Living Labs for Educational Innovation Tobias Ley Professor for Learning Analytics and Educational Innovation

Why are we so bad in turning research into practical innovation? Investments in ICT for Learning “... success in initiating change does not guarantee that such changes can be sustained over time” Technology and Open Educational Resources as opportunities to reshape EU education , Communication of the European Commission, 2011

Why are we so bad in turning research into practical innovation? Educational Research Teacher Training Teacher Practices Student Learning

Educational Innovation at Tallinn University

A Living Lab for Educational Innovation Teachers become change agents in their schools Teachers run distributed study in their classrooms Data Community of researchers and teachers co-design intervention and research process Researcher collect evidence on educational innovation

Forms of School University Collaboration HIK & HUT University / School Networks Science Center Science Center School-based

Vocational Training Center in the Construction Industry EXAMPLE 1 Trainers Collaborate on Creating Learning Resources Embedding Learning into Workplaces Challenge: Better connction of learning with workplace, Support trainers As we already see in this small example - Involves teachers (new teaching practices), learners (new learning practices), technology and whole institutional change strategy Apprentices contribute to Learning Resources Extending Learning to the Companies Learning Layers Scaling up Technologies for Informal Learning in SME Clusters

Digipõõre – Co-designing Digital Change EXAMPLE 2 http://leplanner.net http://www.samsungdigipoore.ee

SmartZoos – The Zoo as a Learning Environment EXAMPLE 3 Creative Adventure Learning with Smart Devices Co-designing Learning Experiences in the Zoo http://smartzoos.eu/news/

So what is a Living Lab? Innovation Research Learning Sustainable cooperation between schools, research labs and other stakeholders Co-designing new learning methods and a research process Collecting data to establish evidence of impact Scaling up research and innovation

Adolfo Ruiz-Calleja Learning Analytics Infrastructures Mart Laanpere Institutional Change & Innovation in Education Katrin Poom-Valickis Teacher Training & Professional Development Paul Seitlinger Cognition & Social Interaction Luis Pablo Prieto Learning Environments & Orchestration Terje Väljataga Learning Environments & Collaboration Chus Rodríguez Triana Learning Analytics Algorithms http://ceiter.tlu.ee

Tobias Ley ERA Chair Professor for Learning Analytics and Educational Innovation Tallinn University, Estonia tley@tlu.ee skype tobias_ley Twitter @tobold http://tobiasley.wordpress.com

The Myth of Learning Styles “A recent international survey of teachers from the UK, China and elsewhere found that 96 percent believed in the idea of preferred learning styles.”