Diploma in Innovation in Education - The Experience

Organized by Aalto University Executive Education and the University of Helsinki Centre for Continuing Education © all rights reserved

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The Diploma in Innovation in Education program is a mix of :

• Lectures and workshops by top professors and experts

• Visits to leading schools and educational Institutes

• Inspirational and thought-provoking talks

• Discussions with leaders in education

• Networking with like-minded people

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“An exceptionally well-balanced program with a truly global perspective. The presenters and speakers were world class, challenging our thinking and perspectives on education. The insight into Finnish Education revealed the strengths of

this model but perhaps more importantly the many common global challenges for educators. The partnership between Aalto University and the University of Helsinki was a perfect blend of pedagogical expertise and entrepreneurial

pedigree, both added significant value to each other” – Participant, 2016 © all rights reserved

Expectations vs. Challenges

Participants bring real-life challenges from their organizations / schools and discuss their expectations from the program.

Participants come from:

• Australia

• Bhutan

• Finland

• India

• Peru

• South Korea

Backgrounds

• Principals

• Department of

Education

• Ministry of Education

• Startups

• Service Providers

• School owners

“As an international participant it was really great to get a solid understanding of Finnish education. The opportunities for dialog between educators from across the globe was exceptional!” – Participant, 2016

Day 1: An inspiring workshop about electronics, coding and automation

“Creation of learning environment through collaboration of key stakeholders (teachers, students and parents); trust and autonomy to the teachers and use of technology are found to be very critical for learning to take place” –Participants, 2016

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Day 2: Strategic Leadership in Education

“Our experienced leadership practices should

support our vision” – Jari Ylitalo, Aalto University

“Sharing of knowledge and experiences on both

strategy and leadership in education has

widened my understanding”.

“Great opportunity to reflect on one's leadership!

We're going in the right direction” .

“ From log cabin to gamification! ”

“Strategy, Leadership and Teaching 1.0 and 2.0

resonated with me” .

Participants’ Feedback on the Module

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A Finnish school back in the days

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Day 3: Viherkallio visit – A modern innovative school of today in Finland

“Visit to the school was excellent! It was the best learning experience. What we have seen and heard will remain in our minds forever” – Participant, 2016

“A wonderful opportunity to see everything in practice. An essential part of this program!” – Participant, 2016

“The school visit was the best learning experience! We saw students, classrooms, teachers and all what was happening!” – Participant, 2016

Aalto Design Factory Visit: Pain vs. Pleasure

“The visit to Aalto Design Factory (ADF) was very educative. The collaboration between Aalto university and the different industries is amazing. It was amazing to see similarities between the school visit and ADF!” – Participant, 2016

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Day 4 (1/3)

“Compassion a Sign of

Strength”! – Dalai Lama

Finnish education is

about compassion &

joyful learning!

Session titled: Compassionate,

Compelling Educator by Lotta

Uusitalo-Malmivaara, The

University of Helsinki

It is common knowledge outside of academic journals that motivation, tenacity, trustworthiness, and perseverance are important traits for success in life. It is thus surprising that academic discussions of skill and skill formation almost exclusively focus on measures of cognitive ability and ignore non-cognitive skills. (Heckman & Rubinstein, 2001)

“A really powerful and relevant message about leadership, particularly the distinction between good and great leadership” – Participant, 2016 (on Tapio Lahtero’s session).

TECHNICAL HUMAN PEDAGOGICAL

Interpretations and meanings made of technical, human and pedagogical leadership form into SYMBOLIC leadership

The web of meaning form into CULTURAL leadership

Five forces of leadership (Lahtero 2011, Sergiovanni 2006)

Day 4 (3/3): Business Model Innovation in Education by Fabian Sepulveda

“Eye opening information, extremely helpful for

organizations or when creating business models.

Fabian’s workshop was excellent!” – Participant, 2016

Day 5: Design Thinking & Service Design Workshop

“Great insights for design thinking and ability to squeeze all in a few hours! Highly useful, lots of good, fresh perspectives. – Participants, 2016

“Design thinking is an open and functional way of working together to solve problems. The essence is solving a problem with a human touch. The exercise we have done was found to be very useful and will be very applicable in our organization” – Participant, 2016

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The Miracle of Finnish Educationby

Kirsti Lonka & Esa Saarinen

“Absolutely magical, took

us to the next level! [Esa]

Together with Kirsti

managed to help decipher

for us the secret behind the

excellence in Education.

