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

2. 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

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

4. Educational Innovation at Tallinn University

5. 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

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

7. 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

8. Digipõõre – Co-designing Digital Change
EXAMPLE 2

9. SmartZoos – The Zoo as a Learning Environment
EXAMPLE 3
Creative Adventure Learning with Smart Devices
Co-designing Learning Experiences in the Zoo

10. 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

11. 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

12. Tobias Ley
ERA Chair Professor for Learning Analytics and Educational Innovation
Tallinn University, Estonia
skype tobias_ley

13. 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.”