Heli Nurmi
- teacher, researcher and teacher educator
- retired from the University of Applied Sciences, Teacher Education College – Jyväskylä, Finland.
- grandma 2010 and 2013
This blog has many parts:
- CCK08 student, autumn 2008
- Edinet project 2009
- CCK09 student, autumn 2009
- CritLit 2010 Critical Literacies studies in June-July 2010, my store here
- PLENK2010 autumn 2010, I am the platform store here
- eduMOOC, summer 2011
- CHANGE11 during 2011-2012 here and there, spring 2012
- fslt12 First Steps into Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, summer 2012
Conferences:
Networked learning and Learning Analytics 2011 (March, LAK11) and LAK12 (May)
Coursera studies:
- Fantasy and Science Fiction autumn 2012, Michigan University
- Elearning and Digital Cultures 2013, Edinburgh University, Scotland
What next? I’m totally free since January 2010. Next years will show what we retired people can do 
You can continue to help people like me for example – a younger boy! Thank you
Hi Heli Nurmi!
I’m writing an essay on education for my English class and my subject matter would be to design a school that would’nt be boring, childish, and create imdependent, crtical and active thinkers. I read on-line that Finland was top education system in the world. I was doing research on Finland’s education system and came across your blog. Do you have any thoughful ideas about your countries great education system that I can use in my essay? I am writing from California, USA and would be interested on your input on the subject matter?
Lou:)
About Finnish schools:
I recommend you to listen to these interviews:
http://www.euronews.net/2010/11/05/finland-first-in-class/
I have been teaching adults myself but you can follow some experts about child education in that link.
Did you notice my post with Tarmo Toikkanen’s slideshare about Finnish school system: http://helistudies.edublogs.org/2010/09/26/learning-and-institutions/ it can help you too
Here comes still one link http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/05/finland-schools-curriculum-teaching
and still one: http://hechingerreport.org/content/what-can-we-learn-from-finland-a-qa-with-dr-pasi-sahlberg_4851/
about our teacher education and special education http://www.pearsonfoundation.org/oecd/finland.html
Hope these help!
Here come the voice of Finnish children, a complaints choir from Poikkilaakso
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqNG6VTKRh0
Children must play http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/82329/education-reform-Finland-US
Have to remember this: Zaid’s blog 29.4.2011
http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2011/04/insightful-videos-exploring-why-finnish.html
Still one:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/transporting-finlands-education-success-to-us/2011/10/20/gIQAb21z3L_blog.html
Hi Heli,
Just popped here from the EDCMOOC course, saw your comment about how to use the blog and wanted to congratulate you. I´m a starter on the blog thing but to me your blog looks quite advanced.
Cheers