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 theacademic 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

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

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