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Development Skills - From an Idea to a PlanLaajuus (5 cr)

Code: YAMK117

Credits

5 op

Teaching language

  • Finnish

Responsible person

  • Marika Kunnari

Objective

The student is able to produce a user-oriented research plan, development and innovation activities. He / she is able to proactively analyze the effects of development activities from the perspective of professional ethical principles and multiculturalism. He / she is able to choose operating models that support the open communication and interaction culture of the project team and its actors. The student develops his competence to interact internationally in the context of research and development in his field.

Competences focused on the study unit: proactive development, ethics, internationality and multiculturalism, foresight and development skills.

Content

Key contents
• Refining an idea into a project plan
• Project planning steps and procedures
• Multicultural cooperation
• Research-intensive needs and user-driven development work
• Proactive effectiveness evaluation
• Organization of a development project and support systems in an organization
• Main contents of a development plan

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

1-2: The student
- prepares a plan for need- and user-driven research, development and / or innovation activities.
- defines the basics of ethics, internationality and multiculturalism in his/her development task, and he/she identifies methods of proactive development.
- uses evidence-based references in the learning task.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

3-4: The student
- analyzes realization of ethics, internationality and multiculturalism in the development task, as well as realization of proactive development.
- analyzes the information he/she uses in a user-oriented way and draws logical conclusions using evidence-based references.
- evaluates the results of his/her development task from different perspectives and, based on the task, forms substantiated views on the relevance and success of the choices he/she has made.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

5: The student
- demonstrates in the needs- and user-driven development task well-founded evaluation of knowledge and structuring of knowledge in a new way from the perspectives of ethics, internationality and multiculturalism, as well as proactive development.
- uses evidence-based resources as his/her source of information, as a means of reasoning, and as a demonstration of familiarity with the subject. The task leads from interpretation to reasoning.

Enrollment

02.12.2024 - 31.12.2024

Timing

01.01.2025 - 31.05.2025

Credits

5 op

Virtual proportion (cr)

5 op

RD proportion (cr)

4 op

Mode of delivery

Distance learning

Unit

Master's Degree Programmes

Teaching languages
  • English
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 50

Degree programmes
  • Ennakoinnin ja kehittämisen asiantuntija
Teachers
  • Anzelika Krastina
  • Katri Hendriksson
  • Maarit Tihinen
  • Mirva Tapaninen
Student groups
  • R31YE25K
    Master of Foresight and Development, spring 2025

Objective

The student is able to produce a user-oriented research plan, development and innovation activities. He / she is able to proactively analyze the effects of development activities from the perspective of professional ethical principles and multiculturalism. He / she is able to choose operating models that support the open communication and interaction culture of the project team and its actors. The student develops his competence to interact internationally in the context of research and development in his field.

Competences focused on the study unit: proactive development, ethics, internationality and multiculturalism, foresight and development skills.

Content

Key contents
• Refining an idea into a project plan
• Project planning steps and procedures
• Multicultural cooperation
• Research-intensive needs and user-driven development work
• Proactive effectiveness evaluation
• Organization of a development project and support systems in an organization
• Main contents of a development plan

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

1-2: The student
- prepares a plan for need- and user-driven research, development and / or innovation activities.
- defines the basics of ethics, internationality and multiculturalism in his/her development task, and he/she identifies methods of proactive development.
- uses evidence-based references in the learning task.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

3-4: The student
- analyzes realization of ethics, internationality and multiculturalism in the development task, as well as realization of proactive development.
- analyzes the information he/she uses in a user-oriented way and draws logical conclusions using evidence-based references.
- evaluates the results of his/her development task from different perspectives and, based on the task, forms substantiated views on the relevance and success of the choices he/she has made.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

5: The student
- demonstrates in the needs- and user-driven development task well-founded evaluation of knowledge and structuring of knowledge in a new way from the perspectives of ethics, internationality and multiculturalism, as well as proactive development.
- uses evidence-based resources as his/her source of information, as a means of reasoning, and as a demonstration of familiarity with the subject. The task leads from interpretation to reasoning.

