Venia Legendi CEITER: Public Lectures from Top Researchers

Last summer, Tallinn University started the ERA Chair programme research project CEITER, with the ambitious goal to modernise educational research through data research and learning analytics methods.

Last summer, Tallinn University started the ERA Chair programme research project CEITER, with the ambitious goal to modernise educational research through data research and learning analytics methods.

In December, 2015 Tobias Ley was elected as project leader by the TU Senate. He assumed his position this April. Now the project has reached the next stage of compiling a top international research team: on 27-31 May eight researchers running for five available positions will hold their Venia Legendi – public lectures.

The five positions and candidates are:

  • Senior research fellow for learning analytics and educational data mining (algorithms and visualisation) – Luis Pablo Prieto and María Jesús Rodríguez-Triana (both from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne);
  • Senior research fellow for learning analytics and educational data mining (infrastructures) – Adolfo Ruiz Calleja (Tallinn University, formerly from University of Valladolid)
  • Senior research fellow on New Learning Environments and Technologies (collaborative, problem-based and creative learning) – Timo Partala (Tampere University of Technology), María Jesús Rodríguez-Triana (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne) and Terje Väljataga (Tallinn University);
  • Senior research fellow on cognition and social interaction in learning – Paul Seitlinger (Graz University of Technology) and Minna Huotilainen (University of Helsinki);
  • Senior research fellow on New Learning Environments and Technologies (planning and orchestration of learning) – Sergei Sosnovski (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI), Luis Pablo Prieto (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne) and Terje Väljataga (Tallinn University).

The lectures will take place at A-402 (Astra building) as follows:

Terje Väljataga

27.05 at 11

Timo Partala

27.05 at 13 -

Paul Seitlinger

27.05 at 15 -

Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

30.05 at 10

Luis Pablo Prieto

30.05 at 12

Minna Huotilainen

30.05 at 14

Adolfo Ruiz Calleja

31.05 at 14

Sergey Sosnovsky

31.05 at 11