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 Sustainable development of teaching and learning environments – developing the Ingenium Learning Spaces Learning Community
12:20-12:30 Discussion
12:30–12:50 INVEX (International VR-Experience)
12:50–13:00 Discussion
13:00–13:20 IoT-Driven Environmental Monitoring for Innovative Sustainable Education (IT-EMISE)
13:20–13:30 Discussion
Register to the Webinar
https://xamk-fi.zoom.us/meeting/register/xBfB9j__TcKU3hFEUQtyWQ
Registered persons will receive a confirmation email with the joining link.
Projects in this webinar
Sustainable development of teaching and learning environments – developing the Ingenium Learning Spaces Learning Community
The “Sustainable Development of Teaching and Learning Environments – Developing the Ingenium Learning Spaces Learning Community” project brings together Munster Technological University, Ireland (MTU), University of Skövde, Sweden (HiS), South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences (XAMK), and Technical University of Iași, Romania (TUIASI) in a collaborative exploration of learning environment development through complementary methodological lenses. Through a series of online meetings featuring virtual campus tours, presentations, and cross-institutional dialogue, culminating in a site visit to MTU Ireland for campus visits and a seminar on “the third place” – the social threshold spaces where informal learning and community-building occur between formal educational environments – the partnership has developed a multifaceted framework integrating MTU’s person-centric stakeholder engagement model grounded in social justice, identity, and empowerment principles; XAMK’s scenario-based visioning methodology using workshop-generated personas to conceptualize future learning environments; HiS’s participatory action research approach yielding both theoretical frameworks and concrete spatial implementations; and TUIASI’s critical interrogation of the tension between architectural iconography, heritage preservation, and the creation of “spaces of radical openness” that challenge rather than merely accommodate learners. This Education Lab project addresses the complex interplay between physical space design, pedagogical practice, organizational culture, and stakeholder participation, recognizing that sustainable learning environment development requires not only innovative spatial solutions but also continuous engagement with the communities who inhabit, transform, and ultimately give meaning to these spaces.
Each member of the team, Peter Fogel (HIS), Matti Strengell (Xamk), Ancuta Rotaru (TUIASI) and Katie Power (MTU) will share the presenting for the webinar.
INVEX (International VR-Experience)
As part of the EU4M Master’s program (of the ingenium universities Skövde, UNIOVI and Karlsruhe), students have the opportunity to study in Gijón (UNIOVI), Spain. To promote the program, a simulator is built that enables a virtual surfing experience on the beaches of Gijón. The initial mechanical setup and the infrastructure for data collection (360° videos + acceleration data) have already been developed in Germany. Data collection is carried out in parallel by students in Spain. In addition, students in Sweden set up VR simulation models for the optimization of the surfing experience. Finally, all partners contribute to the function of the systems making students experience the work in an international project.
Speakers: Prof. Enrique Ruiz Zúñiga, University of Skövde; Prof. Alberto Garcia Martinez, UNIOVI; Prof. Martin Kipfmüller, Hochschule Karlsruhe
IoT-Driven Environmental Monitoring for Innovative Sustainable Education (IT-EMISE)
