Aiming to Support Students’ Expertise in Higher Education: A Case Study on Evaluation of Learning Environments with the Model of Domain Learning

Abstract

The aim of this article is to approach the discussion of today’s education and present how these new requirements of education can be reached with innovation pedagogy. We present one of the multidisciplinary learning environments of innovation pedagogy developed and applied at Turku University of Applied Sciences and evaluate how the development of expertise is made possible through this environment, called Project Hatchery concept. The aim of this article is to find a theoretical explanation to our inductive experience of being able to contribute to the development of student’s expertise in higher educational context. The article shows that the Project Hatchery concept seems to function as a natural and fruitful learning environment for the development of students’ expertise.