Formally informal learning

Naive Position Paper

Aus Fehlern wird man klug (English: We learn from our mistakes). To kick off my Master Thesis, I wrote a – from where I stand today – very naive position paper in 2009, describing some of the findings of the Nokia.Expand … Continue reading

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Nokia School Communicator

With the Nokia School Communicator project, the Nokia Research Center aimed to design a low cost and robust hand-held learning device, similar to the One laptop per child, for children in Nokia’s emerging markets, such as India, China, the Middle … Continue reading

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Film post-production learning tool

As part of the Visual Innovations for Inclusive Projects with Diverse Participants (VIPP), lead by Antti Raike and funded by the Academy of Finland (2008-2010), we prototyped a digital learning tool to support collaborative team work during the post-production process … Continue reading

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iTEC

Our paper “Design Research on Media Tools for Reflection in Learning” was accepted to the Design for Learning conference in Copenhagen, 25-27 April 2012. More information later! . . iTEC (Innovative Technologies for an Engaging Classroom) is a four-year, pan-European project … Continue reading

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Nokia.Expand

Nokia.Expand was a project realized during the Product Development Project course held at the Aalto Design Factory from September 2008 to April 2009. The project was sponsored by Nokia and D-Switch, and realized by students of the Aalto University School … Continue reading

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Design for Change Finland

Design for Change (DfC) is a worldwide school contest that originated from Kiran Bir Sethi’s Design for Giving project, in Ahmedabad, India in 2007. In collaboration with DfC, Aalto Social Imapact and UNICEF Pavan Ramkumar, Anne Mandel, Riita Toivonen, Sara Park … Continue reading

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Mobile Word Game

During a one week workshop by Jürgen Scheible at Media Lab Helsinki, Kristine Visanen and I created a working prototype of a mobile word game. In the game, learners arrange a random set of words into meaningful or playful sentences … Continue reading

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