Presentation during the IMPDET-LE Workshop, Online services for PhD students session.

1. ONLINE SERVICES TO PHD
STUDENTS
Jarkko Suhonen
IMPDET-LE Preparatory Workshop, August 2013

2. Basic resources for IMPDET-LE students
•Website: www.impdet.org
– Admission information
– Funding sources
– Information about online courses, edTech research days and other
activities
– List of students and alumni with links to dissertations
•IMPDET-LE Wiki: https://wiki.uef.fi/x/fwj9
– Important documents
– Services, resources and instructions for PhD students
• Recommended readings
• Practical tips on literature review
• List of journals
• Tips for writing the research proposal

3. E-library
•Nelliportal; https://ezproxy.uef.fi/ezproxy
– Service for accessing all the electronic resources at the Library of the
University of Eastern Finland
• Databases
• Access to online journals
• Electronic books
• Dictionaries, etc.
•Other library services; http://www.uef.fi/en/kirjasto/palvelut
– Borrowing resources
– Publications
•Refworks; http://www.uef.fi/en/kirjasto/ref-works
– online references management system
– Import search results from electronic databases
– Insert references automatically to the article

4. Student information system
•Weboodi; https://wiola.uef.fi/weboodi/frame.jsp?
Kieli=6&valittuKieli=6
•In Weboodi you can
– change your contact information
– browse your completed studies
– browse study guides, study units and teaching events = courses,
exams
– register for courses and exams
– give feedback on courses
– register for terms

5. Online courses, edTech research days and other
activities
•Moodle; https://moodle.uef.fi/uef/login_uef/index.php
– Online learning management system
– Provides basic services and tools to run online courses
• Resources
• Discussions forums
• Assignments
• Calendar
•Adobe Connect Pro; http://video.uku.fi/jnstkt/.
– Web conferencing software
– Follow and give presentations online

6. IT Support
•IT Center of UEF; http://www.uef.fi/en/tike/tike
•Provides various IT services to students
– User names and rights
– Passwords
– Emails
– Network connections
– Etc.

7. IT Support
•IT Center of UEF; http://www.uef.fi/en/tike/tike
•Provides various IT services to students
– User names and rights
– Passwords
– Emails
– Network connections
– Etc.