Tutkimus käytännön palveluksessa : mitä hyötyä HRM-vaikuttavuustutkimuksesta voi olla työorganisaatioiden kehittämistoiminnassa?

Abstract : Research in the service of practice

Language Learning in Task Management and Task Accomplishment

In this paper we study student interaction in English and Swedish courses at a Finnish university. We focus on language choices made in task-related activities in small group interaction. Our research interests arose from the change in the teaching curriculum, in which content and language courses were integrated at Tampere University of Technology in 2013. Using conversation analysis, we analysed groups of 4-5 students who worked collaboratively on a task via a video conference programme. The results show how language alternation has different functions in 1) situations where students orient to managing the task, e.g., in transitions into task, or where they orient to technical problems, and 2) situations where students accomplish the task. With the results, we aim to show how language alternation can provide interactional opportunities for language learning. The findings will be useful in designing tasks in the future.

Content and Language Integration as a part of a degree reform at Tampere University of Technology

Tampere University of Technology is undergoing a degree reform that started in 2013. One of the major changes in the reform was the integration of compulsory Finnish, Swedish and English language courses to substance courses at the bachelor level. The integration of content and language courses aims at higher quality language learning, more fluency in studies, and increased motivation toward language studies. In addition, integration is an opportunity to optimize the use of resources and to offer courses that are more tailored to the students' field of study and to the skills needed in working life. The reform also aims to increase and develop co-operation between different departments at the university and to develop scientific follow up. This paper gives an overview of the integration process conducted at TUT and gives examples of adjunct CLIL implementations in three different languages.

Puutavaran autokuljetuksen ajanmenekki puunhankinnan nykytoimintaympäristössä

Seloste artikkelista: Nurminen, T. & Heinonen, J. 2007. Characteristics and time consumption of timber trucking in Finland. Silva Fennica 4 (3): 471-487

Lenin ja Bobrikov : keskustelua

Kommentti Osmo Jussilan artikkeliin // Historiallinen aikakauskirja. 101 (2003) : 4

Mallinnuksen käyttö arvioitaessa ilmastonmuutoksen vaikutusta havu- ja lehtinunnan levinneisyyteen

Seloste artikkelista: Vanhanen, H., Veteli, T. O., Päivinen, S., Kellomäki, S. & Niemelä, P. 2007. Climate change and range shifts in two insect defoliators: gypsy moth and nun moth - a model study. Silva Fennica 41 (4) : 621-638

The use of future-oriented knowledge in regional innovation processes: Research on knowledge generation, transfer and conversion

The importance of the regional level in research has risen in the last few decades and a vast literature in the fields of, for instance, evolutionary and institutional economics, network theories, innovations and learning systems, as well as sociology, has focused on regional level questions. Recently the policy makers and regional actors have also began to pay increasing attention to the knowledge economy and its needs, in general, and the connectivity and support structures of regional clusters in particular. Nowadays knowledge is generally considered as the most important source of competitive advantage, but even the most specialised forms of knowledge are becoming a short-lived resource for example due to the accelerating pace of technological change. This emphasizes the need of foresight activities in national, regional and organizational levels and the integration of foresight and innovation activities. In regional setting this development sets great challenges especially in those regions having no university and thus usually very limited resources for research activities. Also the research problem of this dissertation is related to the need to better incorporate the information produced by foresight process to facilitate and to be used in regional practice-based innovation processes. This dissertation is a constructive case study the case being Lahti region and a network facilitating innovation policy adopted in that region. Dissertation consists of a summary and five articles and during the research process a construct or a conceptual model for solving this real life problem has been developed. It is also being implemented as part of the network facilitating innovation policy in the Lahti region.

Small scale waste management. Composting project in selected schools in Mwanza, Tanzania

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