Presentation at EAHIL 2006 in Cluj Napoca Romania Theme: ”Education and Learning” 13.9.2006

1. ICT Driving Licence at the
University of Helsinki
EAHIL Conference, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Theme: ”Education and Learning”
13.9.2006
Tiina Heino
Medical Faculty
National Library of Health Sciences – Terkko
http://www.terkko.helsinki.fi

2. 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

3. 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)

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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 =>

7. 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)
Integration
into
the
curriculum
Deepening
IL-
skills,
by
using
them
actively
as
a
tool
for
the
academic
studies

8. 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

9. 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
critisism
Timing
continuing…

10. … 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

11. 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

12. 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
experiences
Common, together
produced
learning material
Libraries have the
possibility to show
what they have and
what they can
ICT skills for
personnel

13. 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

14. 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

15. Students’ self-assessment of their ICT
skills before and after the course
n=751
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
400
450
500
Very poor
skills
Moderate skills Very good
skills
Before
After

16. 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)

17. ICT Driving Licence at the Medical Faculty
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Self learning material on the web
”START”
group
session
Entry
level
tests
passed
Terkko
Medline
SPSS
Computer
environment
Word
Final
exams
passed
Final
exams
passed
ICT
Driving
Licence
exam
Sections
not
passed
in
the
entry
level
tests
Final
exams
not
passed
Criteria for passed ICT Driving Licence at the Medical Faculty
Lecture
Compulsory group session
Optional group session
Browser

18. 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

19. 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

20. Thank You!
More information:
tiina.m.heino@helsinki.fi
2006