The 1st international conference on

“Learning Environment and Higher Education in a Global Context – From a Sino-Nordic Perspective”

Venue: Fudan University, Yifu Science and Technology Building 2nd floor

Programme (tentative)

Tuesday the 8th of May:

“Educational Systems: The Nordic Experience in a comparative perspective”

Focus:

  • Introduction to the Nordic Higher Educational System
  • What is the future for Nordic universities?
  • Internationalization? Challenges? Trends of development?

Morning session

Chaired by Professor Zhu Chouwen, Deputy Director, Fudan Foreign Affairs Office

09:00 Opening Session

Welcoming words by the organizers (University of Turku and Fudan University)

09:15 Keynote speeches by a Representative of the Chinese Ministry of Education and a Representative of the Finnish Ministry of Education

10:45Coffee/Tea

11:00“The Nordic Higher Educational System from a Research Point of View”

Introduction lecture: Professor Erno Lehtinen with Response from Assoc. Prof. Lan Jinsong, Tsinghua University

12:00Lunch (Zhengda Restaurant on Fudan Campus)

Afternoon Session

Chair: Professor Erno Lehtinen

14:00“The Internationalization of Education in the Nordic Countries”

  • Professor Seppo Hölttä,Professor of Higher Education Administration and Finance, University of Tampere

Response from a Chinese Professor (Prof. Li Minghua, East-China Normal University)

  • Professor Fan Yihong, Institute of Education Research, Xiamen University " Collaboration among Three Universities: Promoting Higher Education Research and Academic Exchanges"

Response from a Nordic Professor

15:15Coffee

15:30 Introduction lectures "Technological Environments for Teaching and Learning"

  • Assoc. Prof. Lin Rongri (Institute of Higher Education, Fudan University)
  • Professor Sven Ludvigsen, Director of InterMedia, University of Oslo "Digital and Problem Oriented Learning Environments and New Forms of Assessment"
  • Professor Erkki Sutinen, Educational Technology/Department of Computer Science and Statistics, University of Joensuu

17:00: Wrap-up of Day one

17:20Bus back to hotel or directly to dinner

18:30Dinner

Wednesday the 9th of May:

“Sino-Nordic Perspectives on Learning Environments”

Focus:

  • Comparison of Chinese and Nordic Higher Education system
  • International students education: theory and practice
  • Future cooperation

Morning Session

Chaired by Ms. Yao Yanjing, College of Foreign Languages and Literature, Fudan University

09:00Introduction lecture:

  • Professor Roger Säljö, Department of Education, University of Gothenburg

Response from Prof. Fan Yihong, Xiamen University

Discussion

09:45 Introduction lecture:

  • Prof. Yan Fengqiao, Institute of Higher Education, Peking University: “Quality Issues in the Chinese Mass Higher Education”

Response from a Nordic Professor

10:30Coffee Break

10:45:3 Thematic Presentations

  • Jan Olof Nilsson and Kjell Nilsson, Department of Sociology, University of Lund: "New Internationalization and E-Learning: Competition versus Cooperation"

Response from Ms. Dong Xiuhua, Shanghai Institute of Education Science

  • Prof. Lu Peigen, Director, Institute of Higher Education, Xi’an Jiaotong University: Different Needs for Studying Abroad – Comparison of Mainland and Hong Kong Students”

Response from a Nordic Professor

  • Docent Gun-Marie Frånberg, Department for Interactive Media and learning, University of Umeå “Teacher Education in the Nordic Countries - Challenges for the Future”

Response from Prof. Yan Fengqiao, Peking University

12:15Lunch at Zhengda Restaurant on Fudan Campus

Afternoon Session

14:00

  • Assoc. Prof. Zhang Xiaopeng (Institute of Higher Education, Fudan University)
  • "Application and Assessment of Educational Technologies" Elza Dunkels, researcher, Department of Interactive Media and Learning, University of Oslo "The Digital Native as a Student. Implications for Teacher Education"
  • Reseacher Madelene Nordlund: "Active labour market policy and unemployment scarring - A ten-year Swedish panel study" (???)

15:20 Coffee Break and presentations of posters by Chinese doctoral and Master’s students

16:00Final discussion for further cooperation

16:30Conference wrap-up and closing.

Thursday the 10th of May

Information Day and Expert’s Forum

All members of the Nordic Centre are invited to present their international programmes

in stands at the conference venue. In the stands there is information concerning

international doctoral and master’s degree programmes offered at their institution

Parallel sessions

09:00Presentation:

European Bologna system in higher education and the structure of graduate level education in the Nordic countries

Discussion

09:30Presentation

What are the steps to apply for graduate programmes in the Nordic universities and what are the realities that the student faces when studying in a doctoral or master’s level programme in a Nordic country.

Questions and answers

10:00Coffee

  • Introductions by former (Chinese) students studying in the Nordic Countries (Venue: 2nd floor multifunctional hall)

09:00: Separate Round-table expert’s forum

Chaired by Professor Krista Varantola, Rector of University of Tampere

Round-table with representatives from Chinese and Finnish Ministries of Education and a selected forum of experts from both China and the Nordic Countries. (Venue: 2nd floor meeting room)

For the themes in the Round Table discussion topics have been suggested as:
I. Quality
II. Mobility
a. student mobility
b. programme mobility
c. teachers, researchers and staff mobility
III. Research collaboration
a. research work collaboration - research school education
b. joint research programmes
IV. Financing research collaboration

12:00Conference programme finishes but information stands open until 13:00