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Our guest, Maria Beatriz Silva holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon (ULisboa) and is currently an Associate Professor with tenure at the Manufacturing and Industrial Management Unit of the Mechanical Engineering Department of IST. She is also an integrated member of the Associated Laboratory for Energy, Transports […]

For the past six years, Lidia Rauramo is an educator at Aalto Ventures Program, Aalto University, specializing in design thinking, leadership, self-leadership, sustainable entrepreneurship, and team building. She is a co-creator and main teacher of the “Good Life Engine” course – a recognized course on self-leadership and well-being for students and staff at Aalto University. […]

Teresa Rizzi is a master’s student in Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Trento, Italy. She has a bachelor degree in psychology from the University of Milan and her main research interests regard user experience and costumers satisfaction from a psychological perspective; that’s why she always tries to gain data from several different points of […]

Nancy Otero (www.nancyotero.net) is the Founder and CEO of KitCo, San Francisco, CA, (USA). Nancy’s biggest passion is human learning, she has spent the last fifteen years working with educational organizations designing environments that mix technology with project-based learning. Nancy was the Founding Director of Learning Design at Portfolio School, a project-based learning school in […]

C. J. Yeh is a New York based artist who constantly challenges the boundaries of contemporary art. Yeh’s artwork has been exhibited internationally at prominent museums and art festivals such as Art Basel, MAXXI Museum, and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. He started his artistic career in NetArt and continues to embrace experimentation […]

Deren Guler is a researcher, designer, and educator based in New York. Designing accessible tools to help people re-imagine the world motivates her work. She has collaborated with universities, museums, and events internationally to organize and teach design and engineering workshops. She is the founder and CEO of Teknikio- a Brooklyn-based EdTech company that creates […]

Oana Velcu-Laitinen is a NeuroLeadership coach and trainer focusing on creative thinking to enhance work performance. Her clients include researchers, change leaders, entrepreneurs, and individuals seeking career growth. Oana holds a PhD in Economics from the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland. During her doctoral research on implementing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems in […]

Lara Riefle is a doctoral student at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, where she investigates individuals’ interaction with AI-based systems. Taking a human-centric perspective on human-AI collaboration, she explores how insights about individual user characteristics can be leveraged to provide the best possible user experience. In three years of research, she has applied methods ranging from […]

Tania Rivilis (b. 1986, Ukraine) Tania Rivilis began painting at the age of 27, after moving to Germany in 2012. Since 2015, she began taking part in art shows and exhibitions around the world. Tania’s paintings are now part of museum, gallery, and private collections all over the world, such as Jonathan and Stuart Hyman […]

Alkyoni Baglatzi is the founder of Spotlight on Innovation (Spotin) (spotin.org), a non profit organization based in Greece focusing on the development of innovative learning activities in various field of actions. Location and geospatial information play a pivotal role in all activities of Spotin whose main focus is on bringing together ideas, methods and people […]

Having recently taken on the role of the iconic British painter David Hockney in the new HBO Max series MINX ~ Laurence Fuller is best known for his lead roles in feature films “Road To The Well”, “Apostle Peter & The Last Supper” and “Paint It Red”, Laurence Fuller actually got his start in British […]

Hello! Here is the new episode of the Cloud Reachers where Tomi is joined by Fatma Souissi to have a conversation about students’ perspectives about learning, education & the future. Fatma is an electrical engineering student in TU Darmstadt. Being an international student herself, she is aware of the importance of intercultural communication in social […]

What are some of the current challenges related to teaching and learning in business schools? How does this relate to academic publishing? In this episode, we had a chat with Kathy Lund Dean and Jeanie M. Forray who served as the co-editors of Journal of Management Education between 2014 and 2021. Relevant insights for anyone […]

Why is it important to address issues related to migration in business school courses? How might one go about doing it in a meaningful way? In this episode, we had a chat with Aida Hajro, Milda Zilinskaite and Paul Baldassari who recently co-authored an article titled “Addressing the Elephant in the Room: Global Migration and […]

What is participatory scenario planning? How can we utilize it in education? In this episode, Sam Poskitt takes us through a paper he and his co-authors recently published in Futures. If you want to develop your participatory scenario planning skills, this episode is for you! Link to the article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/articl…16328721000197

How did the current Covid-19 pandemic influence design education? As a consequence, how was design education changed? In this episode, Nicole Lotz and Derek Jones, editors of the special issue “Alternative Studios: Design Education Changes in 2020” published in Design and Technology Education: An International Journal, reflect on the special issue’s contents and discuss the […]

