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InnoFlashLaajuus (2 cr)

Code: ZZ00CK91

Credits

2 op

Teaching language

  • Finnish
  • English

Responsible person

  • Mari Hakkarainen, Korkeakoulupalvelut, Future Factory; Hyväksilukuhakemusten käsittely
  • Elina Fisk, Hyvinvointi
  • Juha Pesonen, Teknologia

Objective

Purpose of the course

With the InnoFlash course, you will learn to create customer-oriented solutions to the challenges of working life. You will learn to work in a diverse team and to evaluate your own learning.

You will get to know the basic principles and different stages of the user-centered design method. You are able to to apply a user-centered method in solving a work-related challenge. You act as an active team member and promote the team's work with your own actions. You know how to describe and share the result of your team's work. You reflect on the development of your own and your team's skills during the course.

Competences of the course

Learning to learn
Acting in working life
Anticipatory development

Competence goal of the course

1. You are able to apply a user-centered design method in solving a work-related challenge and describe and present the stages and results of team work.

2. You know how to work actively and promote the team's activities in a diverse team.

3. You can reflect on your own and your team's activities during the implementation of the course.

Content

In InnoFlash you solve problems of working life in diverse student teams. During the study period, you apply user-centered thinking and an operating model, based on which you, as a team member, create solutions that generate added value for the customer. You test your solution with customers and present it to the assignor with your team.

During the study process, you practice evaluating your own and your team's activities and reflecting on the development of your skills. Before the teamwork phase, you familiarize yourself with the themes of the course: diverse teamwork, user-oriented design and reflection on your own expertise.

Qualifications

-

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Approved completion of the study course requires that you pass all the tasks of the study course and actively participate in the teamwork phase. The prerequisite for getting to the team working phase is that you have completed the tasks of the first independent working phase on time.

After successfully completing the study course, you will be able to demonstrate that you know the basic principles and steps of the user-oriented design method in problem solving and apply them in solving a work-related challenge. You act as an active team member in the different stages of the method and are able to present the result of your team's work. You can create different proposed solutions to a challenge, test them with customers and change the proposed solution based on the test results.

You examine your own and your group's activities in the implementation of user-oriented problem solving. You reflect on the development of your own competence during the implementation of the course.

Enrollment

18.11.2024 - 09.01.2025

Timing

03.03.2025 - 17.04.2025

Number of ECTS credits allocated

2 op

RDI portion

2 op

Mode of delivery

Face-to-face

Unit

University Services

Teaching languages
  • English
Seats

0 - 500

Teachers
  • Eetu Lehtonen
  • Tomi Hiltunen
  • Antony Smal
  • Elina Fisk
  • Marjo Turunen
  • Alison Doolittle
  • Mari Karjalainen
  • Essi Säynätmäki
  • Mari Hakkarainen
Teacher in charge

Mari Hakkarainen

Objectives

Purpose of the course

With the InnoFlash course, you will learn to create customer-oriented solutions to the challenges of working life. You will learn to work in a diverse team and to evaluate your own learning.

You will get to know the basic principles and different stages of the user-centered design method. You are able to to apply a user-centered method in solving a work-related challenge. You act as an active team member and promote the team's work with your own actions. You know how to describe and share the result of your team's work. You reflect on the development of your own and your team's skills during the course.

Competences of the course

Learning to learn
Acting in working life
Anticipatory development

Competence goal of the course

1. You are able to apply a user-centered design method in solving a work-related challenge and describe and present the stages and results of team work.

2. You know how to work actively and promote the team's activities in a diverse team.

3. You can reflect on your own and your team's activities during the implementation of the course.

Content

In InnoFlash you solve problems of working life in diverse student teams. During the study period, you apply user-centered thinking and an operating model, based on which you, as a team member, create solutions that generate added value for the customer. You test your solution with customers and present it to the assignor with your team.

During the study process, you practice evaluating your own and your team's activities and reflecting on the development of your skills. Before the teamwork phase, you familiarize yourself with the themes of the course: diverse teamwork, user-oriented design and reflection on your own expertise.

Learning materials and recommended literature

Materials in the e-learning environment

Teaching methods

The learning takes place by using the user-oriented design method. Before teamworking period, you explore the method, and in your team, you use the method when you create a customer-oriented solution to an assignment of a client.

The course starts with Get Ready phase, successful completion of which is a prerequisite for entering the teamwork phase. If you don't manage to accomplish the assignments of Get Ready phase in time, the completion of the course is interrupted and you will get a fail grade.

In this implementation, the deadline for the first obligatory Get Ready phase assignments is latest 11th March 2025.

The contact learning week takes place on week 13/2025 which is 24th March 2025 to 28th March 2025. On this week, you have to take part in coaching and teamworking every day at 8.30-16.00. You can not have any other lectures during this week.

After the week you have independent reflecting tasks.

Practical training and working life connections

The assignments of the course come from companies and development projects.

