Flexible Places for Learning and School as a ServiceDr. Kristiina Erkkilä, Director of Development

Smart & Heart Cities Conference, 29 October, 2015, Rome, Italy

Starting point for the Flexible Learning Spaces project

Spaces• Regional development and service networks• In temporary learning places 9 schools, 3000 students• Expences are getting higher• Requirement for efficiency, flexibility and for multiple use

Pedagogy• Espoo Local Development Plan for Education 2020• Learning and Digitalization to the centre• New Curriculum 2016

Flexible Spaces for LearningTemporary learning environments enabling renewable and joyful learning

• Innovative learning environments developed together with teachers, students and other users

• Cost-effective, sustainable and flexible solutions to support learning and joy

• Cooperation with Aalto and Helsinki Universities and companies

Guiding questions

• Can we see school as service rather than a building? • How can the physical, virtual and flexible environment

best support learning? • Can we increase well-being in schools by finding new

teaching and learning methods, learning environments and holistically developing school to support learning?

• Can we find ways to make use of the skills and knowledge acquired in non-formal arena?

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Lessons learned from Flexible Spaces for Learning

Flexibility• Convertibility• Functioning network ja multiple channels

Ownership• Of learning• Of learning space• Belonging to community

Accessibility• In multiple ways• Meeting place

School as a Service

What is Espoo aiming for?

Totally new solution how to organize education. The goal is to have flexible and cost-effective school service.

To test how learning environment can support the learning of digital natives and to add joy of learning.

To teach according to the new concept of learning where learning is in the focus.

To try out Flipped Classroom –method To find a solution that can be scaled up to other locations and to

other services.

Where does learning take place?

Future learning environments are

combining tangible, mobile, virtual, mental

and social spaces.

Platform for social learning

our enterprises are defined as worth pursuing and our participation is recognizable as competence

personal histories of becoming in the context of our communities.

to experience collectively our

life and the world as meaningful

frameworks, and perspectives that can

sustain mutual engagement in action

CentralizedSchool as a Product

DecentralizedSchool as a Components

DistributedSchool as a Service

From Product to Service

School as a Product• Planned• Static• Closed

School as a Service• Flexible• Modular• Accessible

Otaniemi Shared Use resources

KSchool as a Service

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue

Something old: renovated existing building (PUU2) in Otaniemi campus for basic educational activities with school management and utility spaces.Something new: New construction as schools new identity, lounge and dining rooms, a meeting place, drop-off and pick-up location.Something borrowed: Shared local resources for predictable and repeated weekly use, scheduled to be used in half a day slotsSomething Blue: On Demand resources within short distance require way finding and branding solutions to be identified as resources for new SaaS School.

SaaS planning process

Preproduction Fall 2015 Production Spring 2016 During production

and use 2016

The Body The HeartThe Brain

What Is Flipped Classroom

“School work at home and home work at school.”

Flipped classroom is an instructional strategy and a type of blended learning that reverses the traditional educational arrangement by delivering instructional content, often online, outside of the classroom. It moves activities, including those that may have traditionally been considered homework, into the classroom.

In a flipped classroom, students watch online lectures, collaborate in online discussions, or carry out research at home and engage in concepts in the classroom with the guidance of the instructor.(Wikipedia)

Flipped Classroom

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• Flipped classroom, blended learning• Learning concentrates on using higher level of thinking skills.

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Questions to be further studied• How can we “brand” a school without a school building?• How is this distributed school operated?• Can modern technology help us to manage the school with such

as tailored electrical locking systems?• How can we share resources and collaborate with Aalto

University?• Can we open the school for the society?• How does the role of the teacher change?• How do we support every learner to find the best way for them to

learn and belong?