Miikka J. Lehtonen (Rikkyo University College of Business) is an associate professor of strategy and management and one of the co-founders of the award-winning Nordic Rebels movement aimed at goosebumpifying teaching and learning. He received his Ph.D. from Aalto University School of Business in 2014. Prior to his current position, Miikka was working as an […]

Dr. Patrick O’Shea is currently an associate professor in instructional technology at Appalachian State University and an educational consultant working on Augmented Reality and Distributed Learning educational initiatives (e.g. student-authored textbooks written collaboratively with wiki technology). Before that he held a post-doctoral fellowship in learning technologies at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, where he directed […]

Akseli is a learning enthusiast and a specialist on online learning. He is on a mission to make learning possible for everyone, no matter the conditions. Akseli has been developing the approach of learning design at FITech Network University, coordinated by Aalto University. He has published the open source Design Book for Online Learning to […]

Werner Kuhn holds the Jack and Laura Dangermond Endowed Chair for Geographic Information Science and is a professor in the Department of Geography at UC Santa Barbara. His research and teaching are aimed at enabling transdisciplinary research through spatial information and computing. Before joining UC Santa Barbara in 2013, Werner was a professor of geoinformatics […]

Here is the new episode of Cloud Reachers where Tomi is joined by Sabba N. Quidwai to talk about her research on design thinking in k12 education, traveling during the pandemic and how to master your mindset. Sabba wants to live in a world driven by empathy. Her mission is to work with organizations to […]

Belen Prado is a Ph.D. student at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany, where she researches philosophical aspects of Machine Learning and temporarily teaches “History and Epistemology of Machine Learning”. Her research activity is focused on the study of a philosophical-theoretical understanding of machine learning by tracing the reciprocal exchange of information between humans, digital machines, and […]

For the past 5 years, Jennifer has worked as a digital artist, fulfilling an array of roles in digital media production for museum and entertainment exhibitions internationally (including King Tut: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh International traveling exhibition, Walt Disney Hall of Presidents, and New York Historical Society Center for Women’s History). After working in […]

David is an senior university lecturer at Aalto University School of Business Department of Accounting.

Cloud Reachers podcast guest today is Julie-Anne Gandier. Julie-Anne is a postdoctoral fellow at Aalto University School of Chemical Engineering. She is curious about many things, pursuing her questions across disciplinary lines. She studies the protein molecular building blocks that assemble to create structures and materials in Nature. To do so she draws from methods, […]

Today we joined by Dale Fodness to discuss a blended learning.

Gottfried Zimmermann is professor of mobile user interaction at the Stuttgart Media University, Germany. His research and teaching focuses on human-computer interaction, in particular on usability and accessibility aspects. He leads the Responsive Media Experience (REMEX) research group where he heads national and international research projects on digital accessibility, personalization and eLearning. He is an […]

In this episode we discuss the future of design education with Hani Asfour.

In this episode our co-host Miikka J. Lehtonen is joined by Thomas Boillat to discuss about design and technology in a medical school.

Today we are meeting with Laura Sivula to discuss about challenge-based learning, and the future of work. Laura splits her time at Aalto University between working as Head of Summer School, Program Director for the Information Technology Program (ITP), and working as a Strategy Lead for Aalto University’s strategic initiative in the area of teaching […]

Our guest, Jana Pejoska is a new media design researcher at the Learning Environments Research Group in the MediaLab, Aalto University. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Art History and Archeology at the Faculty of Philosophy at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, North Macedonia and a master’s degree in Digital Culture from the […]

Our guest Sabba wants to live in a world driven by empathy. Her mission is to work with organizations to use design thinking to design places of learning that create passionate and curious life long learners ready to tackle the challenges and embrace the opportunities today’s world has to offer.

Isabell Fries is a communications expert and Deputy Spokeswoman of CSU in Munich, a moderator and a speaker. After having graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, Politics and Economics from Zeppelin University in 2017 with semesters abroad in Odense and Brussels she finished her MSc at Copenhagen Business School in 2019. Due to […]

Cloud Reachers is all about the future of learning, and the changing roles of teachers and learners. Hosted by Tomi Kauppinen and Miikka J. Lehtonen from the Finland-based multidisciplinary Aalto University. Inspiring educators and education designers all over the world are creating engaging learning settings and experiences. In Cloud Reachers podcast we sit down with […]

Inspiring educators and education designers all over the world are creating engaging learning settings and experiences. In Cloud Reachers podcast we sit down with experts to discuss what they are doing to push the envelope on transforming learning across different organizations.

Showtime! This is the first ever episode of the first ever season of Cloud Reachers. Hosts Tomi Kauppinen and Miikka J. Lehtonen share their thoughts on future of learning, their personal experiences about different learning designs, and plans for this first episodes of Cloud Reachers. Inspiring educators and education designers all over the world are […]