Digital transformation in education

Digital transformation in education requires pedagogical innovations to ensure a skilled workforce and prepare students as future experts for the job market. Employees and diverse learners face the demands brought by digitalization and continuous technological changes, necessitating ongoing skill updates. Utilizing digitalization in skill development creates flexible opportunities for learning and continuous education, reshaping the ways, places, and spaces of learning.

Digital transformation can significantly renew higher education as advanced technologies, such as artificial intelligence, integrate into pedagogical practices. Digitalization affects pedagogy in various ways, including the planning, implementation, and assessment of learning and teaching.

Addressing these challenges requires interdisciplinary research and co-creation, where teachers, researchers, students, and industry stakeholders collaboratively build new innovative solutions.

We research learning, learning environments, and pedagogical solutions. 

Aksovaara, S., Haapala, H., & Silvennoinen, M. 2025. Exploring Reflective Data-Driven Decision-Making Through Simulation Pedagogy and Digital Environments. In Ravesteijn, P., & Jung, J. (2025, June 18). Research for Impact in Digital Innovation: Proceedings of the 3rd RIDI Workshop in conjunction with 38th Bled eConference Bled (SI), June 8, 2025. Reesarch for Impact in Digital Innovation (RIDI), Bled, Slovenia. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15691349 

Pernu, H., Paananen, S., Aksovaara, S., & Silvennoinen, M. (2025). AI’s role in collaborative learning settings in higher education – A systematic review. In A. Pucihar, M. Kljajić Borštnar, S. Blatnik, M. Marolt, R. W. H. Bons, K. Smit, & M. Glowatz (Eds.), 38th Bled eConference: Empowering Transformation: Shaping Digital Futures for All: Conference Proceedings (pp. 335-350). University of Maribor Press. https://doi.org/10.18690/um.fov.4.2025.21

Silvennoinen, M., Aksovaara, S., & Alanko-Turunen, M. (2025). Students’ usage of GenAI in universities of applied sciences: Experiences and development needs for guidance and support. In A. Pucihar, M. Kljajić Borštnar, S. Blatnik, M. Marolt, R. W. H. Bons, K. Smit, & M. Glowatz (Eds.), 38th Bled eConference: Empowering Transformation: Shaping Digital Futures for All: Conference Proceedings (pp. 467–482). University of Maribor Press. https://doi.org/10.18690/um.fov.4.2025.29

Silvennoinen, M., Alanko-Turunen, M. & Ruhalahti, S. (2025). Themes and potential gaps in research on vocational education and Universities of Applied Sciences in Finland: a scoping review of studies published in 2020-2022. 
European Journal of Education Studies, 12(2). doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.46827/ejes.v12i2.5802

Aksovaara, S., Määttä, S., Kärkkäinen, T., & Silvennoinen, M. (2024). Improving Learning Design Using Learning Analytics in Relation to Study Experience. Seminar.net, 20(2). https://doi.org/10.7577/seminar.5722

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