Educational Technology at the University of Tartu

Educational Technology at the University of Tartu Page dedicated to the activities carried out in the Master's programme in Educational Technology at

We are proud of our Yaroslav!
05/08/2026

We are proud of our Yaroslav!

Some time ago Pirjo and Emanuele wrote an opinion piece for the Estonian media, arguing that maybe we should see AI as a...
04/07/2026

Some time ago Pirjo and Emanuele wrote an opinion piece for the Estonian media, arguing that maybe we should see AI as an infrastructure rather than as just another tool. The article was subsequently selected for republication by the European Commission's adult learning platform (EPALE), making it available to a broader audience in several languages.

As Pirjo put it “it seems that there is room for conversations about AI that move beyond the familiar question of adoption, productivity and efficiency, and towards what kind of infrastructure it is becoming.”

Beyond tools: understanding AI in a postdigital world, by Emanuele Bardone and Pirjo Mõttus

Last week Pirjo and Emanuele took part in the international conference on "Postdigital Backlash: Past, Present, Future c...
02/07/2026

Last week Pirjo and Emanuele took part in the international conference on "Postdigital Backlash: Past, Present, Future conference" in Zagreb (Croatia).
In our research and teaching, the term "postdigital" has acquired more and more centrality. It is a useful term to better understand the present but also to see where we are heading to as society.
Pirjo wrote something that is worth sharing here as well.

Commenting on the general topic of the conference that revolved around backlash, Pirjo clarifies what postdigital may help us realise:

"there is no meaningful "back" in backlash. There is no return to a pre-digital classroom waiting for us. Digital technologies are already woven into how we teach, learn and live. So perhaps, indeed, it’s not backlash at all, but forwardlash."

Being postdigital urges us to look forward and "find new ways of living with technologies critically, creatively and on our own terms."

In her presentation, Pirjo explored the idea of a quiet backlash - "the everyday mundane ways people subtly rework anticipations that come with technologies rather than simply accepting or rejecting them."

Being postdigital means that the promises of digital technologies are not simply taken for granted, but tinkered with.

And in relation to AI, Pirjo writes that it "has become an oddly convenient shorthand for anxieties that long predate AI itself. We often seem to focus on technology as the problem but many of the debates we're having are really about something else. They are about what we value in education, what we recognise as learning, what we consider fair and even what we imagine a "proper" human to be." Pirjo Mõttus

As the song goes:"Closing time, every new beginningcomes from some other beginning's end".Today some of our freshly grad...
18/06/2026

As the song goes:
"Closing time, every new beginning
comes from some other beginning's end".

Today some of our freshly graduates were able to make it to Tartu for the graduation ceremony.

A special mention to Margit Kiisler. She has never appeared on this page. But her wisdom and care have always been with us. Especially when we were in need of a good word or a solution for a problem.

This is really the end of this academic year, folks!
Take care and see you again in August for another (hopefully) good year :)

Congrats to Doris and her supervisors - Margus and Katrin!
16/06/2026

Congrats to Doris and her supervisors - Margus and Katrin!

Tartu is getting ready for the graduation week! Are YOU ready?
10/06/2026

Tartu is getting ready for the graduation week! Are YOU ready?

09/06/2026

Well well...with yesterday's EdTech MA defences, another year has come to an end! This was our 9th cohort. Time flies (and waits for nobody).

What can we say? Every year it kind of feels the same. Yes, different people, different stories. But in the end it is the magic of "people plus edTech", which is what we cherish in our master's programme.

And in two months, a new cohort will start this 10-month marathon. But before that the summer break!

Last week, Pirjo and Emanuele were in Warsaw for the meeting of the IMPRESS-U REAPv research project led by Julia Melker...
05/06/2026

Last week, Pirjo and Emanuele were in Warsaw for the meeting of the IMPRESS-U REAPv research project led by Julia Melkers from Arizona State University. A few intense but highly rewarding days of coordinating and thinking.
The project brings together several academic institutions from Ukraine, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, the United States, and Lithuania.
The core issue addressed by the research teams is the public values that guide academic engineering as both a profession and a research enterprise. The project also examines the public value innovations developed by and with academic engineers. All that is explored across the aforementioned countries - Ukraine, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
(Photos taken by Marcin Gorski, who is one of the academic engineers of the Polish team)

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