Murjottelu – interdisciplinary training campaign for industrial design and engineering students

Itkonen, Maija; Ekman, Kalevi; Kojo, Inka

doi:10.1080/03043790903038858

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“…A common label describing the various teaching manifestations could perhaps be experiential pedagogy, which strives to emphasise student-centricity, encourage passion-based learning and link theory to practice in project-based studies. Examples of the manifestation of this approach in Aalto university activities include for example the 'Murjottelu' interdisciplinary student team-based industry trainee programme (Itkonen, Ekman, and Kojo 2009) and teaching science through conceptualised learning (Nordström and Korpelainen 2011).…”

Section: Df As a Pedagogical Platformmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Sino-Finnish initiative for experimental teaching practices using the Design Factory pedagogical platform

Björklund

Nordström

Clavert

2013

European Journal of Engineering Education

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The paper presents a Sino-Finnish teaching initiative, including the design and experiences of a series of pedagogical workshops implemented at the Aalto-Tongji Design Factory (DF), Shanghai, China, and the experimentation plans collected from the 54 attending professors and teachers. The workshops aimed to encourage trying out interdisciplinary hands-on teaching, and enable teachers to implement their ideas for teaching development utilising the DF pedagogical platform. The majority of the participants planned teaching experimentations aiming at enhancing student understanding of curricula through various group exercises utilising concrete artefacts, but found their implementation within established practices quite challenging, highlighting the challenges of transforming strategic collaboration into grass-root activity. However, the workshops ignited widespread interest in a continuum of collaboration in teaching development, and the DF has since acted as a hub for the implementation of subsequent internationalisation efforts of the two universities, including establishing a dual-degree programme.

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Section: Df As a Pedagogical Platformmentioning

confidence: 99%