Coaching and Cooperation with Working Life Enriches the Teacher’s Work
One of the primary tasks of universities is to educate future professionals and this goal is not only achieved through traditional pedagogical methods. The World Economic Forum identifies future core working life skills like analytical and creative thinking, self-efficacy, resilience, flexibility, agility, self-awareness, and the ability to utilize technology. (The World Economic Forum 2023). These […]
Highlighting Success: HEIComp’s Latin American Projects and Methodologies
In the fall of 2024, an international project was undertaken by a project team consisting of business students from Laurea University of Applied Sciences (Laurea) in Finland, along with exchange students. The goal of the project was to create an e-book aimed at spreading knowledge about Working Life Connected (WLC). This e-book was published in […]
Revolutionizing Higher Education: The Developing a Study Model in the HEIComp Project – A Student’s Perspective on Bridging the Gap between Student Competences
In the blog, we will discuss a project that aims to modernize the educational system inLatin American educational institutions to prepare students for professional life, as well asstudents’ attitudes towards this study model. We will talk about the Learning by Developing (LbD) a Study Model, developed at theLaurea University of Applied Sciences. Students studying under […]
Designing and Launching a New Mobile Application for Latin American students
This autumn I have been part of Laurea University of Applied Sciences student project team where we have been designing a new learning mobile application (later app) for Latin American universities. Laurea student project team consists of fifteen students: twelve Finnish students and three Mexican exchange students. We are collaborating with Brasilian Instituto Nacional de […]
