Working life oriented ecosystems of learning as a research subject
Anne Virtanen, Hannu L. T. Heikkinen, Päivi Tynjälä & Maarit Virolainen, University of Jyväskylä, Finnish Institute for Educational Research
In January 2018, a team of researchers from the Finnish Institute for Educational Research at the University of Jyväskylä made a request to universities of applied sciences, asking them to share their good working life oriented practices so that they could be studied. The research team hoped that the practices would yield meaningful competencies for work and promote digital learning methods in operations. By studying the practices reported, the research team is hoping to produce information on what working life oriented learning ecosystems could be, what characteristics are identified in them and how they work.
Several good working life oriented practices were reported to the research team, which studied a total of six practices from different fields and from around Finland more closely in spring and summer 2018 by interviewing teachers, students and working life representatives.