Learning
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Ria Gynther
Making game industry competence visible
Game industry roles and skills often have multiple meanings depending on the context, which can make it difficult to see what career opportunities are available or to demonstrate what you can do. Gamebadges aims to change this by making industry-specific competences clear, understandable and demonstrable through a transparent verification system.
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Ria Gynther
Digital badges explained
In a rapidly digitalising education and job market, traditional qualifications do not always reflect individuals’ actual abilities. Digital badges can provide a practical way to recognise and communicate skills, learning, and professional development.
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Pamela Spokes
The myth of the eureka moment – why innovation isn’t about sudden genius
The stereotypical depiction of a person engaged in creating something new usually plays out with a 'eureka' moment. The proverbial light bulb lighting up above their head. In reality, innovation is more likely to be the result of a hundred failures than a sudden moment of genius.
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Pamela Spokes
Building skills for modern work through innovation challenges
Traditional courses don’t always help us practise the skills the real world demands. Innovation challenges offer a practical way to translate new skills directly into modern working life.
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Pamela Spokes
Developing the entrepreneurial mindset in education administration
To develop an entrepreneurial mindset within education administration, institutions must align their culture, structures, and metrics with learning, experimentation, creativity, and adaptability. That is the answer to balancing accountability with the constant need to develop and improve services.
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Mona Roman
Why is top management support essential for European University alliances?
The European University alliances are one of the four flagship initiatives of the European Higher Education Area. The U!REKA alliance’s journey shows how committed management engagement can drive deep, transformative cooperation between partner institutions. This article offers my personal reflection as a Lead Coordinator of U!REKA alliance as regards our alliance approach to building true engagement and what other alliances can learn from our experience.
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Pamela Spokes
Designing change: bringing service design to Namibia’s next generation of university administrators
Introducing service design principles can spark new ways of thinking about education, entrepreneurship, and social innovation.
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Pamela Spokes
Service design as a core competence in Finnish higher education
Policymakers, academic leaders, and educators need to recognise service design as a strategic necessity and make it a core competence across disciplines.
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Lada Stukolkina, Laura Matikainen
Game and experience design at the heart of creating engaging events
How can experience design and gamification boost engagement during events? This article discusses a concrete case from Metropolia’s Smart and Creative City Innovation Hub, where game and experience design were used to connect students more closely with the Hub’s activities.
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Evelin Delic, Eunice Siame-Moono
Episode 3: Triumphs of bilingual nursing
In this episode of the Journeys in bilingual nursing education podcast third-year student Evelin Delic reflects on her growth through Finland’s bilingual nursing programme, sharing honest insights on overcoming imposter syndrome, building confidence, and becoming a compassionate nurse with host Eunice Siame-Moono.