Academic degree: PhD, Lic. Phil., MSc, MA, Certified teacher
Marjaana Mäkelä (she/her) is a Principal Lecturer at the School of Professional Teacher Education of Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences, Finland. She is the Administrative Coordinator of the first European Joint Master program of Haaga-Helia, the MBA “Artificial Intelligence for Business Transformation.” In the Ulysseus European University Alliance, Dr Mäkelä co-chairs the Committee for Joint Programs, coordinating curriculum development and administrative planning of joint and double degrees of Ulysseus. She is the chairperson of the Board of Academic Recognition and a member of the Joint Educational Committee in Ulysseus. In the FOREU4ALL project of the European Commission, she contributes to two topical groups: European Degree and Joint Programs, and Quality Assurance. At Haaga-Helia, she is a member of the research group on transnational higher education and pedagogy. She represents Finland as an individual expert in the European Recognition of Prior Learning Network.
Dr. Mäkelä has more than 30 years of experience of internationalization of education. In pedagogical development of higher education, her areas of expertise focus on curriculum design, lifelong learning, RPL and VNFIL, and quality assurance. She was actively developing the first implementations of work-integrated higher education programs in Finland and coordinated the first European Approach accreditation of a Finnish UAS institution. She has a transdisciplinary research orientation with a PhD in consumer studies (marketing and management), a MSc in sociology and business administration, and a MA in French philology.
Specialisation: European Joint Programs, curriculum development, recognition of learning, validation, professional teacher education, quality assurance