Exam dates and retake possibilities

No final exam is arranged on this course, the accomplishment is based on both independent and team study tasks.

Alternative completion methods

The course takes place four times a year: both online course and contact course once in autumn semester and once in spring semester. These courses can have English speaking groups.

Student workload

Contact course:
- Independent study tasks before the teamworking period 10 hours
- Taking part in contact study week and study tasks as a team member 40 hours. Contact studies take place during one week, during which the student can not have any other lectures at the same time. It is obligatory to take part in the contact study week daily.
- Independent study tasks after the teamworking period 4 hours

Evaluation scale

Pass/Fail

Evaluation criteria, pass/failed

Approved completion of the study course requires that you pass all the tasks of the study course and actively participate in the teamwork phase. The prerequisite for getting to the team working phase is that you have completed the tasks of the first independent working phase on time.

After successfully completing the study course, you will be able to demonstrate that you know the basic principles and steps of the user-oriented design method in problem solving and apply them in solving a work-related challenge. You act as an active team member in the different stages of the method and are able to present the result of your team's work. You can create different proposed solutions to a challenge, test them with customers and change the proposed solution based on the test results.

You examine your own and your group's activities in the implementation of user-oriented problem solving. You reflect on the development of your own competence during the implementation of the course.

Prerequisites

-

Enrollment

18.11.2024 - 09.01.2025

Timing

24.02.2025 - 11.04.2025

Number of ECTS credits allocated

2 op

RDI portion

2 op

Mode of delivery

Face-to-face

Unit

University Services

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 500

Teachers
  • Anu Pelkonen
  • Jaana Kovanen
  • Mikko Keskinen
  • Matti Mieskolainen
  • Jaakko Oksanen
  • Mervi Kuustie
  • Essi Säynätmäki
  • Essi Silvennoinen
  • Laura Salo
  • Mari Hakkarainen
  • Riku Ojanperä
  • Elina Fisk
  • Petri Pelkonen
Teacher in charge

Mari Hakkarainen

Objectives

Purpose of the course

With the InnoFlash course, you will learn to create customer-oriented solutions to the challenges of working life. You will learn to work in a diverse team and to evaluate your own learning.

You will get to know the basic principles and different stages of the user-centered design method. You are able to to apply a user-centered method in solving a work-related challenge. You act as an active team member and promote the team's work with your own actions. You know how to describe and share the result of your team's work. You reflect on the development of your own and your team's skills during the course.

Competences of the course

Learning to learn
Acting in working life
Anticipatory development

Competence goal of the course

1. You are able to apply a user-centered design method in solving a work-related challenge and describe and present the stages and results of team work.

2. You know how to work actively and promote the team's activities in a diverse team.

3. You can reflect on your own and your team's activities during the implementation of the course.

Content

In InnoFlash you solve problems of working life in diverse student teams. During the study period, you apply user-centered thinking and an operating model, based on which you, as a team member, create solutions that generate added value for the customer. You test your solution with customers and present it to the assignor with your team.

During the study process, you practice evaluating your own and your team's activities and reflecting on the development of your skills. Before the teamwork phase, you familiarize yourself with the themes of the course: diverse teamwork, user-oriented design and reflection on your own expertise.

Learning materials and recommended literature

Materials in the e-learning environment

Teaching methods

The learning takes place by using the user-oriented design method. Before teamworking period, you explore the method, and in your team, you use the method when you create a customer-oriented solution to an assignment of a client.

The course starts with Get Ready phase, successful completion of which is a prerequisite for entering the teamwork phase. If you don't manage to accomplish the assignments of Get Ready phase in time, the completion of the course is interrupted and you will get a fail grade.

In this implementation, the deadline for the first obligatory Get Ready phase assignments is 4th March 2025.

The contact learning week takes place on week 12/2025 which is 17th March 2025 to 21st March 2025. On this week, you have to take part in coaching and teamworking every day at 8.30-16.00. You can not have any other lectures during this week.

After the week you have independent reflecting tasks.

Practical training and working life connections

The assignments of the course come from companies and development projects.

Exam dates and retake possibilities

No final exam is arranged on this course, the accomplishment is based on both independent and team study tasks.

Alternative completion methods

The course takes place four times a year: both online course and contact course once in autumn semester and once in spring semester.

Student workload

Contact course:
- Independent study tasks before the teamworking period 10 hours
- Taking part in contact study week and study tasks as a team member 40 hours. Contact studies take place during one week, during which the student can not have any other lectures at the same time. It is obligatory to take part in the contact study week daily.
- Independent study tasks after the teamworking period 4 hours

Evaluation scale

Pass/Fail

Evaluation criteria, pass/failed

Approved completion of the study course requires that you pass all the tasks of the study course and actively participate in the teamwork phase. The prerequisite for getting to the team working phase is that you have completed the tasks of the first independent working phase on time.

