“…Students with disabilities are yet facing another challenge: the adaptation of ICT based solutions is well spread to general education. However, the lack of proper materials, applications and hardware can cause exclusion among the disadvantaged (Haukipuro, Shabalina, & Ylianttila, 2015).…”
This chapter investigates the role of ICT (by which we refer to tech-nologies such as software and hardware solution in general) as a peda-gogical support tool in the Finnish education sphere. Qualitative research method based on interview was conducted with four (4) experts whose background varied from education to ICT. The result of the content anal-ysis indicated that the use of ICT in Finnish education is widely spread and some of the respondents have cautious attitudes in adapting ICT as a part of their profession. Besides, this study identifies that the greatest barrier to implement ICT based solutions in schools are the funds. Based on the interviews and researches presented previously we conclude that digital literacy among the teachers in Finland is high as in many knowl-edge societies in general. Based on the interviews, also the use of ICT based innovations in schools in increasing in Finland.
“…Students with disabilities are yet facing another challenge: the adaptation of ICT based solutions is well spread to general education. However, the lack of proper materials, applications and hardware can cause exclusion among the disadvantaged (Haukipuro, Shabalina, & Ylianttila, 2015).…”
This chapter investigates the role of ICT (by which we refer to tech-nologies such as software and hardware solution in general) as a peda-gogical support tool in the Finnish education sphere. Qualitative research method based on interview was conducted with four (4) experts whose background varied from education to ICT. The result of the content anal-ysis indicated that the use of ICT in Finnish education is widely spread and some of the respondents have cautious attitudes in adapting ICT as a part of their profession. Besides, this study identifies that the greatest barrier to implement ICT based solutions in schools are the funds. Based on the interviews and researches presented previously we conclude that digital literacy among the teachers in Finland is high as in many knowl-edge societies in general. Based on the interviews, also the use of ICT based innovations in schools in increasing in Finland.
“…The activities taking place at living labs comprise of user and producer co-creation, new opportunities exploration, experiment in user community and the products and services evaluation [9]. A good example of benefits of using an online user community for cross-border studies in order to gather certain user groups' needs and evaluate companies' solutions is the experiment, which was carried out in Finland and Karelia Republic of Russian Federation [17]. An idea of utilizing PATIO user involvement tool in such research context was presented to the informants, and they perceived it as suitable for engaging people with disabilities for development as well as for social activities.…”
Online user communities and social networks are both used for user involvement in innovation process. Even though both of them have active participants as key driving force for innovation, they are still not the same. Therefore, this study investigated citizens' motivations to participate in an online user community, and compared how these motivations differ from motivations to participate in social networks. We conducted a UX study with 51 participants in total. The findings revealed that the role of moderator is a crucial for active participation and keeping up users' motivation. In addition, our findings suggest that an online living lab community shares common characters with other social networks, but it cannot be replaced by social media. The differences between online living lab and social network community are related to user motivations, and the needs of the customers and researchers for living lab activities. In this paper, we present a process of Oulu Urban Living Lab with user involvement supported by the PATIO online user community. Also requirements, system architecture and a new version of PATIO are described. Even though an amount of participants in our living lab study is relatively small, we want to share these insights for professionals of industry and academy.
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