CICERO GLOBAL CAMPUS LECTURE SERIES 2008-2009

CICERO Global Campus Lectures are free of charge and everyone is welcome to attend!

General information about the lecture series
CICERO Learning will be organising a series lectures on theories and methodologies of learning at the University of Helsinki in the academic year 2008-2009. The first three lectures will take place at the University of Helsinki in October 2008, December 2008 and February 2009.
Each lecture will consist of presentations by distinguished researchers from the field of learning, normally one Finnish academic and one from abroad. After the presentations there will be sufficient time for a Q&A session with the audience. The Global Campus lectures are aimed at students and staff alike. The lectures are free of charge and everyone is welcome to attend with no prior registration required.

The motivation for the lecture series
The latest decade has offered many new entries in the research and theories on learning and consequently in research methodologies. The traditional schools of learning have welcomed new kinds of thinking. Socio-cultural and socio-cognitive studies target the same emerging issues creating new research openings and discourses. Learning is studied as social and situated –or as cognitive and knowledge –based phenomenon. The aim of this lecture series is to offer a deeper insight to the issues of learning from theoretical, methodological and also practical view. The lectures will demonstrate how internationally acknowledged researchers set their theoretical and methodological boundaries, and how they see the application of their research in educational practices in schools, working life or in other societal settings.

The realisation of the lecture series
All lectures will be filmed and broadcast on the CICERO Learning website as they happen. The video clips will be available for viewing on the website afterwards as well. This is done to ensure a wide audience for the lectures regardless of people’s geographical location and the ability to attend in person. This is also a way of continuing the theme of interactivity within CICERO events.

In order to gain as much as possible academically from the lectures, there is a list of recommended reading for each lecture. The reading material will offer background information on the topic of each lecture and will help students to acquire in-depth knowledge in the field of learning research and especially methodologies of research.

Accreditation
Each student taking part in CICERO Global Campus lectures needs to agree with her/his teacher on how she/he can claim credits prior to the lecture. CICERO Learning recommends, that each student can gain from two to three study credits for a well prepared critical essay which includes personal views on both presentations. More credits could be gained if a concise literature review is submitted at the same time. Please note that each student will need to arrange this with their own teacher as CICERO Learning is not a teaching unit.

For more information please contact:
Preferably via email: cicero()cicero.fi

Phone:
+358 9 191 20642 (Administrator Mirkka Juntunen)
+358 9 191 20614 (Project Assistant Hector Nystedt)
+358 9 191 20641 (Coordinator Raija Latva-Karjanmaa)

We hope that you enjoy CICERO Global Campus lectures!

Professor Kristiina Kumpulainen
Director of CICERO Learning

Raija Latva-Karjanmaa
Co-ordinator of CICERO Learning