Pia Kiikeri works as a lecturer at Haaga-Helia Professional Teacher Education College. She holds a Doctor of Education (KT) degree, is a vocational teacher and a vocational special needs teacher.
Kiikeri has 30 years of experience in vocational education and its development. For the past seven years, she has worked as a lecturer at the Professional Teacher Education College, developing, among other things, various artificial intelligence and digital pedagogical learning and teaching solutions, and works in various research and development projects and teams. In her doctoral dissertation Kiikeri (2025) discusses The Joy of Learning in Online Studies in Vocational Education. Kiikeri has worked as a project manager in several projects and has also been awarded nationally as a developer, such as the Pinni-Kultakampa Reputation Award 2021.
Kiikeri leads Haaga-Helia's Digital Pedagogy Research Group. The research group produces research-based knowledge on digital pedagogy and focuses particularly on current phenomena related to pedagogy, artificial intelligence, and digital transformation in education. In addition, she is a member of Haaga-Helia's KOPEDA Higher Education Pedagogy Research Group.
Special expertise: the joy of learning, vocational pedagogy, higher education pedagogy, artificial intelligence, digital pedagogy, special education pedagogy, positive pedagogy, entrepreneurial pedagogy, and motivation and assessment.