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…
… Strengths 2 (SWOT)
Big university
Minimizing overlapping
work
…continuing
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
ICT and pedagogical
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
Students’ self-assessment of their ICT skills before and after the course
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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
faculty)
Entry level tests and final exams in WebCT (renewal possibilities)
ICT Driving Licence at the Medical Faculty
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Criteria for passed 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
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