Presentation for HERE visit, some ideas from Tallinn University

1. Changing the learning culture:
The impact of ICT and
digitalisation
Kai Pata, School of Digital Technologies
HERE Study Visit: Tallinn – 17-19 April, 2016

2. Cross-cutting digital
competences
• Tallinn University has taken cross-cutting approach of teaching
digital competences at the subject-specific courses.
• Every curriculum should provide the digital competences according to
the digital competence framework.
• Teaching the specific digital competences is spread across different
courses of the curriculum and is blended with the subject teaching.
• School of Digital Technologies has developed together with other
Schools courses that blend digital competences with curricula-
specific needs
• A course of Digital competences is provided for students who need to
obtain digital competences.

3. Digital competence
framework roadmap in Europe
• DIGICOMP (2013) - a roadmap framework for developing and understanding digital
competences in Europe
• The areas of digital competence
• Information: Browsing, searching and filtering information;Evaluating
Information; Storing and retrieving information
• Communication: Interacting through technologies; Sharing information and
content;Engaging in online citizenship; Collaborating through digital channels;
Netiquette; Managing digital identity
• Content-creation: Developing content; Integrating and re-elaborating;
Copyright and Licences; Programming
• Safety: Protecting devices; Protecting personal data; Protecting health;
Protecting the environment
• Problem-solving: Solving technical problems; Identifying needs and
technological responses; Innovating and creatively using technology;
Identifying digital competence gaps

4. ISTE digital competences
applied at university courses
Digital competence framework for students,
teachers and administrators in Estonia are defined
by Information Technology Foundation for Estonia
according to International Society for Technology in
Education and DIGICOMP competence frameworks
Tallinn University has taken guidance in courses of
digital competence frameworks provided by
Information Technology Foundation for Estonia.

5. Changing learning cultures
with digital practices
• During last decade Tallinn University has acted as a
leading role-model in shaping university learning
practices with open and social-media based approaches.
• Horizons 6th Framework project iCamp tested cross-
university teaching models with social media.
• Horizons 7th Framework project IntelLEO tested cross
academia - workplace knowledge building and
learning. One of the outcomes was the eDidaktikum
learning environment for interrelating pre-and in-service
learning.

6. eDidaktikum facilitates
competence frameworks
Developed by School of Digital Technologies

7. eDidaktikum supports closing
the loop around competences
Different lecturers
create tasks at courses
Tasks are associated
with competences
Students can plan competence
development in advance selecting
relevant courses
Students complete course tasks
and obtain competences
Students can compile
competence-portfolios
Monitoring realised curriculum
competences in study periods
for groups
Curriculum has defined
competences
Monitoring students progress
in competence frameworks
Monitoring competence gap
between planned and realised
curriculum
Teacher-training curriculum uses
eDidaktikum for most of the courses
enabling tracking students’
competence achievement.
Academic analytics
dashboard yet to be
developed

8. Tasks can be annotated with
several competence frameworks
The course task can be
simultaneously annotated with
the Teacher’s competency
framework and Digital
competency framework
competences

9. Learner can map himself/herself to
different competence frameworks
Learner can select
into the portfolio these
completed tasks that
are associated with
specific competences
drag item to portfolio

10. Learner can get overview of his/her
progress within competence frameworks
Monitoring personal progress regarding competence
frameworks and developing portfolios for accreditation or job
interviews

11. Changing learning cultures
with digital practices
• School of Digital Technologies uses blended teaching with open blog-
based approach and mashup technologies (such as edufeedr.net) for
offering master courses and monitoring students’ progress.
• From the beginning of the master studies the learning-community
formation is promoted among students.
• Students have their own study blogs where they monitor their personal
progress.
• Many tasks are problem-based and require co-creation and
collaboration.
• Since the students attend only weekends, the learning community and
using web-based collaborative tools is extensively used in tasks that
enables developing digital competences.

12. Course blog, EduFeedr blog
mashup and open students blogs
Course blogs
are used
across
several years
and reveal
course
content,
changes
and
generalised
feedback

13. Course blog, EduFeedr blog
mashup and open students blogs
Tasks are given
using mashup
technology that
captures completed
tasks and mediates
peer comments
Developed by School
of Digital
Technologies

14. Course blog, EduFeedr blog
mashup and open students blogs
Students use
different blog
categories for
annotating
completed tasks
at different
courses
Students can
monitor and
formatively
assess each
others’ tasks

15. Changing learning cultures
with digital practices
• School of Digital Technologies has closed the loop
around the cross-sharing innovative digital practices in
schools and in teacher training studies
• The School of DT has run together with ICT industry
projects Digital Turn for changing innovative practices with
digital technologies in whole schools and Erasmus +
project Creative Classroom to enhance innovative learning
scenarios.
• The examples of changes of learning culture in schools
are introduced in pre-service training, such as the course
Educational technology in school.

16. Learning scenario sharing
tool LePlanner
• Together with teachers
the learning scenario
sharing tool
LePlanner.net was
developed that now
contains innovative
digital learning
scenarios developed by
teachers from which
teacher students’ can
learn and take
examples from.
Developed by
School of Digital
Technologies

17. Learning scenario sharing
tool LePlanner
• Each innovative learning scenario describes digital
learning activities together with learning
outcomes in these activities enabling to map how
digital activities develop digital, general and
subject-related competences
• The learning scenario tool will be used in teacher
training courses to help teachers in describing and
sharing innovative digital learning scenarios and
thinking actively of how digital competences can
be developed according to new digital cultures.

18. Changing learning cultures
with digital practices
• In 7th Framework project Learning
Layers the social semantic
technologies for scaling informal
learning at work have been
developed.
• These technologies will be used in
Tallinn University CEITER project for
mapping and sharing the
innovative learning and teaching
practices developed in different
Schools of Tallinn University.
New learning cultures
Discovering practices
and experts
Emerging innovative
practices