Irmeli Pietilä, PhD

• Doctor of Science degree in entrepreneurship
• Master of Science degree in technology
• Qualified vocational teacher and special needs teacher
• Teacher trainer since 2005

Irmeli’s areas of expertise include learning design, digital pedagogy, design thinking, playful learning, and peer mentoring. She enjoys face-to-face interaction with participants in the classroom and in the woods, but she is equally at home online and in hybrid encounters. For her virtual is real. She has decades of experience in upper secondary level and higher education, teaching subjects like math, IT, business studies and entrepreneurship. Since 2006 she has worked as a teacher trainer. She has facilitated 60 credits vocational teacher training programs for international participants in Finland, Colombia and South Africa, and shorter trainings & workshops in Vietnam, China, Japan and in several countries in Europe.