Enrollment

08.01.2024 - 21.01.2024

Timing

22.02.2024 - 12.05.2024

Credits

5 op

Virtual proportion (cr)

5 op

RD proportion (cr)

4 op

Mode of delivery

Distance learning

Unit

Master's Degree Programmes

Teaching languages
  • English
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 45

Teachers
  • Anzelika Krastina
  • Maarit Tihinen
  • Mirva Tapaninen
  • Katri Hendriksson
Student groups
  • R31YE24K
    Master of Foresight and Development, spring 2024

Objective

The student is able to produce a user-oriented research plan, development and innovation activities. He / she is able to proactively analyze the effects of development activities from the perspective of professional ethical principles and multiculturalism. He / she is able to choose operating models that support the open communication and interaction culture of the project team and its actors. The student develops his competence to interact internationally in the context of research and development in his field.

Competences focused on the study unit: proactive development, ethics, internationality and multiculturalism, foresight and development skills.

Content

Key contents
• Refining an idea into a project plan
• Project planning steps and procedures
• Multicultural cooperation
• Research-intensive needs and user-driven development work
• Proactive effectiveness evaluation
• Organization of a development project and support systems in an organization
• Main contents of a development plan

Location and time

Virtual contacts:
Thu 22.2.2024 at 16.30-20.30
Tue 27.2.2024 at 17-20
Thu 14.3.2024 at 17-19
Wed 3.4.2024 at 17-21

Teaching methods

The study unit is implemented as online studies. The study unit includes prescheduled contact days according to the schedule below.
The teaching in the study unit is based on co-educational pedagogy and it is implemented in Finnish and in English. Learning assignments are done individually or in a small group. It is possible to complete the studies in either Finnish or in English.

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

1-2: The student
- prepares a plan for need- and user-driven research, development and / or innovation activities.
- defines the basics of ethics, internationality and multiculturalism in his/her development task, and he/she identifies methods of proactive development.
- uses evidence-based references in the learning task.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

3-4: The student
- analyzes realization of ethics, internationality and multiculturalism in the development task, as well as realization of proactive development.
- analyzes the information he/she uses in a user-oriented way and draws logical conclusions using evidence-based references.
- evaluates the results of his/her development task from different perspectives and, based on the task, forms substantiated views on the relevance and success of the choices he/she has made.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

5: The student
- demonstrates in the needs- and user-driven development task well-founded evaluation of knowledge and structuring of knowledge in a new way from the perspectives of ethics, internationality and multiculturalism, as well as proactive development.
- uses evidence-based resources as his/her source of information, as a means of reasoning, and as a demonstration of familiarity with the subject. The task leads from interpretation to reasoning.

Enrollment

12.01.2023 - 31.01.2023

Timing

21.02.2023 - 28.04.2023

Credits

5 op

Virtual proportion (cr)

5 op

RD proportion (cr)

4 op

Mode of delivery

Distance learning

Unit

Master's Degree Programmes

Teaching languages
  • English
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 35

Degree programmes
  • Ennakoinnin ja kehittämisen asiantuntija
Teachers
  • Anzelika Krastina
  • Maarit Tihinen
  • Mika Uitto
  • Mirva Tapaninen
Student groups
  • R31YE23K
    Master of Foresight and Development, spring 2023

Objective

The student is able to produce a user-oriented research plan, development and innovation activities. He / she is able to proactively analyze the effects of development activities from the perspective of professional ethical principles and multiculturalism. He / she is able to choose operating models that support the open communication and interaction culture of the project team and its actors. The student develops his competence to interact internationally in the context of research and development in his field.

Competences focused on the study unit: proactive development, ethics, internationality and multiculturalism, foresight and development skills.

Content

Key contents
• Refining an idea into a project plan
• Project planning steps and procedures
• Multicultural cooperation
• Research-intensive needs and user-driven development work
• Proactive effectiveness evaluation
• Organization of a development project and support systems in an organization
• Main contents of a development plan

Location and time

Virtual contacts:
Ti 21.2.2023 at 17-21
To 2.3.2023 at 17-19 (2h)
Ti 28.3.2023 at 17-21

Teaching methods

The study unit is implemented as online studies. The study unit includes prescheduled contact days according to the schedule below.
The teaching in the study unit is based on co-educational pedagogy and it is implemented in Finnish and in English. Learning assignments are done individually or in a small group. It is possible to complete the studies in either Finnish or in English.

