Presentation in NordLearn project meeting, 4 February 2009, Turku, Finland.

1. KERG — Knowledge
Environments Research
Group
Kai Pata & Hans Põldoja
Tallinn University

2. Tallinn University
• Established 1919
• 8500 students
• 17 institutes and 4 colleges
• 56 BA, 72 MA and 13 PhD
curriculums
Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 25, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia | Phone/fax +372 6409 355 | http://htk.tlu.ee

3. Focus areas
• Educational sciences
• Humanities
• Fine arts
• Mathematics and natural sciences
• Social sciences
• Health sciences
• Film and media
Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 25, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia | Phone/fax +372 6409 355 | http://htk.tlu.ee

4. KERG research group
• Institute of Informatics
• Centre for Educational Technology
Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 25, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia | Phone/fax +372 6409 355 | http://htk.tlu.ee

5. Institute of Informatics
• 1989 – Chair of Informatics
• 2001 – Department of Informatics
• 2008 – Institute of Informatics
• Staff 22
• 4 PhD
• 1 PhD student
Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 25, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia | Phone/fax +372 6409 355 | http://htk.tlu.ee

6. Curricula
• BA: Informatics
• MA: Multimedia and Learning Systems
• MA: Interactive Media and Knowledge Environments
• MA: Teacher of Informatics
• MA: Information Technology Management
• PhD: Educational Sciences (Didactics of Informatics)
Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 25, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia | Phone/fax +372 6409 355 | http://htk.tlu.ee

7. Centre for Educational
Technology
• Established 1996
• Staff 12 (7 researchers and 5
developers)
• 1 PhD
• 5 PhD students
Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 25, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia | Phone/fax +372 6409 355 | http://htk.tlu.ee

8. Research areas
• Design and architecture of distributed and hybrid
learning systems
• Ecological learning design
• Cross-institutional knowledge construction
• Soft-ontology based exploratory tools for community
analysis
• Theory of mixed method research
Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 25, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia | Phone/fax +372 6409 355 | http://htk.tlu.ee

9. Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 25, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia | Phone/fax +372 6409 355 | http://htk.tlu.ee

10. Current projects
• 7FP project IntelLEO (2009–2012)
• 7FP project S-TEAM (2009–2012)
• eContentplus project iCoper (2008–2011)
• TRF: Distributed learning environments, their
interoperability and models of application (2008–2013)
• ESF: Self-directed learning in hybrid environments
(2008–2010)
Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 25, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia | Phone/fax +372 6409 355 | http://htk.tlu.ee

11. Past projects
• 6FP project iCamp (2005–2008)
• 6FP project CALIBRATE (2005–2008)
• DeerLeap (2005–2008)
Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 25, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia | Phone/fax +372 6409 355 | http://htk.tlu.ee

12. Future projects
• Tallinn Living Lab (mobile city)
Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 25, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia | Phone/fax +372 6409 355 | http://htk.tlu.ee

13. Development projects
• Learning management systems: IVA, Krihvel, VIKO
• Learning resource authoring platform: LeMill
• Repositories: Waramu
• Assessment tools: TATS, PETS
• Educational portals: Koolielu, KooliPlone
Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 25, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia | Phone/fax +372 6409 355 | http://htk.tlu.ee

14. IVA is an open source LMS
platform
http://www.htk.tlu.ee/iva/
Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 25, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia | Phone/fax +372 6409 355 | http://htk.tlu.ee

15. LeMill is an international
teacher community for
collaborative authoring of
learning resources.
http://lemill.net
Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 25, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia | Phone/fax +372 6409 355 | http://htk.tlu.ee

16. Ideas for collaboration
• Developing joint industrial doctoral program
• Seminar on design and architecture of distributed and
hybrid learning systems
• Doctoral summer school
Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 25, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia | Phone/fax +372 6409 355 | http://htk.tlu.ee

17. Thank you!
• Centre for Educational Technology
• http://htk.tlu.ee
Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Narva mnt 25, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia | Phone/fax +372 6409 355 | http://htk.tlu.ee