UEF Summer School Courses

Digital Fabrication and Making in Education - Tools and Pedagogical Perspectives, 5 ECTS

• Course coordinator: Calkin Suero Montero, calkin.montero@uef.fi
• Organising unit: School of Educational Sciences and Psychology
• Course dates: 8-19 August 2022
• Please note: details to be updated soon
• Brief description of the course: In this course, I will draw from the experiences of introducing digital fabrication and making to formal and informal education contexts using a solid craft- and project-based pedagogical approach deployed within five interconnected stages: ideation, planning, creating, programming and sharing. The course covers the use of making technologies in education, detailing this design thinking and inquiry-based pedagogical methodology as well as technological platforms that support the deployment of digital fabrication and making tools within learning ecosystems. The course is carried out as a 2 weeks hands-on course, including group work to develop a physical computer-supported artefact.
• More information: Link to the course in the application system

Education in Diverse Cultures, 5 ECTS

• Course coordinator: Ritva Kantelinen, ritva.kantelinen@uef.fi
• Organising unit: School of Applied Educational Science and Teacher Education
• Course dates: 8-19 August 2022
• Please note: For Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral level students of educational sciences. The maximum number of participants is 16. A Letter of Motivation must be included in the application. 
• Brief description of the course: Diversity education. Multicultural education. Intercultural sensitivity. Learning culture and teaching culture. Teacher collaboration. Cultural traditions and diversity encounters in education. Communication styles in various cultures. Values underlying teacher-student relationships in various cultures. 
• More information: Link to the course in the application system

NB! More information about the above courses will be posted here soon.

Glasses for optical fibres and other applications, 2 ECTS

• Course coordinator: Ezekiel Kuhoga, ezekiel.kuhoga@uef.fi
• Organising unit: Department of Physics and Mathematics
• Course dates: 9-12 August and 15-16 August 2022 (6 working days)
• Please note: Event website is located here: https://sites.uef.fi/photonics/joensuu-summer-school-on-optics/ . The course involves lectures, short tasks and visits to two industrial companies.
• Brief description of the course: An example of industrial work career for physicist: what are the interesting parts of it, what are the heaviest types of tasks, and how to get through and learn to solve problems and to improve products and production methods; introduction to solid-state materials and their properties; material compositions and manufacturing methods of glasses for various types of products (windows, high strength materials, vessels, glass cover of ceramic materials, glass cover of electronic components, optical fibers); how the recycled glasses are used and their benefits; coloured glasses; glass in optical fibres; coating materials of optical fibers, manufacturing method for optical fibres; communications optical fibres and fiber components and their optical and mechanical properties; history and problems solved in the communications fibres 1976-2020; characterisation and measurement methods for fibers and fiber components;  splicing methods and manufacturing of fiber components; specialty optical fibers, fiber lasers and amplifiers; examples of photonics glasses and materials; two visits to industrial companies: a fibre and glass product factory and a photonics material factory; discussions with and short task reports to the students.
• More information: Link to the course in the application system

Learning Analytics, 5 ECTS

• Course coordinator: Ilkka Jormanainen, ilkka.jormanainen@uef.fi
• Organising unit: School of Computing
• Course dates: to be updated soon
• Please note: details to be updated soon
• Brief description of the course: Learning analytics (LA) refers to the “measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimizing learning and the environments in which it occurs”. The field built on the developments and success of other domains and disciplines and the rapid growth of data and analytics methods. LA has achieved significant advances in multiple areas: student recommender systems, learning dashboards, adaptive feedback, early warning systems and personalized support for students. This Learning Analytics (LA) Course will provide a framework for the understanding of the field of LA and how data has been used in education. The course will address the taxonomy of learning analytics and related terms such as educational data mining and academic analytics. The course will also discuss the theoretical background behind learning analytics and the concepts of the big data paradigm shift. The learning analytics main steps and procedures will be discussed in detail, including data gathering, analysis and generation of insights. The main ethical and privacy issues will also be covered.

  The practical aspect of the course will enable the students to practice the basics of visualization and analysis of educational data. More importantly, the participants will practice data analysis using popular techniques e.g., social network analysis, sequence mining, process mining, predictive analytics, and visualization.

• More information: Link to the course in the application system

NB! More information about the above courses will be posted here soon.

Environmental Collaboration and Conflict Resolution (ECCR), 5 ECTS

• Course coordinator: Denis Dobrynin, denis.dobrynin@uef.fi
• Organising unit: Department of Geographical and Historical Studies
• Course dates: 8-12 August 2022
• Please note: The application deadline for this course is 1 May 2022. We ask all candidates to submit a CV and a motivation letter (minimum 300, maximum 600 words). The course consists of two parts: the first part is related to pre-course assignments (in June); the second part is in August. Completing the assignments in both parts of the course results in 5 ECTS. Students from Finnish universities and from universities in EDUCAse network do not pay participation fees.
• Brief description of the course: The course will address environmental and natural resource conflicts that are familiar and topical for the course participants. These cases provide a real-world context for the course contents and development of practical skills. The themes may include natural resource conflicts for example in the fields of forestry, nature conservation, mining and land use conflicts more generally. Students are expected to work with concrete dispute cases along with the course program. The course is constructed around a framework of environmental collaboration and conflict resolution. It starts with the introduction of collaborative management and participatory methods and continues with the theory and practice of collaboration, mediation and consensus-building. It includes elements of interest-based negotiation theory at its core and builds on the collaborative model of consensus building. After the course students will have skills to 1) analyse conflict situations; 2) understand types of intervention and their preconditions, and; 3) match environmental conflict situations with appropriate response strategies; 4) understand the principles of meditated negotiation as a conflict resolution strategy; 5) participate effectively in collaborative multi-party processes.
• More information: Link to the course in the application system 

Food Law and Policy, 5 ECTS

• Course coordinator: Hang Nguyen, hang.nguyen@uef.fi
• Organising unit: Law School
• Course dates: 8-19 August 2022
• Please note: The application deadline is 30 June 2022.
• Brief description of the course: The course works from the idea of aligning food policies in an effort to improve food security worldwide. Finnish and international experts in fields of food security, food safety and nutrition, animal law, international trade, IPRs cover the foundations of food law as a legal discipline through the lens of contemporary scholarship on food law and policy issues. The course includes industry representatives and visits.
• More information: Link to the course in the application system 

NB! More information about the above courses will be posted here soon.

• No courses in August 2022.

• Buffet dinner offered by UEF on 8 August
• Walking city tour on 9 August
• Hangout evening on 10 August
• Daytrip to a farm and a short visit to Koli national park on 13 August (fee 25 euros)
• Baking Finnish delicacies on 15 August
• Sauna evening on 17 August
• Farewell dinner offered by UEF on 19 August