Welcome to the Learning by Developing - New Ways to Learn Conference on Creativity in Higher Education
The 2012 LbD conference will host over 180 participants from over 20 different countries and offer a variety of different presentations about interesting and current topics in the field of Creativity in Higher Education. You can find the detailed information (e.g. the programmes of the pre- and main conference) about the conference under Conference 2012.
Laurea produces new competences in the field of service innovations and carries out professionally orientated education, regional development and R&D activities by following the Learning by Developing (LbD) operational model. Laurea employs approximately 500 personnel and has app. 8 000 students.
Laurea is a research-oriented and developmental university of applied sciences that produces new competence. Laurea's pedagogical innovation, the Learning by Developing (LbD) model, is built on a development project that is genuinely rooted in the world of work, which aims to produce new practices and whose progress requires collaboration between lecturers, students and workplace experts. The best projects produce new competence and know-how.
LbD is also a method to fulfil the overall duty given to universities of applied sciences, involving three basic tasks - pedagogy, regional development and research and development - carried out in integrated and merged fashion. Integration means making a solid connection between the three tasks such that all students, lecturers and other staff can participate in all three at the same time.
Laurea works in the highly competitive region of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area. Within the innovation environment of the Metropolitan Area, Laurea is profiled particularly as a developer of regional development influence, R&D linked to cluster development, network and business competence, related operating models, the welfare sector and welfare entrepreneurship. The regional vision for Uusimaa is to become the most competitive, safe and welcoming metropolitan area in northern Europe.
With regard to international relations, Laurea enriches its area of operation with its international networks, R&D programmes and top-level expertise, promoting the internationalization of the broader metropolitan area. In terms of innovation, Laurea strengthens and supports the innovation capacity of its region and creates favorable conditions for the birth of innovation.
Laurea operates in the Greater Helsinki Region in seven units close to good transport connections.
Laurea Leppävaara
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Laurea Tikkurila
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Laurea Porvoo
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Laurea Lohja
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| Laurea Hyvinkää Uudenmaankatu 22 05800 Hyvinkää Tel. +358 (9) 8868 7700 f.(09) 8868 7740 hyvinkaa.info@laurea.fi |
Laurea Otaniemi Metsänpojankuja 3 02130 Espoo Tel. +358 (9) 8868 7500 f. (09) 8868 7501 otaniemi.info@laurea.fi |
Laurea Kerava |
An international Learning by Developing - New Ways to Learn conference is organized at Laurea Leppävaara every year. The conference discusses learning and teaching in higher education, focusing on a different perspective every year. Researchers, developers, leaders, lecturers, students and other representatives of cooperation partners from higher education institutions, private and public sector are warmly welcomed to participate. Workshops and paper sessions are held separately and a pre-conference is arranged to accommodate longer visits, mobility programmes and R&D cooperation meetings. The popular cultural post-conference programme will also be arranged.
The third conference was held on October 12th - 15th, 2010 at Laurea's Leppävaara unit.The Learning by Developing - New Ways to Learn 2010 conference aims to present, discuss, benchmark and develop Future Expertise in Higher Education. The conference has four tracks: Competence Development, Assessment of Learning Outcomes, Multicultural Expertise and Student-Centric R&D&I.
The second conference was held on February 12th and 13th, 2009. It concentrated on Transformative Teaching in Higher Education and featured a benchmarking and networking session for new development programmes and projects, as well as workshops, panel discussion, poster exhibition and a key note lecture. The conference was successful in hosting approximately 60 presentations around the world.
The first conference on February 6th and 7th, 2008, addressed Innovative Pedagogical Models in Higher Education. It gathered 160 participants from over 10 countries. The conference included two key note lectures and versatile workshop sessions in which experts from all over the world presented different kinds of pedagogical models and projects. External evaluation report of Laurea's Learning by Developing -model was published as a part of the conference.
