Media and emerging technologies in teaching and learning 

Our main research areas are:
1) Media in teaching and learning
2) Media in society and
3) Media and psychosocial well-being. 

Our research of media in teaching and learning focuses on online and hybrid teaching, digital pedagogy, game-based and playful learning environments, and the educational use of simulations, extended reality (XR), augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), mixed reality (MR) and AI. 

Our research targeting the connections between media, society and psychosocial well-being addresses the ways people use media and emerging technologies, as well as new literacies in digitalised society. People living in sparsely populated and rural areas are of our particular interest. 

EDUCA-Doc -Doctoral Education Pilot

EDUCA-Doc Doctoral Education Pilot is part of the national doctoral education pilot in Finland for the period 2024-2027. The national aim is to develop new practices of doctoral education to better meet the needs of the society and work market in Finland.

EDUCA-DOC

Media Education Hub experts

Projects

The VPST project brings virtual technology to Finnish Lapland for northern partners. 

Duration:1/08/2023 – 31/12/2025

Project collaborators: Lapland UAS and University of Lapland

Project persons:

  • University lecturer Satu-Maarit Korte, project manager(LY)
  • Professor Heli Ruokamo

Project in funded by EU .

Website:

VPST -Virtual Production Studio Technologies

 

The REAP project focuses on enhancing the psychosocial well-being of Northern children and youth affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. It will develop a COVID-19 recovery curriculum centred on students’ voices and agency, employing digital storytelling in conjunction with virtual and augmented teaching pedagogies.

Duration: 01.02.2023 – 31.01.2026

Project persons:

  • University Lecturer Satu-Maarit Korte
  • Professor Pigga Keskitalo
  • Professor Tuija Turunen

Funding: Government of Canada’s New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF)

Website: Home | The REAP Project

HEI-SAMI – Sami Language in Higher Education in Suburban Areas -project concentrates on promoting Nordic network building of universities working with endangered Sami language education.

Project persons

  • Professor Pigga Keskitalo (PI)
  • University Lecturer Satu-Maarit Korte

Partners Torjer Olsen and Lene Antonsen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Christina Storm Mienna and Christer Stoor, Umeå University and Ilona Kivinen, University of Helsinki

Website: HEI-SAMI – Sami language in higher education in suburban areas – University of Lapland

Last updated: 20.10.2025