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

1-2: The student
- prepares a plan for need- and user-driven research, development and / or innovation activities.
- defines the basics of ethics, internationality and multiculturalism in his/her development task, and he/she identifies methods of proactive development.
- uses evidence-based references in the learning task.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

3-4: The student
- analyzes realization of ethics, internationality and multiculturalism in the development task, as well as realization of proactive development.
- analyzes the information he/she uses in a user-oriented way and draws logical conclusions using evidence-based references.
- evaluates the results of his/her development task from different perspectives and, based on the task, forms substantiated views on the relevance and success of the choices he/she has made.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

5: The student
- demonstrates in the needs- and user-driven development task well-founded evaluation of knowledge and structuring of knowledge in a new way from the perspectives of ethics, internationality and multiculturalism, as well as proactive development.
- uses evidence-based resources as his/her source of information, as a means of reasoning, and as a demonstration of familiarity with the subject. The task leads from interpretation to reasoning.

Enrollment

09.05.2022 - 05.08.2022

Timing

03.10.2022 - 05.12.2022

Credits

5 op

Virtual proportion (cr)

5 op

RD proportion (cr)

4 op

Mode of delivery

Distance learning

Teaching languages
  • English
  • Finnish
Seats

0 - 25

Degree programmes
  • Ennakoinnin ja kehittämisen asiantuntija
Teachers
  • Anzelika Krastina
  • Erson Halili
  • Sirkka Saranki-Rantakokko
  • Mirva Tapaninen

Objective

The student is able to produce a user-oriented research plan, development and innovation activities. He / she is able to proactively analyze the effects of development activities from the perspective of professional ethical principles and multiculturalism. He / she is able to choose operating models that support the open communication and interaction culture of the project team and its actors. The student develops his competence to interact internationally in the context of research and development in his field.

Competences focused on the study unit: proactive development, ethics, internationality and multiculturalism, foresight and development skills.

Content

Key contents
• Refining an idea into a project plan
• Project planning steps and procedures
• Multicultural cooperation
• Research-intensive needs and user-driven development work
• Proactive effectiveness evaluation
• Organization of a development project and support systems in an organization
• Main contents of a development plan

Location and time

Contact teaching, via Zoom:
3.10. 2022 from 16–20
7.11. 2022 from 16–20

Teaching methods

The study unit is implemented as online studies. The study unit includes prescheduled contact days according to the schedule below.
The teaching in the study unit is based on co-educational pedagogy and it is implemented in Finnish and in English. Learning assignments are done individually or in a small group. It is possible to complete the studies in either Finnish or in English.

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

1-2: The student
- prepares a plan for need- and user-driven research, development and / or innovation activities.
- defines the basics of ethics, internationality and multiculturalism in his/her development task, and he/she identifies methods of proactive development.
- uses evidence-based references in the learning task.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

3-4: The student
- analyzes realization of ethics, internationality and multiculturalism in the development task, as well as realization of proactive development.
- analyzes the information he/she uses in a user-oriented way and draws logical conclusions using evidence-based references.
- evaluates the results of his/her development task from different perspectives and, based on the task, forms substantiated views on the relevance and success of the choices he/she has made.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

5: The student
- demonstrates in the needs- and user-driven development task well-founded evaluation of knowledge and structuring of knowledge in a new way from the perspectives of ethics, internationality and multiculturalism, as well as proactive development.
- uses evidence-based resources as his/her source of information, as a means of reasoning, and as a demonstration of familiarity with the subject. The task leads from interpretation to reasoning.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

The student prepares a plan for need- and user-driven research, development and / or innovation activities. In his/her development task, the student defines the basics of ethics, internationality and multiculturalism, and he/she identifies methods of proactive development. In the learning task, the student uses evidence-based references.

Assessment criteria, good (3-4)

In the development task, the student analyzes realization of ethics, internationality and multiculturalism, as well as realization of proactive development. The student analyzes the information he/she uses in a user-oriented way and draws logical conclusions using evidence-based references. The student evaluates the results of his/her development task from different perspectives and, based on the task, forms substantiated views on the relevance and success of the choices he/she has made.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

In the needs- and user-driven development task, the student demonstrates well-founded evaluation of knowledge and structuring of knowledge in a new way from the perspectives of ethics, internationality and multiculturalism, as well as proactive development. He/she uses evidence-based resources as his/her source of information, as a means of reasoning, and as a demonstration of familiarity with the subject. The task leads from interpretation to reasoning.