A SINO-FINNISH CASE: WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED IN LAUNCHING A DOUBLE MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME

: Guo X, Taajamaa V, Westerlund T, Zheng LR, Tenhunen H, Salakoski T

: L. Gómez Chova, A. López Martínez, I. Candel Torres

: International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies

: Barcelona

: 2015

: EDULEARN proceedings

: EDULEARN15: 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION AND NEW LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES

: EDULEARN PROC

: 1339

: 1347

: 9

: 978-84-606-8243-1

: 2340-1117

To carry out research and education in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) area, Fudan University (China) and the University of Turku (Finland) jointly launched a double Master's degree programme in Information and Communication Technology called FuTuRe (Fudan-Turku Rethinking Education). The programme aims at providing world-class engineering education to meet the demands of skilled engineers set by the modern and global information society. Our research will build on and contribute to previous research done about double degree programmes by focusing on the critical factors in creating an international double degree programme from the perspectives of the programme leadership, faculty and most importantly the participating students. We discuss and analyse key findings of designing, implementing and running the programme especially concentrating on the curriculum design, learning methods and programme management not to forget cultural perspectives. We answer the question why to promote international cooperation, how to develop double degree programmes especially in the Sino-Finnish context, how to find strategic fit between the Finnish and Chinese education systems, what barriers existed in launching this programme and what measures have been taken to solve them.