How Do Students Blend Their Studies Based on Time and Place?
Hakala, I., Härmänmaa, T., Laine, S., & Myllymäki, M. (2017). How Do Students Blend Their Studies Based on Time and Place?. In L. G. Chova, A. L. Martínez, & I. C. Torres (Eds.), EDULEARN17 Proceedings. 9th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies (pp. 2481-2489). IATED Academy. doi:10.21125/edulearn.2017.1520
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© 2017 the Authors. This is a final draft version of an article whose final and definitive form has been published in EDULEARN17 Proceedings by IATED. Published in this repository with the kind permission of the publisher.
The flexibility of participating in education can be improved by utilising lecture videos. By producing
videos of contact teaching lectures and offering them to students as real-time videos and recordings,
opens up new participation opportunities regarding time and place. This study examines an environment
in which students can freely choose their mode of participation for each individual lecture. The objective
has been to identify possible changes in participation by looking at participations between 2008–2012
and in 2017. According to the results, teaching bound to a specific location has disappeared almost
entirely. Participation in teaching is instead mostly done using videos. Students participate in teaching
using live or on-demand videos, or by blending these two methods. This means that plenty of students
in the degree programme blend their studies particularly regarding time.