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ICT Driving Licence at the University of Helsinki: Meeting the Needs of Diverse Study Fields

Tiina Heino

Päivi Helminen

31 March, 2009

Helsinki University Libraries

31.03.2009University of Helsinki, Tiina Heino and Päivi Helminen 2

Contents of the presentation

Background

Coordination and participants

ICT Driving Licence: its structure and contents

Evaluation of the project

Case: Cooperation with teachers at the Faculty of

Agriculture and Forestry

Case: ICT Driving Licence at the Medical Faculty


University of Helsinki

Campuses in HelsinkiHelsinki

11 faculties

10 libraries

almost 4 000 new students per year

38 000 students


University of Helsinki

Kumpula CampusFaculty of Science

students 7 000, staff 1 000

Kumpula Science Library

Viikki CampusFaculty of Agriculture

and Forestry, Faculty of Biosciences,Faculty of Pharmacy,

Faculty of Vetrinary Medicine


Viikki Science Library

Meilahti CampusFaculty of Medicine

students 2 300 staff 1 500

HUCH 10 000

National Library of Health Sciences

City CampusFaculty of Theology,

Faculty of Law,Faculty of Arts,

Faculty of Behavioural Sciences,

Faculty of Social Sciences


National LibraryUndergraduate Library

five faculty libraries


ICT Driving Licence – Why?

Bologna process The reform of the degree structure (two cycles)

Started 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

Staff from all faculties (11) Teachers

Support persons for educational technology

Faculty and campus libraries

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 collection catalogues and other information sources at the

libraries

- acquire search techniques that will make student’s work more

efficient

- analyze the results and utilize the information in accordance with

the principles for good academic practice”

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 =>

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


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 Moodle (virtual learning environment):

- Questions and tasks are in continuous development process (focusing,

targeting, measuring skills)

Teaching sessions

Faculty tailored part

Support material for the teaching staff

http://www.helsinki.fi/tvt-ajokortti/english


Self-learning Material

Entry Level Test(Moodle VLE)

Monitored Examination

(Moodle VLE)

(obligatory in all faculties)

Components of the ICT Driving Licence

Library Tour&Hands-on Session


Evaluation of the project:Strengths (SWOT) 1

Supportfrom

university leaders

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 kinds 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 cooperation

Improvement of the quality in ICT teaching

Different languages

Shared IT knowledge

Shared experiencesCommon, together

producedlearning 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


Experiences from the Department of Applied Chemistry and Microbiology

Hands-on training session is embedded to the

introductory course of the department. A team of eight

teachers from the department teach the introductory

course. Faculty teachers give assigments and participate in the

information seekings sessions in the library. Faculty teachers have another information seeking

session with each small group. Students write essays or prepare presentations in small

groups of 6-7 students.


ICT Driving Licence at the Medical Faculty:

170 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 Blackboard 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 Blackboard (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

2 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

Mostly positive

Medical curriculum: linear progress in studies

Homogenous groups (mostly)

Average IT skills good

Timing OK

Students’ activation important

Positive experience


Challenges for the Future

How to ensure funding and coordination in the future

How to ensure the pedagogical soundness Do self-learning material and tests encourage students for

further studying and learning

How to keep up with changes in information environment

How to get enough resources to update the learning material

ICT Driving Licence for the staff


Further information

ICT Driving Licencehttp://www.helsinki.fi/tvt-ajokortti/english/

Helsinki University Librarieshttp://www.helsinki.fi/kirjastot/english/training/

Information Literacy Network of Finnish University Libraries

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

http://www.helsinki.fi/tvt-ajokortti/english/

http://www.helsinki.fi/kirjastot/english/training/







Thank you!

Contact:

Päivi Helminen

Viikki Science Library

[email protected]

Tiina Heino

National Library of Health Sciences

[email protected]

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