Keynote:

Socially Shared Regulation in Learning – Progress for Learning Success in Generation Z

Speaker:

Professor Sanna JÄRVELÄ
Learning and Educational Technology Research Unit (LET)
Department of Educational Sciences and Teacher Education
University of Oulu, Finland

Time:

14:15 – 15:15 (Hong Kong Time), 31 May 2019 (Friday) by Video Conference

Venue:

Digital Interactive Lab, Ingenium, 2/F., Main Library, The University of Hong Kong

Medium of instruction:

English 英語

Sub-theme:

Generation Z: Learners and Learning

Chair:

Prof. Nancy LAW, Deputy Director, CITE, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong

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Abstract

Being able to strategically regulate one’s own learning and that of others is a vital and increasingly important 21st century skill. Those skills include: (a) ability to adapt to new situations and challenges and engage in complex problem solving, (b) social skills necessary for communicating and collaborating productively and proficiently, (c) socio-emotional skills and empathy necessary for tackling challenging problems, and (d) ability to take initiative set goals and monitor self and others. These competencies are the central to research on self-regulated learning and regulation of learning in collaborative contexts. In my research group, we have been especially interested in how groups, and individuals in groups, can be supported to engage in, sustain, and productively regulate collaborative processes for better learning. In this presentation I will introduce the theoretical progress of research on regulated learning, review our recent empirical findings of regulated learning in computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL) context and discuss about practical implications of this line of research in the framework of Generation Z and beyond: Co-evolution of human capabilities and intelligent technologies in the 21st century (GenZ). GenZ is a strategic profiling theme of the University of Oulu. GenZ aims to respond to the challenges rapidly developing new technologies will have on human lives in the 21st century. GenZ aims to strengthen human capabilities, anticipate future challenges and increase human resilience through world-class interdisciplinary research within the identified themes. In the GenZ project, we do not want to take humans for granted but turn this perspective inside out and ask the question differently: What if the digital future was not driven by digital technologies but by humans? What do we need to do to strengthen human skills and capabilities and to enable a human-driven digital future?

About the speaker

Sanna Järvelä is a professor in learning sciences and educational technology and a head of the Learning and Educational Technology Research Unit (LET) in the University of Oulu, Finland. Her main research interests deal with self-regulated learning, computer supported collaborative learning and on-line learning processes. Järvelä and her research group is internationally recognized in theoretical and methodological advancement of motivation as a contextual phenomena and of social aspects of self-regulated learning. Järvelä is the member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. Järvelä has published more than 150 scientific papers in international refereed journals and about 50 book chapters and three edited books, she has 8494 citations in Google Scholar and her h-index is 48. She is the current EARLI (European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction) president.