After successfully completing the study course, you will be able to demonstrate that you know the basic principles and steps of the user-oriented design method in problem solving and apply them in solving a work-related challenge. You act as an active team member in the different stages of the method and are able to present the result of your team's work. You can create different proposed solutions to a challenge, test them with customers and change the proposed solution based on the test results.

You examine your own and your group's activities in the implementation of user-oriented problem solving. You reflect on the development of your own competence during the implementation of the course.

Prerequisites

-

Enrollment

18.11.2024 - 09.01.2025

Timing

14.01.2025 - 24.04.2025

Number of ECTS credits allocated

2 op

Virtual portion

2 op

RDI portion

2 op

Mode of delivery

Online learning

Unit

University Services

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 500

Teachers
  • Anu Pelkonen
  • Anne-Maria Raitio
  • Jere Lamberg
  • Kaisa Kinnunen
  • Elina Fisk
  • Juha Pesonen
  • Essi Säynätmäki
  • Suvi Ylänen
  • Mari Hakkarainen
  • Laura Salo
Teacher in charge

Elina Fisk

Objectives

Purpose of the course

With the InnoFlash course, you will learn to create customer-oriented solutions to the challenges of working life. You will learn to work in a diverse team and to evaluate your own learning.

You will get to know the basic principles and different stages of the user-centered design method. You are able to to apply a user-centered method in solving a work-related challenge. You act as an active team member and promote the team's work with your own actions. You know how to describe and share the result of your team's work. You reflect on the development of your own and your team's skills during the course.

Competences of the course

Learning to learn
Acting in working life
Anticipatory development

Competence goal of the course

1. You are able to apply a user-centered design method in solving a work-related challenge and describe and present the stages and results of team work.

2. You know how to work actively and promote the team's activities in a diverse team.

3. You can reflect on your own and your team's activities during the implementation of the course.

Content

In InnoFlash you solve problems of working life in diverse student teams. During the study period, you apply user-centered thinking and an operating model, based on which you, as a team member, create solutions that generate added value for the customer. You test your solution with customers and present it to the assignor with your team.

During the study process, you practice evaluating your own and your team's activities and reflecting on the development of your skills. Before the teamwork phase, you familiarize yourself with the themes of the course: diverse teamwork, user-oriented design and reflection on your own expertise.

Learning materials and recommended literature

Materials in the e-learning environment

Teaching methods

The learning takes place by using the user-oriented design method. Before teamworking period, you explore the method, and in your team, you use the method when you create a customer-oriented solution to an assignment of a client.

The course starts with Get Ready phase, successful completion of which is a prerequisite for entering the teamwork phase. If you don't manage to accomplish the assignments of Get Ready phase in time, the completion of the course is interrupted and you will get a fail grade.

In this implementation, the deadline for the first obligatory Get Ready phase assignments is latest 28.1.

The team working period of the course is conducted as distance learning, which includes five compulsory webinars, in Finnish.

Practical training and working life connections

The assignments of the course come from companies and development projects.

Exam dates and retake possibilities

No final exam is arranged on this course, the accomplishment is based on both independent and team study tasks.

Alternative completion methods

The course takes place four times a year: both online course and contact course once in autumn semester and once in spring semester.

Student workload

Distance learning:
- Independent tasks before the teamwork phase 10 h
- Participating in online webinars and doing assignments as part of a team for 40 h. Contact teaching is carried out in five webinars over a period of about two months. Attendance at webinars is mandatory.
- Independent tasks after the teamwork phase 4 h

Evaluation scale

Pass/Fail

Evaluation criteria, pass/failed

Approved completion of the study course requires that you pass all the tasks of the study course and actively participate in the teamwork phase. The prerequisite for getting to the team working phase is that you have completed the tasks of the first independent working phase on time.

After successfully completing the study course, you will be able to demonstrate that you know the basic principles and steps of the user-oriented design method in problem solving and apply them in solving a work-related challenge. You act as an active team member in the different stages of the method and are able to present the result of your team's work. You can create different proposed solutions to a challenge, test them with customers and change the proposed solution based on the test results.

You examine your own and your group's activities in the implementation of user-oriented problem solving. You reflect on the development of your own competence during the implementation of the course.

Prerequisites

-

Enrollment

18.11.2024 - 09.01.2025

Timing

14.01.2025 - 23.04.2025

Number of ECTS credits allocated

2 op

Virtual portion

2 op

RDI portion

2 op

Mode of delivery

Online learning

Unit

University Services

Teaching languages
  • English
Seats

0 - 500

Teachers
  • Riku Ojanperä
  • Elina Fisk
  • Juha Pesonen
  • Matti Mieskolainen
  • Essi Säynätmäki
  • Mari Hakkarainen
Teacher in charge

Mari Hakkarainen

Objectives

Purpose of the course

With the InnoFlash course, you will learn to create customer-oriented solutions to the challenges of working life. You will learn to work in a diverse team and to evaluate your own learning.

