| Abstract [eng] |
Universities have to respond to the needs of society, governments, companies and individuals. The main activities in universities are fundamental or applied research and studies, providing competencies and knowledge necessary for students’ professional careers. Therefore, universities should prepare future professionals for collective activities in their future work places – organizations. Universities which base their ethos on modern educational paradigm practice student-oriented studies. Students and the teacher co-construct the curriculum and peer-learning is employed for deeper learning and better results. The whole study process is based on creating empowering educational environments which engage and stimulate deep learning. According to Salmon (2000), effective university educational environments have to promote collaborative learning, empower deeper learning, engage students in real problem-solving to develop skills that are necessary in real life environments and provide students with the experiences, challenges and opportunities which occur in the 21st century. It requires creating real organizational environments (Munro and Cook, 2008), and even if students feel very engaged in their team performance and problem-solving, they still identify themselves as university students, not as members of an organization (Kahu, 2013). Thus, there is a essential to define how university educational environments that empower students’ organizational learning should be designed. Various educational systems, such as collaborative learning, problem learning, service learning can be used for developing organisational learning competence, but there is a lack of a holistic educational system dedicated for this purpose only. This dissertation is dedicated to answer this interdisciplinary research problem: how should the educational environments for organisational learning be designed to empower students’ individual and collective learning with the purpose to develop subject knowledge and organisational learning competences? The research object is students’ individual and organisational learning in the educational environments for students’ organizational learning. The research aim is to disclose students’ individual and collective learning in the educational environments for students’ organizational learning. |
