Join Staff Academy webinar and Education Lab webinars in May to learn from your colleagues

The Staff Academy webinar on 5 May focuses on co-operation and co-creation in education. Joint Education Lab projects showcase their projects journey and successes in Education Lab webinars on 7 and 12 May. All INGENIUM staff and people from outside our organizations are welcome to join these webinars.

Co-operation and co-creation in Staff Academy on 5 May

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. In May we focus on co-operation and co-creation.

The webinars unfold on Zoom and are hosted by the South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences (Xamk). Please register through the link below to get the link to join the may webinar. As a speaker please remember to also register as a participant for the webinar. https://xamk-fi.zoom.us/meeting/register/GGc7DeMHRZ2HKHEf4AP9-w

Read more about the speakers and their topics below.

Laura Hokkanen: From Eureka to Action: Flipped Learning in Game Education for Youth Work

This session explores the course Game Education in Youth Work implemented at South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences (XAMK). The course is designed as a “Eureka game”, inspired by the story of Archimedes. Its central aim is to develop functional solutions to nine real-life challenges provided by professional youth work partners. Students work in teams to design and prototype solutions using pedagogical approaches such as coding, urban adventure games, and educational escape rooms. Contact teaching is fully dedicated to collaborative, game-based problem solving, while theoretical backgrounds are studied in advance through pre-recorded materials in accordance with flipped learning pedagogy. The presentation introduces the pedagogical design of the course and reflects on practical experiences gained from implementing a flipped, game-based model in youth work education.

Laura Hokkanen is a Lecturer in the degree programme of Civic Activities and Youth Work at South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences. Her main fields of teaching are art education, media education and game education. Her academic background is in cultural studies, and she actively uses storytelling as a teaching tool.

Rosie Dempsey. More information to come.

Joint Education Lab Projects showcase their projects on 7 and 12 May

Now it’s time to get to know the projects from the second Joint Education Lab Projects call. Each project talks about their results in a 20-minute presentation, followed by questions and discussion.

You can join the webinar at any time, so if your schedule is busy, but you are interested in a specific project, you can join the webinar only to hear their presentation.

INGENIUM Education Lab launched a Joint Education Lab Projects initiative to promote joint innovation projects. This initiative aims to fund collaboration between different faculty, educators, and RDI specialists in two or more INGENIUM universities to develop advanced teaching methods, micro credentials, courses, and educational products.

See the schedule and read more about the projects and speakers below. Register to the webinars and come to learn how your colleagues have been co-operationg through INGENIUM!

    Thursday May 7 | 12:00-13:30 CEST 

    Register to the webinar here

    FACULTY DEVELOPMENT MOOC – Rethinking Inclusive Assessment and Feedback for Inclusive Learning

    Phase 2 focused on the launch and early implementation of the University of Crete–led MOOC Rethinking Inclusive Assessment in Higher Education: Assessment as Learning in the Age of AI. Building on the earlier co-design work of the INGENIUM Education Lab, this phase moved from collaborative development into institutional approval, platform delivery, and participant engagement.

    The programme was formally approved by the Senate of the University of Crete as an 8 ECTS asynchronous faculty development course within the INGENIUM European University Alliance, designed as a self-directed online learning experience that combines expert video lectures, multilingual transcripts, scholarly readings, formative quizzes, guided reflection, peer-coaching, and an applied educational action research project.

    Website https://elearn.ingenium-university.eu/course/index.php?categoryid=8

    The project is now in an important implementation phase. The MOOC has already been launched, and 78 participants are currently active in the course. This marks a significant transition from collaborative planning to real pedagogical uptake across the alliance. What began as a joint effort to rethink assessment and feedback has now become a live faculty development initiative with international reach and concrete participation.

    Kallia Katsampoxaki-Hodgetts, University of Crete (Lead)
    Thomas O’Mahony, Munster Technological University
    Oana Elena Colt, Technical University of Iasi, Romania
    Cai Weaver, South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences
    Judit Vari, University of Rouen, France
    Simeon Slavchev, Medical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
    Mariano Pierantozzi, Unich, Italy

    This session will introduce you to the Team Based Learning (TBL) approach and how it can help to facilitate impactful, engaging online delivery and thus promote Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL). The presentation discusses the authors’ experimentations with TBL in Ireland, Finland and Sweden and how it can be implemented using the Ingenium learning management system. The presentation will also discuss how features of TBL can make it particularly relevant for helping students to reflect on intercultural communication and their collaboration skills.

    This session may be of particular interest to those who wish to:

    – design for online/blended Ingenium programmes, BIPs and other COIL experiences.

    – develop effective hands-on solutions for intercultural & international learning.

    – embed transversal skill development within Ingenium or other curricula.

    – incorporate “internationalisation at home” within Ingenium or other programmes.

    Presenters are Mikhail Nemilentsev (Xamk) and Dave O Hanlon (MTU).

    This Joint Education Lab project, co-created by the University of Rouen Normandy and Xamk, addresses the critical need for versatile, scalable gamification in higher education. We have developed Hotel Celestia, a decision-based audio escape game where students step into a sci-fi narrative to resolve realistic workplace crises. Rather than solving abstract puzzles, students must explicitly apply specific management theories to navigate supply chain strikes, AI malfunctions, and HR dilemmas. Having undergone five rigorous iterations across contact, remote, and hybrid environments with active student co-creation, the project delivers a proven, highly adaptable framework to foster flipped learning and interdisciplinary knowledge transfer across the INGENIUM alliance.

    Presenters are Mercedes Bravo Rebolledo Permanent Teaching Associate (University of Rouen Normandy) and Niama Meziati, 3rd Year BA student (University of Rouen Normandy).

    Tuesday May 12 | 12:00-13:30 CEST 

    Register to the webinar here

    The INGENIUM Science Outreach Collaborative Exchange (SOCE) education lab is a dynamic initiative designed to foster inter-university collaboration in science outreach. The project engages in this collaborative environment, Chemistry Outreach Group, COG (https://www.chemistry.uoc.gr/cog-eng/) from the University of Crete (UoC) and the ARENA research group from the Departments of Functional Biology and Education Sciences of the University of Oviedo (https://arena.grupos.uniovi.es/presentacion).

    During the project, the two teams visited each other’s universities sharing best practices to strengthen students’ science communication skills. Participation in educational and inclusive events, engaging in discussions about educational systems of both countries, delivering science outreach lessons and seminars, and meeting with colleagues and other teams to explore potential collaboration opportunities were some of the activities implemented during the project.

    This collaboration established in the SOCE educational lab, provides a foundation for developing a course focused on helping students effectively present and communicate scientific results through contemporary channels. In addition, the preparation and submission of joint proposals create a valuable pathway for sustaining and further developing the partnership in the future.

    Presenters are Maria Fouskaki, Laboratory Teaching Staff, Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, Greece and Prof. Eduardo Dopico, Department of Education Sciences, University of Oviedo (Asturias-Spain).

    This intensive, practice-oriented Micro-Credential introduces health professionals to the theoretical foundations and practical tools required to design evidence-based health promotion programmes. Developed jointly by UNIOVI, XAMK, and MUS as the first pilot Micro-Credential of the INGENIUM European University Alliance, the course equips participants with a systematic understanding of the key behavioural models underpinning health promotion and guides them through the full cycle of designing a health promotion intervention, from problem identification to evaluation planning.

    Presenters are Ruben Martin Payo (UNIOVI), Sari Laantera (XAMK) and Simeon Slavchev (MUS).

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