You will get to know the basic principles and different stages of the user-centered design method. You are able to to apply a user-centered method in solving a work-related challenge. You act as an active team member and promote the team's work with your own actions. You know how to describe and share the result of your team's work. You reflect on the development of your own and your team's skills during the course.

Competences of the course

Learning to learn
Acting in working life
Anticipatory development

Competence goal of the course

1. You are able to apply a user-centered design method in solving a work-related challenge and describe and present the stages and results of team work.

2. You know how to work actively and promote the team's activities in a diverse team.

3. You can reflect on your own and your team's activities during the implementation of the course.

Content

In InnoFlash you solve problems of working life in diverse student teams. During the study period, you apply user-centered thinking and an operating model, based on which you, as a team member, create solutions that generate added value for the customer. You test your solution with customers and present it to the assignor with your team.

During the study process, you practice evaluating your own and your team's activities and reflecting on the development of your skills. Before the teamwork phase, you familiarize yourself with the themes of the course: diverse teamwork, user-oriented design and reflection on your own expertise.

Learning materials and recommended literature

Materials in the e-learning environment

Teaching methods

The learning takes place by using the user-oriented design method. Before teamworking period, you explore the method, and in your team, you use the method when you create a customer-oriented solution to an assignment of a client.

The course starts with Get Ready phase, successful completion of which is a prerequisite for entering the teamwork phase. If you don't manage to accomplish the assignments of Get Ready phase in time, the completion of the course is interrupted and you will get a fail grade.

In this implementation, the deadline for the first obligatory Get Ready phase assignments is latest 28.1.

The teamworking phase of the course is conducted as distance learning, which includes five compulsory webinars, in English.


This implementation is for remote students only. Those who have enrolled in full-time studies, will have to enroll in contact week implementation.

Practical training and working life connections

The assignments of the course come from companies and development projects.

Exam dates and retake possibilities

No final exam is arranged on this course, the accomplishment is based on both independent and team study tasks.

Alternative completion methods

The course takes place four times a year: both online course and contact course once in autumn semester and once in spring semester.

Student workload

Distance learning:
- Independent tasks before the teamwork phase 10 h
- Participating in online webinars and doing assignments as part of a team for 40 h. Contact teaching is carried out in five webinars over a period of about two months. Attendance at webinars is mandatory.
- Independent tasks after the teamwork phase 4 h

Evaluation scale

Pass/Fail

Evaluation criteria, pass/failed

Approved completion of the study course requires that you pass all the tasks of the study course and actively participate in the teamwork phase. The prerequisite for getting to the team working phase is that you have completed the tasks of the first independent working phase on time.

After successfully completing the study course, you will be able to demonstrate that you know the basic principles and steps of the user-oriented design method in problem solving and apply them in solving a work-related challenge. You act as an active team member in the different stages of the method and are able to present the result of your team's work. You can create different proposed solutions to a challenge, test them with customers and change the proposed solution based on the test results.

You examine your own and your group's activities in the implementation of user-oriented problem solving. You reflect on the development of your own competence during the implementation of the course.

Prerequisites

-

Enrollment

01.08.2024 - 30.08.2024

Timing

21.10.2024 - 06.12.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

2 op

RDI portion

2 op

Mode of delivery

Face-to-face

Unit

University Services

Campus

Main Campus

Teaching languages
  • English
Seats

0 - 500

Teachers
  • Anne-Maria Raitio
  • Juha Ruuska
  • Lotta Happo
  • Antony Smal
  • Elina Fisk
  • Hanna-Riikka Kantelinen
  • Antero Kivelä
  • Mikko Keskinen
  • Essi Säynätmäki
  • Sameli Rinta-Hirvelä
  • Mari Hakkarainen

Objectives

Purpose of the course

With the InnoFlash course, you will learn to create customer-oriented solutions to the challenges of working life. You will learn to work in a diverse team and to evaluate your own learning.

You will get to know the basic principles and different stages of the user-centered design method. You are able to to apply a user-centered method in solving a work-related challenge. You act as an active team member and promote the team's work with your own actions. You know how to describe and share the result of your team's work. You reflect on the development of your own and your team's skills during the course.

Competences of the course

Learning to learn
Acting in working life
Anticipatory development

Competence goal of the course

1. You are able to apply a user-centered design method in solving a work-related challenge and describe and present the stages and results of team work.

2. You know how to work actively and promote the team's activities in a diverse team.

3. You can reflect on your own and your team's activities during the implementation of the course.

Content

In InnoFlash you solve problems of working life in diverse student teams. During the study period, you apply user-centered thinking and an operating model, based on which you, as a team member, create solutions that generate added value for the customer. You test your solution with customers and present it to the assignor with your team.

During the study process, you practice evaluating your own and your team's activities and reflecting on the development of your skills. Before the teamwork phase, you familiarize yourself with the themes of the course: diverse teamwork, user-oriented design and reflection on your own expertise.

