helsinki collaborative projects: http://blogs.helsinki.fi/sino-finnish-collaboration-edu/collaborative-projects/ and more to come…)

•  BNU Delegations in University of Helsinki (UH) in August and September 2016 •  Doctoral students and short term researchers from BNU to UH, joint research

projects of UH and BNU •  Preparation for participation to the August comparative conference in BNU 2016

(al least University of Turku (UTU) is participating) •  Sino-Finland higher education forum at the University of Tampere (UTA) •  Collaborative lecture series with Chinese scholars, also available online (UTA) •  Partnership and cooperation between Chinese Education Research and

Exchange Centre (CEREC), Univeristy of Tampere and Finnish education research center (FERC), Beijing Normal University: See more activities of CEREC at www.uta.fi/cerec , Gu Mingyuan visit last year,

•  Professor Gu – Professor Niemi dialogue as a part of the visit (UH, UTA) 23/05/16 15

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Sino-Finnish Learning Research Innovation Center – already going on


§  Getting researchers to work together with enterprises §  Producing pedagogically relevant material in collaboration with

companies §  Making technology more relevant and high leveled in

pedagogical perspective §  Getting startup companies to interaction and cooperation §  Integrating actors of education with ICT-companies §  Arranging events for collaboration between the educators and

companies (everyone may think companies that could be invited to the events)

§  Getting XEdu acceleration center for startups at UH to work with Chinese partners

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Sino-Finnish Learning Garden Experience Center - the Chinese and Finnish enterprises



Been done already: u  Academic partnership between University of Jyväskylä (Educluster)

and Chinese actors (Shanghai, Beijing & Chengdu) arranging short term training courses

u  UTA is having collaboration on many levels (also vocational), several collaborative efforts and training programs: BNU, Ministry of Education, Regional areas &Masters degree program in English on teacher education.

u  UH and BNU Action plan 2016 for short and long term courses u  Beijing Institute of Education (BIE) have asked course offers from

Finnish Universities. (shared with board members). Educluster and University of Helsinki have submitted their bids to BIE

u  UH has submitted 7 course descriptions to BNU in 2015


Sino-Finnish Teacher Training Center - Professional teacher training

Finnish enterprises suggestions from the Finnish Board


u Collaborating through technology, peer collaboration among students, bilingual trainers as a resource

u A collaborative model should be developed for all the Finnish providers for collaboration with Chinese partners.


Sino-Finnish Teacher Training Center - Professional teacher training


Strong teacher education in Finland

Early Childhood Kindergarten and preschool Elementary (1-6 grades) Secondary (7-9 and high school ) Adult education

UH 44. In the QS (World University

Rankings 2015).

Documents

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