ICT Driving Licence at the University of Helsinki

EAHIL Conference, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Theme: ”Education and Learning”

13.9.2006

Tiina HeinoMedical FacultyNational Library of Health Sciences – Terkko http://www.terkko.helsinki.fi

Contents of the presentation

Background

Coordination and participants

ICT Driving Licence: its structure and contents

Evaluation of the project

Case: ICT Driving Licence at the Medical Faculty

ICT Driving Licence – Why?

Bologna process

The reform of the degree structure (two cycles)

Start autumn 2005

Necessary ICT knowledge and skills for all new students

The effective use of educational technology

The effective use of electronic library

Official and systematic

3 ECTS (common & faculty tailored together)

ICT Driving Licence – Who?

A shared project of the University of Helsinki

Project Coordinator

financed: autumn 2004 – 2005

Continuing 2006: 1 man-year plus translation of the learning

material (English and Swedish)

Persons from all faculties (11):

Teachers

Support persons for educational technology

Faculty and campus libraries, Undergraduated library

IT Department

Open University, University of Helsinki

ICT Driving Licence – What?

Common learning material plus faculty tailored part

Learning material:

1. Introduction to the use of computers

2. The computer environment at the University of Helsinki

3. Modifying and presenting data

4. Information seeking

” Learning goals: the new student will be able to use the

services of the University of Helsinki libraries, and to seek

information from different sources. She/he will be familiar

with different search techniques, with which she/he can

make her/his work more effective. In addition, she/he will

know the basics of copyrights.”

5. Data security and privacy protection

4. Information seeking

Contents:

1. Planning the information search

2. Finding material from the HELKA libraries (the libraries at the University

of Helsinki)

3. Seeking information about a specific subject

4. Utilising and evaluating search results

National Project for Studying Plan for Information Literacy

http://www.helsinki.fi/infolukutaito/english/index.htm

ICT Driving Licence made it possible to integrate the information

literacy into the curriculum of the first year students in every

faculty =>

Recommendation for universities for including information literacy competency in the new

degree structures

III Master’s level studies: Information literacy in advanced level studies:

integrated into the Master’s thesis seminar

II Bachelor’s level studies: Information literacy in intermediate level studies:

integrated into the proseminar/Bachelor’s thesis seminar

I New students: Basics in information literacy:(part of compulsory general studies, e.g. part of ICT studies)

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ICT Driving Licence – How?

Learning material (produced together)

www.helsinki.fi/tvt-ajokortti/english

Entry level tests and final exams (examination)

Questions and tasks produced together

in WebCT (e-learning environment):

Technically OK

Questions and tasks are in continuous development process

(focusing, targeting, measuring skills)

Teaching sessions

Faculty tailored part

Support material for the teaching staff

Evaluation of the project:Strengths (SWOT) 1

University leaders’ support Participants

Heterogenous groups

Enough time to prepare

Clear, common

goal

Favourable towards

development in their own work

Productive discussions, constructive

critisismTiming

continuing…

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Big university

Minimizing overlapping

work

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Need for common work

Need for shared work and shared

costs

Not-doing becomes visible

Need for homogenization

Weaknesses (SWOT)

Some faculties and institutions

No teaching personnel with

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skills

Big university

Different kind of IT systems

No IT ’traditions’ in curriculum

Difficult to plan and to teach

Complicated IT systems

Competition with their own

curriculum

Possibilities (SWOT)

Persons in different

positions and tasks

Synergy, power in cooperationImprovement

of the quality in ICT teaching

Different languages

Shared IT knowledge

Shared experiences

Common, together produced

learning material

Libraries have the possibility to show

what they have and what they can

ICT skills for personnel

Threats (SWOT)

Faculties’ commitment to guide and carry out the

course

Updating and keeping up with the time - the

learning material

Faculties’ commitment to the shared project

Updating and keeping up with time

- the curriculum

ICT Driving Licence – numbers

3550 new students totally

Numbers from 8 faculties: 2879 new students, 1959 passed => 68%

passed

Medical Faculty: 165 new students, 157 passed => 95 % passed

Group sessions, entry level tests and finals exams in the schedule

Linear progress in medical studies

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ICT Driving Licence at the Medical Faculty:

165 new students, divided into PBL-groups/10 persons each medicine and odontology students together first 2 years- pre-

clinical studies)

Compulsory ICT Driving Licence group sessions

1. ’START’ group session Introduction to WebCT etc.

2. Terkko and its services

3. Medline

4. SPSS-statistics (introduction)

Optional sessions Word-text processing The computer environment at the University of Helsinki (medical

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Entry level tests and final exams in WebCT (renewal possibilities)

ICT Driving Licence at the Medical Faculty

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National Library of the Health Sciences – Terkko

’Terkko and its services’ group session:

10 persons/group

3 in Swedish

à 2h 15 min

3 trainers

Goal: practical use of library and its services:

e-journals, e-books, library catalogue, net dictionary etc.

At the Medical Faculty ICT studies part of the curriculum also in previous

years

Experiences at Terkko

Positive (mostly)

Homogenous groups

Some groups heterogenous

IT skills good (mostly)

Timing OK

Basic structure OK

This year

More ’doing’

Students’ activation

Thank You!

More information:

tiina.m.heino@helsinki.fi

2006