Description
Tallinn University (TLU) is the third largest public university in Estonia with 7000 students in 6 institutes and two colleges.
The Centre for Educational Technology (CET), established in 1998 is an interdisciplinary R&D unit within the School of Digital Technologies of TLU. International staff of CET (33 in total) consists of 18 senior researchers, 5 software developers, 4 post-doc researchers, some part-time employees and a group of postgraduate students. CET has created several digital tools for learning, used widely in Estonian schools, universities and companies.
The main ongoing research projects in CET are related with developing the next-generation distributed learning environments involving interoperable social media tools, digital textbooks, learning analytics and interaction design in distributed learning environments, digital competences of teachers and learners, the use of big/open/linked data in evidence-based educational innovation, technology-enhanced
mathematics education. TLU has good contacts with schools, colleges and universities in Estonia and could provide a testbed for national-scale implementation and validation of networking solutions based on social media. CET hosts a recently founded research group MIDI focusing on didactics of mathematics and informatics.