Very inspiring and

thoughtful” – Participant,

2016

“What a day, what a finale. It is not often you can say you were moved to tears by a presentation but this day will have a profound effect on me as an educator for years to come. There are no words to describe the magnitude of the value of this session” – Participant, 2016

“We are ‘Engineers of Learning’ in Finland” –Kirsti Lonka

Statistically, it is more difficult to get into teacher education than med or law schools in Finand – Kirsti Lonka

The most compelling speaker/motivator I have ever heard, I was highly engaged, motivated but similarly transported to a deep place of personal reflection where I questioned the biggest things in my life. Somehow he created an environment for this to occur while having me hanging on his every word. The balance between Esa and Kirsti was divine both in dress and message! – Participant, 2016

Participants’ feedback on the Leading Change in Education Workshop by Pekka Mattila

“Leading change in schools requires trust, understanding, enabling environment, motivation and level of change needed. Understanding the dimension of change and culture provided a strong basis of understanding for change. The use of tools such as framing and re- framing, moving the bell curve, recognizing the bottle neck would help me at the implementation time”. - Participant, 2016

“The practical workshops on leading change were excellent. I am definitely going to use the methods we learnt”. - Participant, 2016

“Pekka had the ability to take the whole room with him on a ride to the moon and back”! - Participant, 2016

Participants

organizers

& guests

2016

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What they say about the program

“An exceptionally well-balanced program with a truly global perspective”.

“The presenters and speakers were world class, challenging our thinking and perspectives on education”.

“The insight into Finnish Education revealed the strengths of this model but perhaps more importantly the many common global challenges for educators”.

“These sessions provided an excellent balance of practical experiences and theoretical knowledge”.

“Excellent material, captivating professors and speakers”.

“Very touching and inspirational, we were all in tears”.

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Feedback in numbers

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Overall impression of the program

Overall program flow

Program director’s support during the program

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5.7/6

5.7/6

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By attending the program, you will

Explore the concept of innovation and discovering the latest trends in education

Acquire new methods for efficient school management

Apply strategic thinking and influential practices in schools

Improve school processes and achieving operational excellence

Adopt a design-oriented approach in learning

Lead change within educational systems and in schools

Network and dialogue within a cross-cultural context of educational professionals

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Esa Saarinen, Professor of Creative Problem Solving and Applied Philosophy, Aalto University School of Science

Kirsti Lonka, Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Helsinki

Pekka Mattila, Professor of Practice, Aalto University School of Business

Tapio Lahtero, Administrative Principal / Teacher Training Schools, University of Helsinki

Fabian Sepulveda, Senior Lecturer, Aalto University

Tiina Korhonen, Head of Innokas Network, University of Helsinki

Eero Vaara, Professor of Organization and Management, Aalto University School of Business

Lotta Uusitalo-Malmivaara, Lecturer and Adjunct Professor, University of Helsinki

Jari Ylitalo, PhD, Researcher, Aalto University, School of Science

Jari Lavonen, Head of Teacher Education Department, Professor of Physics and Chemistry Education, University of Helsinki

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Instructors

Schedule and modules August 23 – 30, 2017

Day 1: 21st Century Learning

• Innovation and new technologies in education

• Innovation education and the Innovative school model

• 21st century competences

Day 2: Strategic Leadership

• Novel approaches to strategy

• Dynamics of strategy creation

• What is strategic influence? Leadership as practice

Day 3: School Visit

• Visit a leading school in Innovation

• Visit to Aalto Design Factory

• Experience the Finnish way-of-learning

Day 4: New Mindsets in Education

• Broad-based pedagogical leadership

• Compassionate, compelling educator

• Entrepreneurship in education

Day 5: Design Orientation

• Approach to service design in an educational context

• Introduction to design thinking in a learning environment

• Design Thinking Workshop

Day 6: The Miracle of Learning

• Opening remarks by Aalto EE and HY+

• Leading Change in Schools

• The Miracle of Learning© all rights reserved

Contact Details & Pricing

Walid O. El CheikhM.Sc. (Econ.) Program DirectorTel. +358 10 837 3718, Mob. +358 50 461 92 66walid.elcheikh@aaltoee.fi

“Walid has been an exceptional program manager. He has invested himself above and beyond, his dedication to international participants is amazing and really helped bring Finland to us far beyond the contents of the course”. - Participant, 2016

“True customer service experience, kept us happy, engaged, stimulated. If I could give you 5 stars I would give and plus the moon!” - Participant, 2016

Program fee

€ 6500 (+VAT)

Deadline: July 26, 2017More info on the website

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We look forward to seeing you

on August 23-28, 2017 in

Helsinki, Finland!

More info on the website

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