25 October 2007 - University of Helsinki; Department of Computer Science Hannu Toivonen: Head of Department www.cs.helsinki.fi Background University of Helsinki in a nutshell: - 37,000 students - 7000 employees - Department of CS: - leading institution in CS in Finland - 2,400 aiming at Master's degree - 170 employees, 15% foreign - Part of faculty of science Teaching and research well connected in all specialization areas: - Algorit...

Media Centre, Dept of Education, Helsinki (Finland) 24 October, 2007 (11.00am - 12.30pm) Presenter: Ms Liisa Huovinen, Head of the Media Centre Introduction: The LEST October 07 group visited the Department of Education, Helsinki's Media Centre, meeting with the Head of the Media Centre, Liisa Huovinen.Ms Huovinen coordinates and leads ICT across the system.Ms Huovinen gave an overview to the group of the Department's statistics.The education system in F...

University of Art and Design HelsinkiMedia Lab http://mlab.taik.fiNetworked Learning and Knowledge Building ContextWe were originally intending to meet with Teemu Leinonen, who is the research group leader for learning environments. We were actually briefed by Tarmo Toikkanen, Senior Researcher within the Media Lab- [email protected]. A particular research group within the Lab - the "Learning Environments Research Group"- is part of a worldwide n...