Sides from the kick off session of the IMPDET-LE workshop in August 2013

1. IMPDET-LE Kick Off
Workshop
Jarkko Suhonen
School of Computing
University of Eastern Finland
August 5, 2013
jarkko.suhonen@uef.fi

2. INTRODUCTION TO edTechΔ
RESEARCH GROUP AT SCHOOL OF
COMPUTING, UEF
http://www.uef.fi/edtech

3. Numbers – edTechΔ
5 Senior researchers
> 20 PhD students
Extensive international collaboration
network
Over 8 M€ of external funding (since 2001)
In average 23 peer-reviewed publications per year
(since 2001)

4. Research@ edTechΔ
Open &
Distance
Learning
HIV/AIDS
Educatio
Computer
Science
Education
Educationa
l Games
Leadership
Story
Telling &
Text
Mining
Semi-
automatic
assessment of
essays
SURA YA
UKMWI – The
Faces of AIDS
Jeliot Mobile games
in museums,
UFractions
1) Minining
opinions of
customers via
Social
environments
2) Automatic
analysis of
customer
feedback
Smart
Design
Participatory,
Strength-based
design
methods,
Intercontextual
design
NETAIDS in
Uganda
Contextualised
IT Education,
Social tools in
collaborative
work/distance
learning
Hypercontextu
alised game
design
Sentimental
analysis -
Detecting
emotions in
texts

5. SURA YA UKMWI – The Faces of AIDS
http://www.surayaukimwi.com/

6. Jeliot

7. Mobile game example 1: Bagomoyo Caravan

8. Mobile game example 1: UFractions

9. Tools for special education children – The
CASCATE project
Symbol recognition
Story telling
Modelling
Physical gaming

10. International Annual SciFest - Festival of Science and Technology
http://www.scifest.fi/home_en.php
Outgoing activities - SciFest

11. Upcoming dissertations
1. Designing Text Mining-Based Competitive Intelligent System –
Yue Dai
2. Data Mining in Robotics Class Room – Ilkka Jormanainen
3. Robotics with Special Education Children – Marjo Voutilainen

12. IMPDET-LE STUDIES

13. The main research interests
1. Fresh computing innovations in education
1. Digital story telling & narratives in education
2. Learning analytics - novel text mining and data mining
applications in education
3. Smart design: agile, participatory, inclusive and inter-contextual
design methods in educational technology, Bottom-up & creative
approaches
4. Technologies for children with individual needs

14. Study requirements in Computer Science - 1
•Doctoral dissertation
– Article-based dissertation
• Part I: Introduction
• Part II: 5-6 published papers in peer-reviewed scientific forums (conferences,
scientific journals and book chapters)
– Monograph
• Needs to be included references to 5-6 published articles
– List of suggested journals in edtech

15. Study requirements in Computer Science - 2
2) Course work
– 30 ECTS
• 4 ECTS General postgraduate studies
– Scientific writing
– Scientific presentation skills
• 26 ECTS Research specific studies
– Online and campus-based courses, individual scholarly tasks and
learning activities, online research seminars, presenting a paper in a
scientific conference etc.

16. Applying
•Computer Science students apply to ECSE – East Finland Doctoral
Programme in Computer Science and Engineering
•Deadlines: February 28, May 31, August 31, November 30
•Application documents
– Filled out application form
– Copies of your Master's degree certificate and transcript of academic
records. If the degree certificate is awarded by another university than
University of Eastern Finland, the copies must be certified
– Research proposal
– Study work plan
– Prove of English proficiency in the case of foreign applicants

17. English language requirements
•Foreign applicants must prove their English language proficiency
by any of the following language tests
– PTE (Academic), minimum of 59
– TOEFL, minimum PBT 580 and in writing minimum of 4 / IBT 90 and
in writing minimum of 22
– IELTS (Academic), minimum overall score 6.5, in writing minimum of
5,5
• The English language test is not required for applicants who have
completed their previous higher education studies in English OR taken the
matriculation examination in English language in Finland (IB degree or
English as A1 language) OR conducted their secondary education in
English
• An official statement given by that institution and indicating that the
medium of instruction of the previous studies has been English must be
included to the application