Learning materials and recommended literature

Materials in the e-learning environment

Teaching methods

The learning takes place by using the user-oriented design method. Before teamworking period, you explore the method, and in your team, you use the method when you create a customer-oriented solution to an assignment of a client.

The course starts with Get Ready phase, successful completion of which is a prerequisite for entering the teamwork phase. The Moodle workspace opens on 17th of October 2024 at 8 o'clock. If you don't manage to accomplish the assignments of Get Ready phase on the Moodle workspace in time, the completion of the course is interrupted and you will get a fail grade.

In this implementation, the deadline for the first obligatory Get Ready phase assignments is latest 27.10.2024.

The contact learning week takes place on week 46/2024 which is 11.11.2024-15.11.2024. On this week, you have to take part in coaching and teamworking every day at 8.30-16.00. You can not have any other lectures during this week.

After the week you have independent reflecting tasks.

Practical training and working life connections

The assignments of the course come from companies and development projects.

Exam dates and retake possibilities

No final exam is arranged on this course, the accomplishment is based on both independent and team study tasks.

Alternative completion methods

The course takes place four times a year: both online course and contact course once in autumn semester and once in spring semester. These courses can have English speaking groups.

Student workload

Contact course:
- Independent study tasks before the teamworking period 10 hours
- Taking part in contact study week and study tasks as a team member 40 hours. Contact studies take place during one week, during which the student can not have any other lectures at the same time. It is obligatory to take part in the contact study week daily.
- Independent study tasks after the teamworking period 4 hours

Evaluation scale

Pass/Fail

Evaluation criteria, pass/failed

Approved completion of the study course requires that you pass all the tasks of the study course and actively participate in the teamwork phase. The prerequisite for getting to the team working phase is that you have completed the tasks of the first independent working phase on time.

After successfully completing the study course, you will be able to demonstrate that you know the basic principles and steps of the user-oriented design method in problem solving and apply them in solving a work-related challenge. You act as an active team member in the different stages of the method and are able to present the result of your team's work. You can create different proposed solutions to a challenge, test them with customers and change the proposed solution based on the test results.

You examine your own and your group's activities in the implementation of user-oriented problem solving. You reflect on the development of your own competence during the implementation of the course.

Prerequisites

-

Enrollment

01.08.2024 - 31.08.2024

Timing

14.10.2024 - 29.11.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

2 op

RDI portion

2 op

Mode of delivery

Face-to-face

Unit

University Services

Campus

Main Campus

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 500

Teachers
  • Anne-Maria Raitio
  • Pasi Teräväinen
  • Anu Pelkonen
  • Jaana Kovanen
  • Marjo Turunen
  • Matti Mieskolainen
  • Mikko Keskinen
  • Mervi Kuustie
  • Mari Karjalainen
  • Jaakko Oksanen
  • Essi Säynätmäki
  • Janne Laitinen
  • Essi Silvennoinen
  • Mari Hakkarainen
  • Laura Salo
  • Tomi Hiltunen
  • Pauliina Silvennoinen
  • Minna Nyman
  • Teemu Laitinen
  • Riku Ojanperä
  • Elina Fisk
  • Hanna-Riikka Kantelinen
  • Riikka Karvonen

Objectives

Purpose of the course

With the InnoFlash course, you will learn to create customer-oriented solutions to the challenges of working life. You will learn to work in a diverse team and to evaluate your own learning.

You will get to know the basic principles and different stages of the user-centered design method. You are able to to apply a user-centered method in solving a work-related challenge. You act as an active team member and promote the team's work with your own actions. You know how to describe and share the result of your team's work. You reflect on the development of your own and your team's skills during the course.

Competences of the course

Learning to learn
Acting in working life
Anticipatory development

Competence goal of the course

1. You are able to apply a user-centered design method in solving a work-related challenge and describe and present the stages and results of team work.

2. You know how to work actively and promote the team's activities in a diverse team.

3. You can reflect on your own and your team's activities during the implementation of the course.

Content

In InnoFlash you solve problems of working life in diverse student teams. During the study period, you apply user-centered thinking and an operating model, based on which you, as a team member, create solutions that generate added value for the customer. You test your solution with customers and present it to the assignor with your team.

During the study process, you practice evaluating your own and your team's activities and reflecting on the development of your skills. Before the teamwork phase, you familiarize yourself with the themes of the course: diverse teamwork, user-oriented design and reflection on your own expertise.

Learning materials and recommended literature

Materials in the e-learning environment

Teaching methods

The learning takes place by using the user-oriented design method. Before teamworking period, you explore the method, and in your team, you use the method when you create a customer-oriented solution to an assignment of a client.

