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I am an Estonian researcher in Educational technology. Contact me kpata@tlu.ee.
My experience in the field started at 1994 as a virtual teacher in learning environment Miksike what we developed with collegues. The best part was winning the Stockholm Challenge award in 2000 in the field of Education. The environment is still one of the most actively used learning environments in Estonia.
From 2000-2007 I worked at research positions at the University of Tartu, Science Didactics Department doing various science-related studies. During Tartu times i did my MSc study about decision-making role-play in chatroom and PhD study about scaffolding patterns in chat systems at the University of Turku.
From 2006 my job as a senior researcher of educational technology is related with Tallinn University. From 2006-2008 i was actively involved in iCamp project of IST 6th framework. We developed and tested empirically a framework of teaching self-directing, collaborating and networking competences in cross-institutional social software settings. The final deliverable provides the teaching model.
From 2009 i lead the pedagogical ideas of IST project IntelLEO – Intelligent Learning Organization. We will test collaboration and objectives’ harmonization in the a hybrid organization model consisting of universities an enterprises.
Our basic funding and grants cover developing distributed learning environments and investigating learning in these hybrid systems.
I teach master level courses Self-directed Learning with Web 2.0 tools, Research Trends on Educational Technology, Ecology of narratives and methodological courses.
I belong to the KERG workgroup of the University of Tallinn. My interests are related with educational usage of new spaces in the web and in the world enriched with virtual dimensions. I think about swarm phenomena in Web 2.0, reusing workflow patterns i networks, semiotic aspects of learning systems, affordances and activity theory, hybrid ecology, intersubjectivity formation.
History of my thought until 2008 is here:
Kai Pata's idea development
Recently i am working with swarm phenomena in hybrid narrative ecosystems and knowledge conversion in hybrid organization model.
Some of my publications are here.
Dear Kai Pata::
I am a PhD student at the University of the Arts, London who is exploring online spaces in relation to emerging art practices, and I just wanted to let you know that I’m reading your blog. It’s both fascinating and useful. So much relevant information! I look forward to commenting on specific posts soon.
Hey,
your comments are always welcome. There may be some common ideas and first experiments in relation to our ideas in hybrid space and meaning-creation with images and text in there.
k.
Hi!
I am a doctoral student from Pepperdine University in California, USA. Your blog is fantastic and so informative. Just want you to know that I too have been reading and will participate soon. So grateful for your thoughts.
It is very nice to know that someone found it useful. If to study new media I think i as a researcher must really believe into its merits and try to use it in my research..mainly for myself…or to evoke ideas among other people.
I came here after google “alert” e-mailed me link to your latest blog post. It is good illustration of how amazing infospace is. Despite i am about 5 minutes here i found your blog interesting.
[...] was responsible of coordinating the State of Art deliverable. The first overview was composed by: Kai Pata, Mart Laanpere, Jelena Jovanovic, Vladan Devedzic, Emmanuel Jamin, Dragan Gasevic, Marek Hatala, [...]
Kai,
I am writing final chapters of my dissertation about participants experience using social networking for learning and find your work and writings joyful and deeply interesting. I strongly agree with you response to the comment above that as researchers and educators we must believe in the merits of using social networking in our personal learning experiences so that we can appropriately facilitate learners who are new to the possibilities. I will continue to learn from your work and respond to your ideas.
Hi Wayne,
i am glad to have heard i have one reader of my scientific half-ready work. Your topic seems extremely interesting and i hope to hear more about it.