Exploring three unique aspects of makerspaces (Interdisciplinarity; Authentic real-world problems; Flexible learning arrangements) and how they could be best taken advantage in education and training in the future. Input to the Creative Campus online workshop of the Creative FLIP Learning Labs program. Report: https://europa.eu/!xG98yQ

1. Makerspaces
for
Education and Training
Creative Campus online workshop
March 24 2021
Dr. Riina Vuorikari
Human Capital and Employment (B4)
European Commission, Joint Research Centre
https://europa.eu/!xG98yQ

2. Three unique aspects of makerspaces for education and
training
Interdisciplinarity
Making activities
naturally combine
disciplines that are
traditionally taught
separately
Authentic real-world
problems
Individuals acquire new
knowledge and create
meaning from
experiencing with
making activities
Flexible learning
arrangements
A diversity of flexible
learning arrangements
created thanks to informal
ways of social interaction
in makerspaces, e.g. peer
learning and mentoring,
peer coaching

3. • An authentic makerspace “brought” into a school or a
training centre. Informal community of like-minded
people in a spirit of exploring, tinkering and sharing.
Learning as an incidental outcome.
• Making activities linked to educational learning
outcomes & curriculum subjects (e.g. STEAM).
Through open-ended exploration, students discover
the concepts the teacher intended them to learn.
Learning becomes more intentional.
Types of makerspaces in E&T

4. Makerspace Maker program
Intentional learning
Incidental learning

5. Makerspace Maker program
Intentional learning
Incidental learning
No link with intended learning outcomes
No link with intended learning outcomes
Maker program
Makerspace
Link with intended learning outcomes
Link with intended learning outcomes
Makerspace Maker program

6. • Can keep citizens involved in societal and
technological developments so that they can keep
abreast with the world around them — but also actively
shape it!
• A stepping stone back to more formal learning
activities
• Can provide pathways for employment, for example,
through validation of non-formal and informal learning
Makerspaces for Lifelong learning

7. • Making activities in curriculum can support and foster
explicit learning activities and well-defined learning
outcomes.
• Secures equity through allowing all learners to
participate and benefit from such activities.
• Suitable for competence-based education and for
addressing European Key Competences for Lifelong
Learning.
Makerspaces for formal education

8. An overview of existing concepts and
practices to develop creativity as a
transversal skill for Lifelong Learning
https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/creativity-transversal-skill-
lifelong-learning-overview-existing-concepts-and-practices-0

9. Thank you
https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/research-topic/learning-and-skills
Riina.Vuorikari@ec.europa.eu
https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/