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Learning by Developing (LbD), is a pedagogical strategy of Laurea University of Applied Sciences for almost 15 years. It is based on authentic co-operation between teachers, students and working life partners. In practice, ...

One megatrend called digitalization will change the everyday living throughout the society in a disruptive way as Christensen has described in his research work [Christensen et al. 2006]. New branches will grow up, old ...

In the service business environment, new expertise in the development and management of services and service business is needed. The new skills required at working life have challenged higher education institutions teaching ...

Innovation is important as it enables the bringing of new and fresh things to the market, which challenge old services, products and businesses and thus opens the way for development. Innovation can be regarded as a ...

This article explores some of the dominating characteristics of open data expansion and in its impact on the curricula of business and economics programs in higher educations institutions. The presented phenomena are based ...

This paper discusses the importance of dusting traditional theory-centered teaching and learning with no connections to outer world. The educational vacuum needs to be broken to be able to offer students real-life learning ...

This paper discusses competence-based education development. Competences are a dynamic combination of knowledge, understanding, skills and abilities and they form a whole which represent what students have gained from their ...

Over the years a great variety of collaborative innovation concepts and methodologies with varying names, conflicting and overlapping definitions have been presented. In this study collaborative innovation related term ...

The aim of this paper is to describe the experiences and best practices of students and lecturers by multi-professional collaboration in the project work of Bachelor Degree Programmes in Nursing and Social Services. The ...

The paper discusses the roles of the non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and citizens in crisis management within the Finnish communities in a globalized world. As the Government Programme (2015) outlines, Finland will ...