The course starts with Get Ready phase, successful completion of which is a prerequisite for entering the teamwork phase. Moodle workspace opens on 10th October 2024 at 8 o'clock. If you don't manage to accomplish the assignments of Get Ready phase on Moodle in time, the completion of the course is interrupted and you will get a fail grade.

In this implementation, the deadline for the first obligatory Get Ready phase assignments is latest 20.10.2024.

The contact learning week takes place on week 45/2024 which is 4.11.2024 - 8.11.2024. On this week, you have to take part in coaching and teamworking every day at 8.30-16.00. You can not have any other lectures during this week.

After the week you have independent reflecting tasks.

Practical training and working life connections

The assignments of the course come from companies and development projects.

Exam dates and retake possibilities

No final exam is arranged on this course, the accomplishment is based on both independent and team study tasks.

Alternative completion methods

The course takes place four times a year: both online course and contact course once in autumn semester and once in spring semester.

Student workload

Contact course:
- Independent study tasks before the teamworking period 10 hours
- Taking part in contact study week and study tasks as a team member 40 hours. Contact studies take place during one week, during which the student can not have any other lectures at the same time. It is obligatory to take part in the contact study week daily.
- Independent study tasks after the teamworking period 4 hours

Evaluation scale

Pass/Fail

Evaluation criteria, pass/failed

Approved completion of the study course requires that you pass all the tasks of the study course and actively participate in the teamwork phase. The prerequisite for getting to the team working phase is that you have completed the tasks of the first independent working phase on time.

After successfully completing the study course, you will be able to demonstrate that you know the basic principles and steps of the user-oriented design method in problem solving and apply them in solving a work-related challenge. You act as an active team member in the different stages of the method and are able to present the result of your team's work. You can create different proposed solutions to a challenge, test them with customers and change the proposed solution based on the test results.

You examine your own and your group's activities in the implementation of user-oriented problem solving. You reflect on the development of your own competence during the implementation of the course.

Prerequisites

-

Enrollment

01.08.2024 - 01.09.2024

Timing

04.09.2024 - 20.11.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

2 op

Virtual portion

2 op

RDI portion

2 op

Mode of delivery

Online learning

Unit

University Services

Teaching languages
  • English
Seats

0 - 500

Teachers
  • Elina Fisk
  • Hanna-Riikka Kantelinen
  • Essi Säynätmäki
  • Mari Hakkarainen

Objectives

Purpose of the course

With the InnoFlash course, you will learn to create customer-oriented solutions to the challenges of working life. You will learn to work in a diverse team and to evaluate your own learning.

You will get to know the basic principles and different stages of the user-centered design method. You are able to to apply a user-centered method in solving a work-related challenge. You act as an active team member and promote the team's work with your own actions. You know how to describe and share the result of your team's work. You reflect on the development of your own and your team's skills during the course.

Competences of the course

Learning to learn
Acting in working life
Anticipatory development

Competence goal of the course

1. You are able to apply a user-centered design method in solving a work-related challenge and describe and present the stages and results of team work.

2. You know how to work actively and promote the team's activities in a diverse team.

3. You can reflect on your own and your team's activities during the implementation of the course.

Content

In InnoFlash you solve problems of working life in diverse student teams. During the study period, you apply user-centered thinking and an operating model, based on which you, as a team member, create solutions that generate added value for the customer. You test your solution with customers and present it to the assignor with your team.

During the study process, you practice evaluating your own and your team's activities and reflecting on the development of your skills. Before the teamwork phase, you familiarize yourself with the themes of the course: diverse teamwork, user-oriented design and reflection on your own expertise.

Learning materials and recommended literature

Materials in the e-learning environment

Teaching methods

The learning takes place by using the user-oriented design method. Before teamworking period, you explore the method, and in your team, you use the method when you create a customer-oriented solution to an assignment of a client.

The course starts with Get Ready phase, successful completion of which is a prerequisite for entering the teamwork phase. If you don't manage to accomplish the assignments of Get Ready phase in time, the completion of the course is interrupted and you will get a fail grade.

In this implementation, the deadline for the first obligatory Get Ready phase assignments is latest 18.9.

The teamworking phase of the course is conducted as distance learning, which includes five compulsory webinars, in English..

Wed 2.10.2024 at 12-15
Wed 9.10.2024 at 12-15
Wed 23.10.2024 at 12-15
Wed 30.10.2024 at 12-15 (independent studying in groups)
Wed 6.11.2024 at 12-15

This implementation is for remote students only. Those who have enrolled in full-time studies, will have to enroll in implementation ZZ00CK91-3002.

Practical training and working life connections

The assignments of the course come from companies and development projects.

Exam dates and retake possibilities

No final exam is arranged on this course, the accomplishment is based on both independent and team study tasks.

Alternative completion methods

The course takes place four times a year: both online course and contact course once in autumn semester and once in spring semester.

