Innovations in education

Abstract

The world is changing at tremendous speed, generating pressure to rather conservative and tradition bound education principles and methods. Education often struggles to catch up with the pace of changes in the global, economy and technology driven world which is accompanied by the diversification of stakeholders’´ needs the education system should address. Today, innovativeness, connectivity and individuality are much more needed and required than just 10–20 years ago and one size fits all approaches doesn‘t work anymore. After all, as is often appealed nowadays, while students represent 25% or more of our population, they are 100% of our future.

This book, as a result of the Innovation in education seminar, held on 17th and 18th of October 2017 at South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences in Mikkeli, Finland, presents good practices and research results from three areas related to innovations in education: new –innovative education programs, innovative approaches to teaching and role of marketing in educational setting.