Mari Murtonen
Professor of Higher Education Pedagogy & Leader of the UTUPEDA Centre
Yliopistopedagogiikka marimur@utu.fi +358 29 450 2271 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2381-5731 |
University pedagogy, learning and teaching in different higher education environments, development of scientific and methodological thinking, belief systems in learning, educational theory.
University pedagogy: development of teachers' pedagogical expertise and students' thinking skills.
Professor of Higher Education Pedagogy at the Tampere University 2019-2020. Adjunct Professor at the University of Helsinki since 2009. PhD 2005 and Master of Education 1997, University of Turku. Researcher posts during 1996-2018 at the Universities of Turku, Helsinki, Jyväskylä and California at Berkeley. Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of University Pedagogy in 2015-2017. Editorial board member of the Educational Research Review. Leader of the UNIPS digital learning solution
project 2017-2019.
Main research areas: 1) Teachers' development of pedagogical expertise in traditional and digital environments, 2) Students' development of scientific thinking and research skills in university education, 3) Conceptions, beliefs and attitudes on knowledge, learning and
teaching, 4) Theoretical questions of education, e.g. the concept of learning outcomes.
Wide experience on university level curriculum planning, organizing education and educational programs, and
teaching in traditional and digital environments.
- Fitting in or burning out? : Doctoral students' motivations, resources and the demands of academic work (2025) Debates in Doctoral Education : Challenges and Opportunities Nori, Hanna; Filippou, Kalypso; Murtonen, Mari; Vanttaja, Markku
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Learning to focus on students: the effect of pedagogical training on university teachers’ visual attention (2025)
- Teaching in Higher Education
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Metacognitive regulation: emergence, focus, and function in interprofessional collaborative learning (2025)
- Advances in Health Sciences Education
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Opiskelijoiden kokemuksia generatiivisen tekoälyn hyödyllisyydestä ja luotettavuudesta tutkimustaitojen oppimisessa (2025)
- Yliopistopedagogiikka
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The interaction between professional vision and conceptual change in higher education teaching – self-reports, videos, and eye tracking as study methods (2025) Teacher Professional Vision : Empirical Perspectives Södervik, Ilona; Vilppu, Henna; Heinonen, Neea; Murtonen, Mari
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Exploring the variation of educational developers' teaching-related perceptions in higher education (2024)
- International Journal for Academic Development
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Importance of regulation and the quality of teacher learning in student-centred teaching (2024)
- Teacher Development
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Korkeakoulupedagogiikan kehittäjien käsityksiä yhteisöllisyydestä pedagogisen kehittymisen kontekstissa (2024)
- Kasvatus : Suomen kasvatustieteellinen aikakauskirja
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The Effects of Short Online Pedagogical Courses on University Teachers’ Conceptions of Learning and Engaging Students During Lectures (2024)
- Online Learning Journal
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Building a framework of a supportive pedagogical culture for teaching and pedagogical development in higher education (2023)
- Higher Education
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Content Learning in an Interprofessional Environment for Health and Social Care Students: The Role of Learning Activities and Group Work Appraisals (2023)
- Education Sciences
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Developing Higher Education Pedagogy as a Pioneer (2023) Narratives of Academics’ Personal Journeys in Contested Spaces : Leadership Identity in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Murtonen Mari
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Korkeakoulupedagogiikan kouluttajien ja kehittäjien osaamista kehittämässä: Kokko-hankkeen anti ja tulevaisuuden kehitystarpeet (2023)
- Yliopistopedagogiikka
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - OPEN KULMAsta foorumi oman opetuksemme kehittämiselle (2023)
- Kas!-blogi
(E1 Popularised article) - Short pedagogical training in supporting university teachers' professional vision: A comparison of prospective and current faculty teachers (2023)
- Instructional Science
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Suomenkielisen tutkimuksen sekä kehittämis- ja kokeilutarkastelujen avulla parempaa yliopistopedagogiikkaa (2023)
- Yliopistopedagogiikka
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - University teachers' profiles based on digital innovativeness and instructional adaptation to COVID-19: Association with learning patterns and teacher demographics (2023)
- Education and Information Technologies
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Yliopistopedagoginen näkökulma tekoälyyn (2023)
- Turun yliopiston blogi
(Other publication) - Boosting each other in digital gadgets! (2022)
- UP! -blog
(E1 Popularised article) - Development of University Teachers’ Professional Vision of Students’ Prior Knowledge During a Short Pedagogical Training (2022)
- International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)