Laura Helle received her PhD
in education in 2007 from the University of Turku, Finland. The topic of the
doctoral dissertation was project-based learning in higher education. Her
post-doctoral project funded by the Academy of Finland was entitled “Effecting
principled change in medical education”. Her research has dealt with learning
and professional developments in various domains such information systems
design, medicine, nursing, and business administration. Currently, she is
leading a project entitled “How
does ‘teaching without teaching’ compare with course-based instruction? An
evaluation of two curricular models in the domain of business education”.Together with the local Faculty of Medicine, University of Muenster, and the University Medical Center, Utrecht, she is involved in an Erasmus+ strategic partnership (2-year project: 2021-2023) the purpose of which is to develop open-source learning technology in order to facilitate online learning in higher education, with a particular focus on developing learning and teaching in microscopic pathology. She is supervising two doctoral candidates: Riikka Eronen (project on developing learning in aseptics) and Sinikka Inkeroinen-Huhta (project on the relationship between giftedness and moral reasoning). Tenured as
university research fellow at the Department of Teacher Education, her teaching
focuses on research methodology, general didactics, and academic writing.

Research methodology, general didactics, and academic writing.