Greetings from Jyv

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Greetings from Jyväskylä of Finland
Pekka Makkonen

• Ceremony on March 13 in Cadiz

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Content

• Introduction
• IT faculty in Jyväskylä
• Possibilities of Jyväskylä
• Lifelong learning

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Introduction

• Thank you Carlos that I am invited to be here as
  a visiting lecturer
• Erasmus-exchange of the EU
• Between Computer science of Cadiz and IT faculty
  of Jyväskylä
• Student exchange
• Teacher exchange

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IT faculty at University of Jyväskylä

• Mobile biz and technology program
• Two departments
• Computer science and information systems dep.
• Information systems,e-commerce and digital media
• Minor subject economics and business
  administration
• Dep. of mathematical IT
• Computer and mobile networks, algorithms and
  programming, optimizing
• Minor subject mathematics

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Possibilities of Jyväskylä

• The globe is smaller and smaller all the time and
  that s why everyone should be more international
• How can you do it in Jyväskylä?
• Mobile technology and business programs courses
• Other IT courses through English
• Economics and business courses throught English
• Different culture
• Nordic cultural background with some Russian
  influence
• Lutheran religion background
• Finnish special characters
• Unique language
• Sauna
• Finns usually less talkative than Spanish people

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Lifelong learning

• Dogs years of IT
• Compared to other areas the development is
  quicker in the field of IT
• Learning to learn
• Metacognitive skills
• Awareness how you learn
• Study circles have been suggested for running
  lifelong learning
• Better-focused learning by using knowledge
  management system
• Idol-server and application for different areas