This is a cooperative research project on blended learning of the German language. The method combines virtual student collaboration with class teaching in the context of German language, Culture, and Translation studies at Tampere University.
This pedagogical research project started in 2012 and the cooperation between the course teacher and the researcher has yielded new perspectives to traditional teaching methods. These new methods have been developed with the aim of including the most recent elements of the media and learning culture into the teaching.
Background
The project was started by Business Finland funding within the Active Learning Spaces consortium in the sub-project Social Media and Games for Language Learning 2012-2013.
Pihkala-Posti, L. & Salminen, O. (2016). Die kollaborative
Lernplattform Wikispaces im finnischen Germanistikunterricht
Ergebnisse und Aussichten In: Hg Tarvas Mari, Marten Heiko F. und Johanning-Rad~ien Antje unter Mitarbeit von Irsfeld Andine Frick Christian, Nowodworska Anna, Nowrousian Schirin, Probst Inga und Schönemann Martin. Beiträge des 10. Nordisch-Baltischen Germanistiktreffens (Tallinn, 10.13. Juni 2015). Triangulum. Germanistisches Jahrbuch 2015 für Estland, Lettland und Litauen. Einundzwanzigste Folge (2015). Bonn 2016, 173-192
Goal
In addition, the project has initiated an international e-learning project platform called Kulturbasar, which enables university students to cooperate by the guidance of their teachers in a digital collaborative environment. The project caters for participants from the Nordics, the Baltic states and Germany.
Contact persons
Laura Pihkala-Posti
Postdoctoral Researcher
laura.pihkala-posti [at] tuni.fi
+358 50 530 4188
Olli Salminen
University Lecturer
olli.salminen [at] tuni.fi
+358 50 381 248