innoomnia-english2011

InnoOmnia – an innovative approach to vocational learning environments

MARCH 2011

ESKO LIUS

• “New Work” is rapidly changing knowledge and skills communities

• Work and learning are parts of meaningful, personal networks

• Facilitate tacit knowledge into explicit, personal skills to be shared together

• InnoOmnia: Entrepreneurship coaching for students, teachers, and entrepreneurs

Education is part of the new world of new work

Esko Lius @ Global Learn, Melbourne 2011

EXAMPLE: CarrotMob

In Carrotmob campaigns, an organizer asks local businesses to compete:

Who will make the biggest change to their business in order to improve the world?


How can teaching and technology

help to adjust to this kind of a world?

A new educational paradigm by Omniafor students, teachers, and entrepreneurs

NEW KIND OF DEEP EDUCATION–BUSINESS COLLABORATION

Four learning environments

• the centre is locatedon Omnia campus in Espoo

• personal mobile learning tools & environment

• social media: www.InnoOmnia.fi

• virtual InnoOmnia in Second Life


New home for an inspiring developer community

• A serviced office facility

• Special workshop facilitiesfor handcrafts and art entrepreneurs

• Hair salon and spa run by students and entrepreneurs

• Real life and virtual encounters

• All the tools needed to grow and develop new ventures

• People doing amazing things together


Business & Administration students

• Extended on-the-job-training

• Start up their own Young Enterprise

• Agility in real situations

”flexibility, relevance, interactivity and connection to real world issues”

INNOOMNIA CENTRE ON CAMPUS


B & A students, cont.

B&A Students start Young Enterprisein January 2012 (part of Jr Achievement worldwide)

core team of three teachers taking care that the new system works fluently and actually can produce the outcome we are aiming at.



In August starts a group of students doing their basic vocational qualification of business and administration.

What differs from the ordinary:

in addition to the compulsory 20 credit training on-the-job they are expected to select Customer Care and Marketing (20 cr) and Visual Marketing (20 cr) of which a major parts will be conducted as on-the-job training. Plus: marketing communications, entepreneurship etc.

B & A students, scenario



The students are asked to submit a tender for a back office help, eg. copying and sending marketing letters of the entrepreneurs for the autumn term.

When the tender has to be ready, the students will be told that the customer requires the tender to be in English.

So we give them two more days, models of tenders written in English, and assist them.

The point is that they not only do a real life tender and the best one gets the deal, but also that they get used to react quickly to the changing situations in business life.

Building Maintenance students

• MP3 players with video & WLAN

• From heavy, printed manualsto mobile audiovisual databases

• From written reports or fixed timesfor showing competence tosituational video shots

• To help particularly the special educational needs and immigrant students

• Joint initiative with two othervocational institutes, funded by NBE

Photo: mia! @ flickr.com

MOBILE LEARNING TOOLS & ENVIRONMENTS


www.InnoOmnia.fi

• Own social online community

• More flexible than intranet or LMS

• More adjustable than Facebook or Ning.com

• Students activated from the beginning:

• Business IT student as on-the-job learner killing bugs and helping in planning

• multimedia/av students creating layouts and graphics as their final projects

• Business&administration students presenting and teaching use of InnoOmnia.fi

ONLINE HUB


maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/InnoOmnia

VIRTUAL WORLD CENTRE

Video postproduction & music by Omnia students(link to video: to be added)

Thank you!

www.innoomnia.fi/glearn

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