Student workload

Distance learning:
- Independent tasks before the teamwork phase 10 h
- Participating in online webinars and doing assignments as part of a team for 40 h. Contact teaching is carried out in five webinars over a period of about two months. Attendance at webinars is mandatory.
- Independent tasks after the teamwork phase 4 h

Evaluation scale

Pass/Fail

Evaluation criteria, pass/failed

Approved completion of the study course requires that you pass all the tasks of the study course and actively participate in the teamwork phase. The prerequisite for getting to the team working phase is that you have completed the tasks of the first independent working phase on time.

After successfully completing the study course, you will be able to demonstrate that you know the basic principles and steps of the user-oriented design method in problem solving and apply them in solving a work-related challenge. You act as an active team member in the different stages of the method and are able to present the result of your team's work. You can create different proposed solutions to a challenge, test them with customers and change the proposed solution based on the test results.

You examine your own and your group's activities in the implementation of user-oriented problem solving. You reflect on the development of your own competence during the implementation of the course.

Prerequisites

-

Enrollment

01.08.2024 - 30.08.2024

Timing

02.09.2024 - 15.11.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

2 op

Virtual portion

2 op

RDI portion

2 op

Mode of delivery

Online learning

Unit

University Services

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 500

Degree programmes
  • Bachelor's Degree Programme in Music Pedagogue
  • Bachelor's Degree Programme in Logistics
  • Bachelor's Degree Programme in Rehabilitation Counselling
  • Bachelor's Degree Programme in Occupational Therapy
  • Bachelor's Degree Programme in Construction and Civil Engineering
  • Bachelor's Degree Programme in Service Business
  • Bachelor's Degree Programme in Energy and Environmental Technology
  • Bachelor's Degree Programme in Electrical and Automation Engineering
  • Bachelor's Degree Programme in Team Academy
  • Degree Programme in Midwifery
  • Bachelor's Degree Programme in Social Services
  • Bachelor's Degree Programme in Mechanical Engineering
  • Bachelor's Degree Programme in Business Information Technology
  • Bachelor's Degree Programme in Construction Management
  • Bachelor's Degree Programme in Purchasing and Logistics Engineering
  • Bachelor's Degree Programme in Information and Communications Technology
  • Bachelor's Degree Programme in Information and Communications Technology
  • Bachelor's Degree Programme in Business Management
  • Degree Programme in Nursing
  • Bachelor's Degree Programme in Agricultural and Rural Industries
  • Bachelor's Degree Programme in Physiotherapy
Teachers
  • Anu Pelkonen
  • Kaisa Kinnunen
  • Riku Ojanperä
  • Elina Fisk
  • Hanna-Riikka Kantelinen
  • Juha Pesonen
  • Matti Mieskolainen
  • Essi Säynätmäki
  • Mari Hakkarainen
Teacher in charge

Juha Pesonen

Objectives

Purpose of the course

With the InnoFlash course, you will learn to create customer-oriented solutions to the challenges of working life. You will learn to work in a diverse team and to evaluate your own learning.

You will get to know the basic principles and different stages of the user-centered design method. You are able to to apply a user-centered method in solving a work-related challenge. You act as an active team member and promote the team's work with your own actions. You know how to describe and share the result of your team's work. You reflect on the development of your own and your team's skills during the course.

Competences of the course

Learning to learn
Acting in working life
Anticipatory development

Competence goal of the course

1. You are able to apply a user-centered design method in solving a work-related challenge and describe and present the stages and results of team work.

2. You know how to work actively and promote the team's activities in a diverse team.

3. You can reflect on your own and your team's activities during the implementation of the course.

Content

In InnoFlash you solve problems of working life in diverse student teams. During the study period, you apply user-centered thinking and an operating model, based on which you, as a team member, create solutions that generate added value for the customer. You test your solution with customers and present it to the assignor with your team.

During the study process, you practice evaluating your own and your team's activities and reflecting on the development of your skills. Before the teamwork phase, you familiarize yourself with the themes of the course: diverse teamwork, user-oriented design and reflection on your own expertise.

Learning materials and recommended literature

Materials in the e-learning environment

Teaching methods

The learning takes place by using the user-oriented design method. Before teamworking period, you explore the method, and in your team, you use the method when you create a customer-oriented solution to an assignment of a client.

The course starts with Get Ready phase, successful completion of which is a prerequisite for entering the teamwork phase. If you don't manage to accomplish the assignments of Get Ready phase in time, the completion of the course is interrupted and you will get a fail grade.

In this implementation, the deadline for the first obligatory Get Ready phase assignments is latest 12.9.

The team working period of the course is conducted as distance learning, which includes five compulsory webinars, in Finnish.

Week 39 Thu 26.9.2024 at 16.30-19.30
Week 40 Thu 3.10.2024 at 16.30-19.30
Week 41 Thu 10.10.2024 at 16.30-19.30
Week 43 Thu 24.10.2024 at 16.30-19.30 (independent group study)
Week 44 Thu 31.10.2024 at 16.30-19.30

Practical training and working life connections

The assignments of the course come from companies and development projects.

