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Improving Accessibility of eLearning in Higher Education from Universal Design for Learning Perspective

2019

Finnish Classroom Teacher Students' Experiences of an Online Music Course During The COVID pandemic

2022

When studying music, skills are often practised with a teacher, face-to-face, in a classroom. What are the experiences of classroom teacher trainees when music teaching becomes asynchronous, i.e., an individually completed online course? This question, among other things, was explored at a Finnish University's Teacher Education Department in autumn 2020, resulting in the production of a two-credit online music course on the Moodle learning environment. It was implemented for the first time during the summer term in 2021. The students’ experiences with the functionality of the e-learning module were analysed through data-driven content analysis. The study represents an intensive case study u…

Examining the antecedents and consequences of perceived value : a case study of mobile banking application usage in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

2022

Recent advancements in information, communications, and mobile technologies have revolutionized banking and payment services as well as consumer behavior. This study examines the continuous usage experience of mobile financial services, and especially mobile banking services, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), the context of this study. Data were collected from 300 experienced mobile banking users across the KSA using a pre-tested survey instrument. The partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) was used to analyze the data. The results supported most of the hypotheses and revealed that e-service quality, e-information quality, and experience flow have a significant an…

Sisäisten prosessien ja projektien laadunhallinnan kehittäminen matriisiorganisaatiossa : case Nordea

2007

Verkkoviha väkivaltana : vihapuhetutkijoiden näkökulmia

2022

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Henkilökohtaista brändäystä vai yrityksen "työlähettiläisyyttä" : asiantuntijan verkkoyhteisöpalvelu LinkedInin käyttö

2016

Tämän ajan puhutuimpiin sosiaalisen median markkinointikeinoihin kuuluu työntekijälähettiläisyys. Työntekijälähettilään odotetaan edistävän yrityksensä positiivista mainetta esiintyessään sosiaalisessa mediassa. Tässä tutkimuksessa on tarkoitus selvittää, onko asiantuntijan LinkedInissä esiintymisen tarkoitus itsensä esittäminen ja brändäys vai työantajayrityksensä markkinointi. Lisäksi tutkimuksessa selvitetään, mitä vaikutteita asiantuntijan LinkedInin käytön taustalla on. Tutkielman kirjallisuuskatsauksen ensimmäisessä osassa tarkastellaan LinkedIniä sosiaalisena mediana ja verkkoyhteisöpalveluna. Kirjallisuuden toinen osa käsittelee teknologian käyttöön vaikuttavia tekijöitä. Tutkimusai…

Complex Authority Network Interactions in the Common Information Sharing Environment

2019

European authorities collaborate as a community toward a coherent approach of situational understanding and open trust base information sharing. Innovation in multi-stakeholder collaboration networks involve complex collaboration between user community members, providing cross-sector, cross-border and cross-authority interaction and information sharing for collaborative situation awareness, and cooperation to increase safety and security. This study analyses data consisting of elements of use cases, collected from EU funded innovation projects. These were placed in a table based on similarity, difference and relevance to produce a classification. The results of this study indicate that use …

Vocational Education and Training Institutions' Collaboration with the World of Work from the Perspective of Actor Networks and Ecosystems of Learning

2018

Vocational and professional education institutions, as well as higher education institutions, are more and more expected to collaborate with the world of work and each other. At the same time, the boundaries of organisations have become somewhat blurred. Employers may be subcontractors for a larger firm or subdivisions of an enterprise (organisation) may serve their headquarters through digital connections on the other side of the globe. As a result, the forms and cultures of organisations that educational institutions are expected to collaborate with have become rather complex and difficult to figure out. In order to better understand the complexities of the collaborative practices that ed…

Visible organisational boundaries and the invisible boundaries of the scholarly profession

2022

The role of universities in knowledge production has changed. Although most higher learning still takes place in universities, knowledge is increasingly produced in collaborative networks comprising partners from different sectors (Välimaa, J., V. Papatsiba, and D. M. Hoffman. 2016. “Higher Education in Networked Knowledge Societies.” In Re-becoming Universities, The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective. Vol. 15, edited by D. M. Hoffman and J. Välimaa, 13–39. Dordrecht: Springer). In addition, the focus of universities’ personnel policies has shifted from supporting professional inclusion and exclusion towards supporting the national d…

The development and management of interpersonal trust in a business network in health, exercise, and wellbeing markets

2017

The aim of this dissertation is to explore the development, management and measurement of interpersonal trust in the context of a business network. More specifically, the focus is building and managing trust in the early stages of networking by examining how interpersonal trust forms in business networks and anchors relationships, and in addition, how the level of interpersonal trust could be measured. The data for this study is a qualitative, and collected from the business network that operates in the health, exercise and wellbeing sector. This study consists of three main parts: an introductory essay that consists of the research task, conceptual framework and methodological choices, fou…