EDiversity Conference 2014 "We Need Choices"
Mr. Niko Lindholm (Fin)
Director of Sales, TribaLearning (He has left this post recently)
Previously serving the government as Project manager in the Finnish National Education export programme, namely Future Learning Finland, Niko has gained extensive experience in selling learning systems, and was responsible for opening markets for Finnish educational companies and organizations in Saudi Arabia and China.
Niko is also a visiting scholar at Fudan University of Shanghai, and a PhD Candidate at University of Tampere in Finland. He holds a master's degree in Social Sciences from the University of Turku in Finland specializing in politics of education refroms in East Asia. He also worked as a visiting researcher at Osaka University in Japan and helped Duy Tan University to build up its International Department in Vietnam.
At present, he is promoting digital learning. By combining both educational data mining and learning analytics, learners can save, organise and search learning material in different formats, and then study these materials collaboratively with other students on the Internet.
Why Finnish schools excel without relying on drilling for exams and lots of schoolwork?
Niko is also a visiting scholar at Fudan University of Shanghai, and a PhD Candidate at University of Tampere in Finland. He holds a master's degree in Social Sciences from the University of Turku in Finland specializing in politics of education refroms in East Asia. He also worked as a visiting researcher at Osaka University in Japan and helped Duy Tan University to build up its International Department in Vietnam.
At present, he is promoting digital learning. By combining both educational data mining and learning analytics, learners can save, organise and search learning material in different formats, and then study these materials collaboratively with other students on the Internet.
Why Finnish schools excel without relying on drilling for exams and lots of schoolwork?
What Choices Have We? The Finnish Lessons
Speech preview:1‘20“
Speech video:57’36”
Supplementary documents:
Correspondence AddressUnit 2, 21/F,
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