Study Guide

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

Online
Thu 20.2.2025 klo 17.00-19.30
Tue 25.2.2025 klo 17-20.30
Thu 13.3.2025 klo 17-19.30
Tue 8.4.2025 klo 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.