The students will gain an overall picture of Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences, of the School of Health Care and Social Work, of the studies and other activities offered to them and of the student support services. They will become familiar with their own degree programme and start constructing a conception of the scope, field of expertise and professional competence requirements of their future profession. The students will learn to analyse their need for information, to
use library and information services and to utilize sources of information in their own field. They will learn a systematic information seeking process and know how to evaluate the information. The students will also learn to use the PC and peripherals independently, and know how to apply information technology in their studies, future profession and its development. They will learn to use common applications and become aware of their ethical responsibility in the use of information technology.
Student's Workload
Will be announced at the beginning of the course.
Prerequisites / Recommended Optional Courses
No previous studies are required.
Contents
- Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences
- School of Health Care and Social Work
- Student support services
- Degree Programme in Elderly Care
- Pedagogic approaches in the degree programme
- Progress of the studies
- Study practices
- Practical training periods
- Study techniques
- Course feedback systems
- Study arrangements for each semester
- Information seeking and sources of information in elderly care
- Information search and library services
- Types of information/knowledge and their evaluation
- Conceptualisation of the problems in information seeking, sources of information and databases
- Understanding, utilising and writing reference information
- Information seeking exercises in the health care and social work field, in elderly care and in the WWW.
- Independent assignments
- Available information technology and facilities and current practices in the health care and social welfare sectors
- Contracts, ethics and data protection
- Device management, editing systems
- E-mail, Winha student administration system, Moodle learning environment, Internet, search engines, Word for text processing, Excel spreadsheet, and PowerPoint for graphics
Recommended or Required Reading
- Guides for students
- Writing Academic Texts
- Instructions for obtaining information
- Material in the Moodle learning environment
- Other online material
Mode of Delivery / Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
- Instructions of writing academic texts
- Instructions for obtaining information
- Contact teaching
- Online teaching
- Independent assignments
- Information seeking exercises
- Exam (pass/fail)
Assessment Criteria
Grading will be announced during the course.
Assessment Methods
Active participation in contact lessons and in individual counselling, independent studies and completion of assignments.