Presentation made for the visit by UNESCO

1. Centre for Educational Technology
@ the Institute of Informatics,
Tallinn University
The leading R&D centre in Baltic countries
in the field of Technology-Enhanced Learning

2. CET: the facts and figures
• Established in 1997 at the Faculty of Educational
Sciences, since 2005 a R&D unit within the Institute of
Informatics
• Budget: 1 MEUR annually, 100% project-based funding
• Our staff:
• 17 experienced researchers, international team (Germany,
Portugal, Spain)
• Doctoral students from Ghana, Nigeria, Georgia, Poland
• Professional software development team
• Mission: top-level R&D centre in the field of technology
enhanced learning contributing to educational innovation
on the national, regional and global levels

3. The most frequent keywords from our research papers

4. R&D projects on open
education
Hans Põldoja :: lecturer, PhD student @ Helsinki Aalto Universtiy

5. R&D projects on open education
LeMill (http://lemill.net) – OER authoring tool and community
platform with 42000 members and 73000 resources (2005–
2010)
Koolielu (http://www.koolielu.ee) – national educational portal
and learning resource repository (2008–2009)
EduFeedr (http://www.edufeedr.net) – an online tool for
aggregating open blog-based courses (2009 …)
Other open source learning tools – Web-based learning
environments VIKO (2001), IVA (2003), Krihvel (2005),
LePress (2010), Dippler (2011), eDidaktikum (2014)
Online assessment tools – TATS, PETS, DigiMina

6. LeMill

7. Contributing to European
research
Tobias Ley, PhD :: professor of digital ecosystems

8. Large-scale IP Learning Layers
2012-2016, EU FP7, budget 12 mEUR
Basiskarte: digitale-europakarte.de
Project Coordination
Learning Technology Research
Regional Application Clusters
Scaling Partners
Technology Partners
Health Care – Leeds
Construction &
Building – Bremen

9. Technologies for Informal and Lifelong Learning
have an Impact on Innovation in Europe
Building and Construction Industry
• Innovative sustainable construction techniques (“Green
Building”) are not taken up in practice
Healthcare Sector
• It takes too long until patients are treated according to
new clinical guidelines
Learning Layers supports more systematic sharing of
experience and makes available knowledge at the
workplace

10. Straw Building
How To
X3-PVQX3-PJC
X3-POZ PLC Equipment
Technologies Supporting Learning at the Construction Site
Explaining the use of a
new construction
technique and materials
on site
Making video material available on
site through QR tags
Use of video recording
and annotation
Further questions on the use of
the technique connected to site
Material, questions and best
practices collected and
discussed
Collection transformed into
instructional material to
enhance traditional training

11. Contributing to educational
policy-making in Estonia
Mart Laanpere, PhD :: senior researcher, head of CET

12. Contributing to educational policy-making in Estonia
• National curricula for primary, secondary and high schools:
(1996, 2002, 2010, 2014)
• National strategies for ICT in education (2001, 2005, 2009)
• Co-founder of Estonian E-university consortium
• Active partner in Estonian Association of IT and
Telecommunication Enterprises
• National programme on ICT
• National Strategy for Lifelong Learning 2014 – 2020: digital
turn towards 1:1 computing, BYOD model
• Competence modeling and assessment in line with EQF
• ERA Chair: Educational Innovation thru Technology-
Enhanced Research (2015 – 2020)

13. University-Industry partnerships:
Samsung case
Lili Kesa, MA :: project manager

14. Samsung Digital Turn: What and Why?
Whole-school policy towards radical change in learning
environment thru 1:1 computing (BYOD), new learning
paradigm, school-level change management in line with the
Estonian Strategy of Lifelong Learning 2014 – 2020.
The focus of innovation: a single teacher vs whole-school
Facts & figures:
•20 pilot schools, 6 members in school team (incl. principal)
•6 months of training, coaching and peer-counseling the
whole-school digital turn projects
•Main prize: 10 000 EUR from Samsung

16. Digital textbooks in Estonia
Terje Vä ljataga, PhD :: senior researcher

18. May 2015: All New Textbooks go Digital in Estonia
Re-conceptualising e-textbooks:
e-textbooks as
aggregations of
various materials
through innovative
learning scenarios,
where learner is a
creator of own
knowledge

19. Bleeding Edge R&D: MOOC’s
and learning analytics
Kai Pata, PhD :: senior researcher

20. MOOC: “Inquiry Learning with Computers” @ EMMA project
• EMMA MOOC’s -
Multicultural learning
experiences and
automatic translation
support
• Learning analytics
and real-time
feedback loop to
teachers and learners

21. MOOCs as Learning Ecosystems
Future trends:
- Discovering/Interacting with My Set of MOOC learners
- Recommending from the Set and explorative
discovery across Sets using social semantics
- Higher engagement and Flow experiences through
gaming approaches
Cross-Set
renegotiation of
knowledge
Within-Set joint
enterprise
Increasing knowledge flow by clustering

22. Contributing to educational
innovation on the global level
Mart Laanpere, PhD :: senior researcher, head of CET

23. Some examples of our outreach projects
• Georgia (2004 – 2009): assisting in development of the
national strategy for ICT in education “Deer Leap”
• Central Asia (2004-2005): advising Central Asian
Educational Cooperation Network
• Moldova (2007-2009): teacher training program on
implementing ICT in curricula, renewing informatics
curriculum
• Palestine (2011): tender for national educational portal
• Serbia (2014): teacher training for national curriculum
reform, interdisciplinary computing curricula
• Senegal (2015): environmental education in Dakar