12.1.2019 14:41
Digital open badges are gaining popularity as a means of identification and recognition of competences acquired differently. At the same time, new ways to motivate, scaffold and assess competence-based learning processes in professional development are emerging. In her doctoral dissertation, M.Sci. Sanna Brauer examines vocational pre- and in-service teachers different ideas, views and experiences of digital open badge-driven learning in professional development of digital pedagogical competences. The study is the first European doctoral dissertation to address digital open badges and digital open badge-driven learning.
14.12.2018 10:14
In her doctoral study Hannele Keränen, MEc, examines the fusion of two Finnish universities of applied sciences through the viewpoint of ethical agency. The paper belongs to the field of management and organisation studies.
30.11.2018 14:00
Tomi Knuutila’s (M.A. Arts and Design) doctoral dissertation entitled Qualities of Simplicity in Designing Interactive Art belongs to the field of interactive design. It contributes new knowledge about user and design experience of interactive art through practice-led design research.
22.11.2018 15:31
Maarit Kinnunen’s article-based dissertation constructs a model for total festival experience.
6.11.2018 11:06
The challenge brought to the forefront of arts-based research in human contexts is to value and constantly re-examine the relationship between the storyteller and the listener, and between the knower and the knowledge. Daria Akimenko’s study attempts at mapping a research field where the complexity of identities, narratives, contexts, places, and practices is embraced rather than simplified. It employs arts-based and reflexive approaches to research, working in a landscape of six global communities of place and practice and aiming at academic, artistic and general public audiences.
2.11.2018 14:00
Yiyun Zha’s doctoral thesis suggests how the practices of visual journalism are varied due to significant media alterations in recent years. Therefore, it focuses on how design professionalism can be understood in news websites and how in-house visual journalists’ work and organizational cultures change in the process of visual transmediation. The common ground of the different findings of this research is that media facilitation and media convergence has an enormous influence on the visual information structure as well as visual practitioners’ daily routines and practices.
16.5.2016 16:26
The so-called commercial seal hunt as carried out on the Canadian East Coast has for many decades been labelled as cruel, inhumane and unnecessary. As a response to public pressure and campaigns to shut down the hunt, the European Union adopted a regime in 2009 effectively shutting down the EU’s internal market for products stemming from seal products other than indigenous communities. In his doctoral dissertation MA Nikolas Sellheim shows how the regime disregards a science-based approach.
30.11.2015 10:13
The legal culture of protecting fundamental rights and human rights has faced changes in phases as a result of accession to the European Convention on Human Rights. A new cross-scientific doctoral research of M.Pol.Sc, MA Virpi Koivu indicates, however, that the transition of legal culture is still not complete.
23.11.2015 13:59
In his thesis MA (Dipl. Des.) Markus Schröppel focuses on producing guidance aid for large, shared spaces through graphic design. The results of the study and the corresponding solutions and recommendations can be used to avoid problems in confronting icons and guidance systems. The presented solutions, with the array of methodologies and the focus on the user, enable us to efficiently check and evaluate the functionality of existing sign systems.
19.8.2015 13:30
In African countries, the indigenous languages have been shadowed by the English language. Even in post independent period, many African countries still use their colonizers’ languages in their official transactions and deliberations, as well as media of instruction in their schools. MA Osei Twumasi Ankrah’s research established that the use of mother tongue would be essential in the Ghanaian education.