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IMPDET-LE Preparatory Workshop Jarkko Suhonen School of Computing University of Eastern Finland January 7, 2014 jarkko.suhonen@uef.fi

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IMPDET-LE Preparatory Workshop

Jarkko SuhonenSchool of Computing

University of Eastern Finland

January 7, 2014

[email protected]

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Intro - edTechΔ research group

http://www.uef.fi/edtech

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edTechΔ - Basic facts

Established in early 2000

5 Senior researchers

> 25 PhD students

Extensive international collaboration network

Over 8 M€ of external funding (since 2001)

In average 23 peer-reviewed publications per year (since 2001)

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Research focus @ edTechΔ

Open & Distance Learning

HIV/AIDS

Education

Computer Science Educatio

n

Educational

Games

Leadership

Sentiment and opinion mining

Robotics

Digital story

telling & NLP

Semi-automatic

assessment of essays

SURA YA UKMWI - The Faces of AIDS

Jeliot Context-aware mobile

games in museums,

mobile games for forestry

education, UFractions

Mining opinions of customers via social

media tools

Detecting emotions in

texts

Theatre robotics

Smart Design

& Conten

t

Participatory, strength-

based, intercontextual, sustainable

design & analysis methods,

ViSCoS – first year online CS studies

NETAIDS in Uganda

Contextualised IT

education, Social

media tools for

collaborative learning

Hypercontextualised

game design

Tools for automatic analysis

and visualisatio

n of customer feedback

Prototypes for

analysing learner’ opinions

and emotions (plans for

future work)

Open data mining to support

teachers in robotics classes

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SURA YA UKMWI – The Faces of AIDS

http://www.surayaukimwi.com/

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Jeliot

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Mobile game in forestry education: EntVenture

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Story based mobile game for mathematics: UFractions

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International Annual SciFest - Festival of Science and Technology

http://www.scifest.fi/home_en.php

Outreaching activities - SciFest

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IMPDET-LE STUDIES

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The main research interests

1. Real-life computing innovations in education

2. Digital story telling & narratives

3. Learning analytics - novel text mining and data mining applications in education

4. Smart design: participatory, strength-based, intercontextual, sustainable design & analysis methods

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Study requirements in Computer Science - 1

1) Doctoral dissertation– Article-based (preferred)

Part I: Introduction

Part II: 5-7 published papers in peer-reviewed scientific forums– scientific journals, conferences, and book chapters with blind peer-review

process on full papers– co-written with the supervisor, other doctoral students, senior researcher

or other collaborators

– Monograph• Needs to include references to 5-6 published articles by the

candidate– Suggested publication forums listed in the IMPDET-LE wiki

(JUFO 1,2,3)• List of journals: https://wiki.uef.fi/x/LQ79• List of conferences: https://wiki.uef.fi/x/YimVAQ

– Publicly defended

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Study requirements in Computer Science - 2

2) Course work– 30 ECTS

• 4 ECTS General postgraduate studies– Scientific writing– Scientific presentation skills

• 26 ECTS Research specific studies

– Diverse ways to complete• Online and campus-based courses• Relevant courses completed outside of UEF (summer schools,

MOOCs, etc.)• Individual scholarly tasks and learning activities,• online research seminars (edTech research day)

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Applying

• Computer Science candidates of IMPDET-LE apply to ECSE – East Finland Doctoral Programme in Computer Science and Engineering

• Deadlines: February 28, May 31, August 31, November 30• Application documents

– Filled out application form– Copies of your Master's degree certificate and transcript of

academic records. If the degree certificate is awarded by another university than University of Eastern Finland, the copies must be certified

– Research proposal– Study work plan– Prove of English proficiency in the case of foreign applicants

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English language requirements

• Foreign applicants must prove their English language proficiency by any of the following language tests

– PTE (Academic), minimum of 59– TOEFL, minimum PBT 580 and in writing minimum of 4 / IBT

90 and in writing minimum of 22– IELTS (Academic), minimum overall score 6.5, in writing

minimum of 5,5• The English language test is not required for applicants who

have completed their previous higher education studies in English OR taken the matriculation examination in English language in Finland (IB degree or English as A1 language) OR conducted their secondary education in English

• An official statement given by that institution and indicating that the medium of instruction of the previous studies has been English must be included to the application

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About study times

• No upper limit for the study time => the study right is valid as long as the doctoral student remembers to register each study year (absent, present)

• Expectations in the edTech group– Full-time students (funding available for the studies) =>

expected completion time: 4 years– Part-time student (study while working or hired to work with a

project not directly related to PhD studies) => expected completion time: 6-7 years

=> Serious discussion after eight years of studying