Watson Supported Personal Digital Learning Environment – Towards New Generation of Digital School in Finland
1. UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ
Dean, professor Pekka Neittaanmäki
Faculty of Information Technology
University of Jyväskylä
www.jyu.fi/it/en
23.10.2016
Watson Supported Personal Digital
Learning Environment – Towards New
Generation of Digital School in Finland
21.10.2016
3. UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ
Government has decided that Finland
will develop Digital School
in Finland by year 2020
n Cognitive computing supported adaptive digital
learning environments will have central role in
developing next generation digital school in FInland.
We shall present a prototype of Watson supported
digital school.
n IBM Watson University: only universities in
Scandinavia are the University of Jyväskylä, Finland
and the Technical University of Denmark
since 2015.
21.10.2016
4. UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ
University of Jyväskylä
152-year history
(Teacher Seminary in 1863)
One of the top universities
in Finland
Students come from all over
Finland and abroad, from some
100 countries.
5. UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ
Learning, teaching and
the learning and growth
environments that
support development
Basic natural
phenomena and
mathematical thinking
Languages, culture and
communities in global
change processes
Physical activity,
health and wellbeing
Information technology
and the human in the
knowledge society
Core fields
7. UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ
New emerging fields
The University aims to recognize new emerging fields with
multidisciplinary and future-oriented cooperation between
faculties. Recognized growing fields are based on the core fields
of the University:
– Interdisciplinary brain research
– Bio resource research as a multidisciplinary competence cluster
– Computational thinking and big data analytics as support for decision-
making and as part of cyber security research
– Pedagogy and digitalization in increasingly multimodal learning
environments
– Multidisciplinary research on crises and changes in society
8. UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ
Faculty of Information Technology
n Founded in 1998
n Computer Science since 1967
n 2 760 students
(2 588 BSc/Msc degree students
and 172 PhD students)
n Teaching and research staff ca.140, 14 full-time
professors and 8 temporary professors or research
professors
n Annual budget 14.3 M€ in year 2016 (8.8 M€
Government funding, 5.5 M€ external funding)
n Active cooperation with the industry
n IBM Watson University Program
11. UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ
Identification(Valtori)
KanTa VRK KanSa Hyvinvointi
National service bus
Secure, centralized national cloud service
HTV
Applications
Primary Health Care
Special health Care
Social welfare
Operative systems
Health Care Enterprise architecture
12. UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ
KanTa VRK KanSa Hyvinvointi
Secure, centralized national cloud service
HTV
Applications
Cognitive computing
Hospital ICT-system
communicates with the
national Health Care
system
Cooperation with hospital ICT-systems and
National Health Care
Hospital ICT-system
13. UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ
Risk analysis of the patient
Care deficit
Regional/ National Care
deficit
Big Data Fusion
Care deficit analysis
KanTa VRK KanSa Hyvinvointi
Secure, centralized national cloud service
HTV
Applications
Cognitive computing
17. UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ
Digital Learning
Environment
Secure School Environment
Digital Class
room
Digital
laboratories
Studies
My Data
Compe-
tencies
Career
Dynamic CV
National
eEducation
material center
National Secure Information environment
Internet
Non-digital
material
National Digital School
Cognitive computing
18. UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ
National Health Care and Digital School cooperation
Student archive
− Student data
base
− Student result
register
National Health Care System
SchoolPupil
National service bus
Communication Network
Public Service Interface