As the holiday season approaches we welcome you to the festival of webinars!
During December in this special edition of Staff Academy webinars the Joint Education Lab projects are showcasing their projects!
Throughout the academic year, INGENIUM organises several public Staff Academy webinars where there are 1–3 short case presentations on cutting-edge teaching practices, followed by a lively discussion and Q&A session. The webinars unfold on Zoom and are hosted by the South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences (Xamk).
Preliminary Schedule
12:00–12:20 COIL course, “Tackle Real Work Life Challenges.
12:20-12:30 Discussion
12:30–12:50 Investigating Norman Cistercian Influences: A Cross-Cultural Exploration Between Normandy and Abruzzo
12:50–13:00 Discussion
13:00–13:20 Shared experimentation between European universities of the “L’Ascolto” project and implementation of AI in the “L’Ascolto” web platform.
13:20–13:30 Discussion
Register to the Webinar
https://xamk-fi.zoom.us/meeting/register/P-SNuP_pSI6ZoV9cd7uTQA
Registered persons will receive a confirmation email with the joining link.
Projects in this webinar
COIL course, “Tackle Real Work Life Challenges
This COIL course project is led by Mariya Loginova from Xamk. Xamk is partnering with UNIOVI, MTU, URN, TUIASI in this project. They are developing and testing the Ingenium COIL course, “Tackle Real Work Life Challenges.” This course, in collaboration with local companies, provides students with real-world challenges. Teachers will act as coaches, guiding international, multilingual student teams through problem-solving processes, enhancing their practical skills, and preparing them for global workplaces.
Students will engage with business representatives, work in multidisciplinary teams, and develop problem-solving abilities. Teachers will facilitate learning and support student teams to ensure successful outcomes. The course also aims to foster networking among all parties involved: company representatives, students, teachers, and RDI specialists, creating a new model for international cooperation among Ingenium partners. The outcome will be a tested course and cooperation module. The process will be documented and an article published in an international scientific journal.
Investigating Norman Cistercian Influences: A Cross-Cultural Exploration Between Normandy and Abruzzo
This project offers students a unique, hands-on experience with medieval cultural heritage. By visiting Cistercian abbeys and the State Archive of Siena, students engage directly with both architectural monuments and historical documents. The program combines field trips, guided analysis, lectures, and creative activities such as photo and video contests for a webinar. The aim is to enhance students’ understanding of medieval history, archival research, and cultural context, while promoting active learning and collaboration. The project highlights the value of experiencing historical sources in person, beyond digital tools, and serves as a model for experiential learning in cultural heritage education.
Maria Carreri (Ud’A), Mario Marrocchi, Marcella Lacanale , and Gabriella Gente Magnan will be present at the webinar.
Shared experimentation between European universities of the “L’Ascolto” project and implementation of AI in the “L’Ascolto” web platform.
This project is led by Ida Verna from G.d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara. MUS and Xamk are also joined in the project. Their goal is to experiment with the L’Ascolto project between European universities and to implement AI in the L’Ascolto web platform. The L’Ascolto is a web platform whose objective is the creation, management and sharing of knowledge by education actors (teachers, students, institutional bodies and other stakeholders). The creation of such knowledge is the result of a holistic approach to teaching-learning processes, based on a framework that combines the Deming cycle with the QFD Quality Function Deployment and Kolb’s experiential learning cycle. The aim of the L’Ascolto Approach is to enable teachers, students and institutional bodies to use the same methodological approach to teaching improvement (innovation), with a single web platform. Although the actors of education use the platform at different times and in different ways, they work towards the common goal of educational innovation, with the same language (Listening Framework: constructive alignment combination of Biggs, Bloom, Dublin Descriptors, Deming Cycle, Kolb’s experiential learning). The creation, management and sharing of knowledge is the output of a continuous cycle of planning, management, evaluation and improvement of all teaching processes (Curriculum and individual teaching considered as a whole), while these are in progress and for the benefit of all actors:
TEACHERS: development of teachers’ professionalism (ENQA, 2007; OCDE, 2012; EC, 2013; EHEA, 2020) through their continuous self-training, the result of the knowledge-sharing process (best practices) among all the teachers using the platform;
STUDENTS: enhancement of learning (EC, 2017; ENQA, 2020; EHEA, 2020) implemented thanks to the promotion and drive for innovation that the holistic approach feeds into the Deming/Kolb cycle (Verna, 2020) and that the platform manages and shares among the actors, in terms of knowledge/competences;
COURSE COORDINATORS: development of academic leadership, implemented thanks to the knowledge-sharing system that provides continuous feedback (listening to needs) to the coordinator for the improvement/innovation of the teaching processes designed, managed and evaluated as a single system in continuous evolution.
L’Ascolto is ultimately a pedagogical model for experiential learning for teachers, students and institutional bodies.
