Practical Training (30 cr)

Evaluation scale

Pass/Fail

Objective

Purpose of the course

In the internship, you get practical work experience in accordance with the goals of your own personal study plan. Internship is usually carried out in IT companies, where you perform tasks in your own field. Internship offers an opportunity to apply and develop one's own skills.

Course competencies

- Operating in a workplace: Is able to work constructively in a work community and promotes their own and their work community’s wellbeing. Is able to act professionally in communication and interaction situations at a workplace. Utilises the opportunities offered by technology and digitalisation in their work.
- Proactive development: Is able to work in projects in cooperation with actors of different fields.
- Ethics: Is able to take responsibility for their own actions and their consequences and reflects on them in accordance with the ethical principles and values of their field.
- Internationality and multiculturalism: Is familiar with the impacts of their cultural background on their activities and is able to develop operating methods that take multiculturalism into account in their work community. Is able to communicate internationally in their work tasks.

Learning outcomes

The goal is to learn the operating methods specific to the professional field, enhance practical workplace skills, and develop skills related to one's own work. The practical training tasks support the realization of the student's personal learning plans. You will be able to take responsibility for work tasks as part of a work community and assess the development of your own skills in relation to your learning objectives and the organization's business. You will be able to set further goals for the development of your skills in line with your career plans.

Content

The internship is carried out while working at the company. Internship orientation goes through the importance of internship from the perspective of the student's professional development. Completing the internship also involves drawing up an internship plan and contract, writing an internship report, and presenting learning results through an internship seminar.

Location and time

Non-stop implementation. The introductory information lectures are held on spring and autumn.The internships are carried out at the employer's premises in accordance with the internship agreement. The seminar presentation will be held in courses related to the practical training topic or technologies, it is also possible to do an online presentation that can be recorded. Invitations to the practical training info sessions will be sent separately and the schedule will be reflected in students calendar.

Teaching methods

Introduction to practical training lecture before starting the internship (Autumn/Spring). A guidance meeting in the middle of the internship with the student, jamk teacher and employees instructor, where attention is focused to the work of the internship, giving feedback, and planning the work to the end of the internship. After the internship, the student makes a presentation in a seminar to review the key points of their internship. The final seminars are targeted at 2nd year students or held online via Zoom/Teams, recorded and shared with students.

Employer connections

Practical training will be done a in a company or organization and your work tasks will focus on developing your or the company's IT-skills and or IT work. A maximum of 10 ECTS credits of work placement training can be obtained through a work contract with a company.

Completion alternatives

You can apply for a prior recognition of knowledge/practice via the eRPL process. Contact course teacher via e-mail.

Student workload

5 months (37,5h/week) full-time work or 810 hours (less than 37,5h/week) . Verified by a work certificate. If necessary the practical training can be implemented in two parts: a maximum of 10 ECTS credits of working life orientated practical training and 20 ECTS of credits.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

To successfully complete the practical training, the following requirements must be completed:

- A certificate from the employer indicating the practical training period and the hours worked, if the internship was conducted in parts or on a part-time basis with less than 37.5 hours of weekly work.
- Written practical training report
- Seminar presentation

Qualifications

- The practical training is carried out after the completion of mandatory-, supplementary professional studies and the thesis, in the student's fourth year of studies.
- Basic and supplementary professional competence from the degree program studies.

Further information

The evaluation is carried out giving continuous feedback in the workplace by the work supervisor. 2-way feedback is also given in the mid-term meeting by the participants. In the final report and the seminar presentation you will do and present the self-evaluation and the evaluation of the internship as a whole.