Continuously producing high quality research is a core activity of research centers, such as universities. However, managing such academic projects at the institutional level is still quite a challening task for everyone involved: students, supervisors and faculty coordinators. When students start working on their graduation work, be it a Bachelor/Master thesis or a PhD. dissertation,…
Finding the right supervisor is a crucial step for successful postgraduate studies and productive student-teacher research collaborations
How I was lucky in getting the right supervisor for my research Finding and building a good relationship with the right research supervisor cannot be taken for granted in universities. Since I started my postgraduate studies in Finland, I’ve been constantly confronted with my colleagues’ quest on finding the right supervisor for their studies and…
Open Science Schooling and the Project: Young Students as Critical Science Detectives
The current disengagement of science education at school Students have been constantly reporting cognitive and affective disengagement with science learning (Cowie et al., 2011; Murray et al., 2004) due, among other factors, to a disconnection between school learning activities and young people lived experience. At the same time, there is an increasing demand for science…
Eduix takes corporate and social responsibility seriously
Written by Sirpa Pajula and Laís Leite Social responsibility encompasses all the company’s and employees’ activities towards people. From the closest co-worker to the farthest partner. Sirpa Pajula The foregoing description is the author’s own definition, Eduix’s manager of corporate responsibility. In order for it to “really work” in practice, it requires that a responsible…
Eduix challenges the software industry to take responsibility
Written by Sirpa Pajula Corporate responsibility is the responsibility for a company’s social, economic and environmental impact. As a service company, Eduix’s corporate responsibility focuses on the social impact on people. The impact on people is reflected in the lifelong learning solutions that Eduix provides to its customers and users. The core values of Eduix’s…
The Edupreneurs Recommendation Paper is out!
Our goal with this recommendation paper is to share the lessons learned from the project Edupreneurs: Networking and Empowering Education Entrepreneurs Towards a Resilient EdTech Ecosystem. The project was undertaked in Southern Africa, funded by the Southern Africa Innovation Support (SAIS 2) programme.
Toni Ruusunen, full-stack developer
This time I talked with Toni Ruusunen about his work at Eduix. Toni is among other Eduix’s employees who used to work in another field and decided to explore the world of software development. Out of his own interest, self-regulated learning, and problem-solving skills, he developed his programming competences and ended up working with us….
Technology implementation in your school
Academic peer reviewing is one of the best ways there is to boost learning: although it is hard sometimes, when you are lucky, you get to read a lot of rich, useful, informative, instructive, mind changing literature that your supervisors and peers failed to recommend for you before. And I’ve been learning so much with…
Minna Ilmén, project manager
As a starting point for the year 2022, I talked with Minna Ilmén, project manager at Eduix for 3 years now. It was a relaxing and fun conversation. This time, we travel to Akaa, a small village about 50km south from Tampere where Minna lives. She described her house as a small, cozy and old…
Eduix wishes
Despite its challenges, the year 2021 has been a mark for the internationalization of Eduix’s operations. The fact that I am writing this post in Brazil, right now, is one of its milestones. If we make a timeline of what has happened during this year, we should notice that: Currently … I am in my…