Digital Expertise in Health Care and Social Services (5cr)

Evaluation scale

0-5

Content scheduling

Pre-assignment will be given a month before intensive days. Middle assignment will be done between the intensive days and final assignment will be given during the intensive days.

Objective

The purpose of the course is to increase knowledge and expertize of digitalization in social services and health care.

After the course you will recognize the effects and potentialities of digitalization in your own field of expertise. You will get transferable skills to utilize digital methods and to reflect critically and openly to introduce digital methods in the social services and health care sector.

Competences of the course:
- Ethics
- Learning to learn
- Proactive development

Content

– Digitalization and related, current effects in the social services and health care sector
– Digital methods and the attitudes and competences related to their deployment.
– Kybersecurity, nformation security and privacy protection in digital services in social services and health care sector

Items of Assessment:
Learning portfolio and learning self assessment

Student Workload in Hours:
Online studies 40 h - Active participation in intensive days 20 h - Independent work (incl. Written assignments) 75 h Total 135 hours

Materials

Häyrinen, K. (2018). Social and health care meets digitalization – challenges and possibilities. FinJeHew, 10(2–3), 186-188.
Punna, M. & Raitio, K. 2016.Mobiilimenetelmät ja pelillisyys työmenetelminä sosiaali-ja terveysalan asiakastyössä. FinJeHew, 8 (4) 244-230.
Sosiaali- ja terveysministeriö. (2016). Digitalisaatio terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin tukena. Sosiaali- ja terveysministeriön digitalisaatiolinjaukset 2025. Available: http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-00-3782-6.

Teaching methods

Two intensive days (includes lectures, work shops) and written assignments (pre-course, between the intensive days, final)

Student workload

Pre- and middle-assignments 1 ect, intensive days 1 ect, final assignment 3 ect

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

The general criteria of the competences that the Master's Degrees awarded by Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences provide can be found on JAMK's web pages (Competence Assessment | Jamk). The learning outcomes of individual courses are assessed in relation to the objectives of the course concerned. Assessment is based on knowledge, skills and competence in accordance with the National and European Qualifications Framework (NQF/EQF), level 7.

Pass:
For the passed performance you master the key concepts related to digitalisation.You recognize the effects and potentialities of digitaliaztion in your own field of expertise and you are capable of reflecting them based on evidence in a variety of ways. You possess the capability to reflect the idea of deploying digital methods and you are able to critically assess their deployment in the social services and health care sector.

0 (Failed):
The student does not achieve the competence goals of the course