Health care Finnish eLearning courses

Hanna Turunen, eLearning specialist, MSSc

Health care Finnish 1-5

• Target group: Foreign

doctors, who wish to

improve their Finnish

(B1-level -> C1 level)

• Co-operation with The

University of Helsinki

Centre for Continuing

Education (Hilda Urb)

• Free courses available at Oppiportti.fi online portal

• 45 eLearning

courses/35 eBooks /43 videos

Topics

1. Course: nouns and structures 2. Course: verbs 3. Course: sentence elements: subjects,

objects, predicates 4. Course: particles: prepositions,

postpositions, adverbs, conjunctions 5. Course: phrases, medical glossary,

work in health care center

• Open questions • Match pairs • Fill in blanks • Reading comprehension • Audio • Video • Dialogue rehearsal

Grammar & tasks

Traditional learning e-Learning?!

Match pairs

Fill in blanks

Video

Open question

Final exam

Feedback

• Questionnaire at the end of each

course

Compliments/

Bouquets “My Finnish improved, also the glossary of medicine.” “Good course, I recommend it.” “Audio.” “Writing practice.” “Grammar.”

Criticism/Brickbats: “There should be more anatomy exercises” “…more examples and grammar” “…more open questions” “I didn’t learn anything new! Totally useless course.”

Thank you! Kiitos!