Educational Psychology Lab Oulu

Our research lab is an expanding learning community where researchers and faculty members work collaboratively to produce scientific knowledge and to prepare students from various backgrounds for productive educational and occupational paths. Conducting meticulous studies at the intersection of education, psychological fields and technology, we emphasize the understanding and improvement of various learning processes, including interdisciplinary and collaborative learning in our constantly changing society. 

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Learning and Learning Processes
Faculty of Education and Psychology

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Our research contributes leadership, mentoring and consultation to develop learners’ capabilities to engage proactively in different learning processes. We emphasize the importance of attaining skills in regulating individual, environmental and social challenges to promote psychological well-being. We encourage educational discourse that considers individual backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives in the community. 

The research provides knowledge about educational pathways and choices on both the individual and cohort level. We generate new understanding about utilizing learning analytics as a support for learning, guidance and leadership. We investigate how the knowledge produced by the analysis of register data and existing large datasets can be used to guide and support people to reach their personal goals and to lead organisations with knowledge. We work in multidisciplinary collaboration to design and develop digital solutions, and to study user experiences.  

We investigate the boundaries and contexts bridging technologies and learners to understand the use of technology in teaching and learning. Further, to investigate and scaffold the learning of knowledge work competence, we have developed scalable research instruments and theoretical and pedagogical models implemented in higher and secondary education.   

Our mission is to 

  • Study and teach strategies for psychological well-being.  
  • Build contemporary designs for learning to close the gap between renewing work-life and educational practices. 
  • Facilitate guidance and lifelong learning through expanding knowledge of learning pathways and available choices.  
  • Provide theoretical and methodological approaches to better understand learners and learning within different contexts and in relation to new technologies. 
  • Implement contemporary theoretical understanding to the design of digital solutions and their use through multidisciplinary collaboration.  

 Find out more in current projects:  

Past projects:

Hanni Muukkonen

Anceli Kaveri

Anni Silvola

Suvi-Tuuli Hukkanen

Ismail Celik

Danyu Yang