Learning Experience Design
Early stage skills assessment
As the number of migrants in Finland is growing rapidly, the need emerged to recognise their professional skills at an early stage of their stay in the country.
My responsibilities:
Co-operating with trainers and experts of different professions, I created a set of skill assessments. (Mostly not available for wider audience.)
Target audiences:
Primary: Newly arrived adult migrants with vocational skills or education.
Secondary: Employment and economic development service centers. Organisations offering vocational education.
Years:
2014 - 2015
Curriculum design
I developed a model for learning communication and interaction skills through on-the-job learning for Helsinki Vocational College and Adult Institute, using the ePerusteet ("eReferences") educational standards as a basis of my curriculum development work. A central element of the process was to plan and schedule the future and think of what my clients need to accomplish.
My responsibilities:
Define learning needs and goals, ideate and define facilitation methods, design curriculum.
Target audiences:
Primary: Students in Helsinki Vocational College and Adult Institute, aged 16-64.
Secondary: Any employers interested in offering possibilities for apprenticeships or on-the-job trainings. Teachers in Helsinki Vocational College and Adult Institute.
Year:
2020
Personalised learning
I have been exploring the possibilities of personalised learning (for the learner and by the learner) since 2011, when I first did groundbreaking development work in designing new methods for learning language, literacy, communication, teamwork and cultural skills through hands-on learning workshops.
In my first project, my clients were adults with a range of special needs. I was the key between a total of 26 clients and 22 representatives of stakeholder companies ranging from SMEs to large multinational corporations.
I spent the following decade developing my skills and methods on personalised learning, and have by now successfully served ca. 500 multicultural and multilingual clients.
My responsibilities:
- setting clear, personalised learning goals, objectives and milestones in collaboration with my clients
- researching and creating personalised educational activities and workshops
- training my clients to meet their goals
- developing subject matter expertise on a wide variety of topics to design a range of personalised study materials using plain language
- contacting stakeholders and coordinating schedules to organise weekly meetings
- evaluating long-term and short-term results, and assessing and interpreting outcomes and skill levels
- writing two full-coverage reports about the progress and results of the project.
Target audiences:
Primary: 16-64 years old clients with a wide variety of learning needs and challenges.
Secondary: almost all of (but not limited to) the organisations listed on top of this page.
Years:
2011 - 2020
New approach for care assistant training
My responsibilities:
I created a prototype for a new training product in 2014. I lead it through testing and piloting phases for further development to reach the best educational outcomes.
To meet the desired results, I developed my own subject matter expertise, designed educational materials and participated in development of best practice models to meet client requirements.
For the following five years, I would further develop this method as well as my own skills through iterative development process.
Target audiences:
Primary: 16 - 64 years old students participating in care assistant training.
Secondary: nursing training providers, care homes employing care assistants.
Years: 2014 - 2019
Smaller learning-by-doing projects
Learning Space Design
Our goal was to design and develop modern learning spaces that meet the needs of adult learners. Special attention was given for interaction, functionality, safety and aesthetics. As customers' needs should always come first, I invited students to participate in the process. They were VERY creative and learned a lot about LSD.
My responsibilities:
Directing and facilitating the process of learning spaces design.
Target audiences:
Primary: Students in adult vocational education.
Secondary: Teachers in adult vocational education and others using learning spaces provided in the premises.
Year:
2016
Kalevala meets Today
My team created new, innovative ways of making Kalevala more interesting for youngsters by bringing together themes of the Finnish Epic and our modern-day life.
My responsibilities:
Define learning needs and goals, ideate and define facilitation methods, design curriculum.
Target audiences:
Primary: Finnish language teachers in secondary school
Secondary: Pupils in secondary school.
Year:
2005
Events organising
My responsibilities:
I worked on brainstorming, organising, planning and scheduling the program for the event to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Kemi Immigrant Education Services. As a Team Manager, I oversaw the work of one of the teams responsible for event organising. I chose the right people for different teams to enable success. I also delegated tasks to team members according to their skills and interests for better accomplishment of the planned tasks.
Target audiences:
Primary: Students attending the courses in Kemi Immigrant Education Services.
Secondary: General public interested in the event.
Year:
2011
Cultural skills
My team planned and executed a multicultural exhibition in Kemi City Library.
My responsibilities:
Direct and coordinate the team, collaborate with stakeholders.
Target audiences:
Primary: Finnish as second language learners aged 16-64
Secondary: General public.
Year:
2011
Linguistic awareness
In collaboration with Helsinki Business School and Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences, I worked on developing a four-part training program for teachers working in vocational education. The goal of the program was to provide the participants with better capabilities in linguistic awareness.
My responsibilities:
Design the structure and the content of the training. Run the first piloting phase of trainings and facilitate learning.
Target audience:
Vocational education teachers.
Year:
2019
Finnish language training
I specialise in Finnish language training tailored for professional purposes and eLearning, with active involvement in local and national development initiatives within a multilingual and international environment.
My role encompasses course design, development, and execution, as well as designing educational materials and activities, and evaluating learning outcomes to ensure effectiveness.