Exam dates and retake possibilities

No final exam is arranged on this course, the accomplishment is based on both independent and team study tasks.

Alternative completion methods

The course takes place four times a year: both online course and contact course once in autumn semester and once in spring semester.

Student workload

Distance learning:
- Independent tasks before the teamwork phase 10 h
- Participating in online webinars and doing assignments as part of a team for 40 h. Contact teaching is carried out in five webinars over a period of about two months. Attendance at webinars is mandatory.
- Independent tasks after the teamwork phase 4 h

Evaluation scale

Pass/Fail

Evaluation criteria, pass/failed

Approved completion of the study course requires that you pass all the tasks of the study course and actively participate in the teamwork phase. The prerequisite for getting to the team working phase is that you have completed the tasks of the first independent working phase on time.

After successfully completing the study course, you will be able to demonstrate that you know the basic principles and steps of the user-oriented design method in problem solving and apply them in solving a work-related challenge. You act as an active team member in the different stages of the method and are able to present the result of your team's work. You can create different proposed solutions to a challenge, test them with customers and change the proposed solution based on the test results.

You examine your own and your group's activities in the implementation of user-oriented problem solving. You reflect on the development of your own competence during the implementation of the course.

Prerequisites

-

Timing

09.09.2024 - 25.10.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

2 op

RDI portion

2 op

Mode of delivery

Face-to-face

Unit

University Services

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 500

Teachers
  • Eetu Lehtonen
  • Pauliina Silvennoinen
  • Heidi Hämäläinen-Laitinen
  • Elina Fisk
  • Hanna-Riikka Kantelinen
  • Suvi Salminen
  • Mari Karjalainen
  • Jenni Ikola-Mäki
  • Essi Säynätmäki
  • Mari Hakkarainen

Objectives

Purpose of the course

With the InnoFlash course, you will learn to create customer-oriented solutions to the challenges of working life. You will learn to work in a diverse team and to evaluate your own learning.

You will get to know the basic principles and different stages of the user-centered design method. You are able to to apply a user-centered method in solving a work-related challenge. You act as an active team member and promote the team's work with your own actions. You know how to describe and share the result of your team's work. You reflect on the development of your own and your team's skills during the course.

Competences of the course

Learning to learn
Acting in working life
Anticipatory development

Competence goal of the course

1. You are able to apply a user-centered design method in solving a work-related challenge and describe and present the stages and results of team work.

2. You know how to work actively and promote the team's activities in a diverse team.

3. You can reflect on your own and your team's activities during the implementation of the course.

Content

In InnoFlash you solve problems of working life in diverse student teams. During the study period, you apply user-centered thinking and an operating model, based on which you, as a team member, create solutions that generate added value for the customer. You test your solution with customers and present it to the assignor with your team.

During the study process, you practice evaluating your own and your team's activities and reflecting on the development of your skills. Before the teamwork phase, you familiarize yourself with the themes of the course: diverse teamwork, user-oriented design and reflection on your own expertise.

Learning materials and recommended literature

Materials in the e-learning environment

Teaching methods

The learning takes place by using the user-oriented design method. Before teamworking period, you explore the method, and in your team, you use the method when you create a customer-oriented solution to an assignment of a client.

The contact learning week takes place on week 40/2024 which is 30.9.2024-4.10.2024. On this week, you have to take part in coaching and teamworking every day at 8.30-16.00. Before the contact learning week, you have independent study tasks, and after the week, you have independent reflecting tasks.

Practical training and working life connections

The assignments of the course come from companies and development projects.

Exam dates and retake possibilities

No final exam is arranged on this course, the accomplishment is based on both independent and team study tasks.

Alternative completion methods

The course takes place four times a year: both online course and contact course once in autumn semester and once in spring semester. These courses can have English speaking groups.

Student workload

Contact course:
- Independent study tasks before the teamworking period 10 hours
- Taking part in contact study week and study tasks as a team member 40 hours. Contact studies take place during one week, and no other teaching is arranged at the same time. It is obligatory to take part in the contact study week daily.
- Independent study tasks after the teamworking period 4 hours

Evaluation scale

Pass/Fail

Evaluation criteria, pass/failed

Approved completion of the study course requires that you pass all the tasks of the study course and actively participate in the teamwork phase. The prerequisite for getting to the team working phase is that you have completed the tasks of the first independent working phase on time.

After successfully completing the study course, you will be able to demonstrate that you know the basic principles and steps of the user-oriented design method in problem solving and apply them in solving a work-related challenge. You act as an active team member in the different stages of the method and are able to present the result of your team's work. You can create different proposed solutions to a challenge, test them with customers and change the proposed solution based on the test results.

You examine your own and your group's activities in the implementation of user-oriented problem solving. You reflect on the development of your own competence during the implementation of the course.

Prerequisites

-