This document summarizes a case study on blended learning at Tampere University of Technology, Pori Unit in Finland. The university implemented blended learning to increase student enrollment numbers and improve the school's finances. They developed video materials and online courses using MOOCs and flipped classroom techniques. After two years, blended learning has been successful - student numbers and the school's finances improved, and students and teachers responded positively. The university is continuing blended learning development through the KASKU project, which tests new techniques like recording classroom lectures and developing online exam rooms.

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Towards Blended Learning:
A Case Study
Petri Linna, Harri Keto, Timo Mäkinen
Tampere University of Technology,
Pori Unit

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Finland, Pori
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CONTENTS OF PRESENTATION
• Background
• CASE
– Blended learning
– MOOC
– Results and conclusions
Projects now and future
– KASKU-project
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Background
Why blended learning?
• Over two years ago:
– The need to raise the number of student applicants
– The need to get Pori unit economy better
– The main campus demanded actions
– To get better time and space support for students
– Teachers’ own keen on developing things
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What did we do?
1. Student marketing were permitted blended learning
2. Plans were made move to blended learning
In reality
• the schedule was very tight (a few months)
• co-determination negotiations (lay-offs)
• no deep knowledge of the blended learning
• resistance to change
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After two years experiences
• The raised numbers of student applicants
• The Pori unit economy is better
• The main campus is following our fast development
• Good time and space support for students
• Very good feedback from students (specially math)
• Resistance to changes is disappearing
• Large development project (KASKU-project)
• A lot of video materials
The transfer to blended learning has been successful!
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MOOC
• Massive open online courses
• Free online course
• Usually thousands of students in same course.
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MOOC - expanding blended
learning
In our case, there were found four ways to apply MOOCS:
1. A third-party MOOC implemented standard course
directly
2. MOOC replaces a standard course for international
students
3. MOOC implements a course of which the content is not
completely fixed
4. MOOCs or their modules are used as parts of standard
course
In case was seen that flipped classroom and MOOC
together would be promising pedagogical approaches.
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KASKU-project
• Project is focused on four work packages
1. MOOCs opportunities in degree education
2. Local area educational networking and video
production
3. Testing new blended learning techniques and
pedagogical ways
4. International exchange co-operation
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KASKU
3. Testing new blended learning techniques and
pedagogical ways.
Examples developing areas this moment:
• ECHO 360, classroom/personal recording system
• Wirecast, live editing streaming software
• Electronic exam room (24/7)
• Camtasia, personal recording software (activity
tasks)
• Flipped classroom method
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Open compliments!
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