Sointu, Erkko
Academic degree
KT (PhD, Education)
Title
Professor
Unit
School of Educational Sciences and Psychology
Fields of expertise
Special education (behavioral and emotional strengths, behavioral assessment, support), learning analytics, higher education pedagogy and learning, flipped classroom/flipped learning, technology in education.
Fields of science
516 Educational sciences
Language skills
Finnish, English, Swedish
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Description of activity
Erkko works as professor (ma, i.e., fixed term) in unit of special education at UEF. Erkko’s tasks relate to research (please see fields of expertise), teaching, supervising and enabling research. Additionally, Erkko is co-leader of UEF DIGS RC pedagogy and support for learning research area. Erkko is a work package leader and PI of university context in the learning analytics OAHOT project. Erkko is also a trained teacher with experience of both comprehensive and higher education. Erkko holds title of docent of quantitative research methods in educational sciences to University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland