InnoEdu - Education with Innovation InnoEdu, an InnoSchool co-project, is co-ordinated at the University of Helsinki Center for Research on Teaching. InnoArch research team: Professor Leena Krokfors and Professor Seppo Tella (Responsible Directors) Erja Vitikka, M.A. (Educ.) (part-time Project Manager and full-time researcher) The aim of InnoEdu is to create a shared conceptual language that contributes to the construction of local and global understanding of teaching and learning processes within and across diverse educational settings. InnoEdu documents, examines and disseminates the transcultural variations of pedagogies and theories that are manifested via digital video cases, ethnographic interviews and document analysis in teaching, studying, learning and communication environments enhanced with information and communication technologies. InnoEdu studies modes of formal, non-formal and informal pedagogical processes in physical and virtual environments. The aim is to • model the mediating processes of these modes; • empower teachers and teacher educators to combine these pedagogical processes; • reconstruct the curriculum theory to generate new innovations; and • construct a model for joint pre-and in-service teacher education. The research will proceed in three steps: (1) evaluation of the ‘status quo’ of the pilot schools by looking closely into some key concepts and conceptions of pedagogy; (2) finding new patterns of teaching, studying, learning and communication by analyzing the status, roles and responsibilities of learners and teachers from a number of perspectives, such as pedagogical, technological, media-educational and communicational; (3) By adopting a transdisciplinary approach towards the pedagogical processes that are the prerequisites for future learning environments InnoEdu aims at developing a cutting-edge rationale for innovative educational opportunities as well as designing, creating and maintaining the transversal infrastructure to underpin the other three InnoSchool co-projects. The outcomes of InnoEdu include: • new knowledge creation instruments for future consortium-based activities • new methods and modes of practice for teachers and teacher educators • theoretically-justified and empirically-tested study designs and novel pedagogically-sound teaching–studying– learning–communication (TSLC) models • case study reports to stakeholders and decision-makers • innovative modes of incorporating traditional and novel learning methods into the TSLC process • collection of video clips geared towards exemplifying best practices • designing and disseminating new pedagogical practices and an educational rationale for the Future School concept, • the finalized transdisciplinary Future School Concept put forth for societal purposes, and • a co-authored meta-analysis of the results highlighting the Top Ten Best Practices to be recommended to the Partner Institutions and Business Partners as the Ultimate Future School Concept Recommendations.

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