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Institution:
HANKEN - Swedish School of Economics
and Business Administration
Helsinki
Address:
HANKEN - Swedish School of
Economics and Business Administration
PB 479
Arkadiankatu 22
00101 Helsinki
Contact persons:
Tua Hindersson-Söderholm
Hanken Library
PB
479
Arkadiankatu 22
00101 Helsinki
Phone: 09 431 33 408
Fax: 09 431 33 425
Kicka Lindroos
The Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration,
Computer Centre
Phone: +358 9 431 33331
Maria Suokannas
The Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration,
CERS - Centre for Relationship Marketing and Service Management
Tel: +358 9 431 33 285/
+358 40 754 5834 (GSM)
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The Teaching and Research Council approved the
Hanken´s Information Literacy Program in May 2005. The program covers
both goals and courses where skills are taught.
InfoLit
courses - Autumn 2006
Target
groups: university
students attending a Master Degree Program at Hanken; exchange university (non-Hanken)
students
Level: basic
Duration:
2 hours
Main
contents:
• an
overview of available electronic databases at Hanken and how to use them
through keywords etc.;
• an introduction, in order to learn how to write reports at Hanken and
how to structure the work in MS Word;
• an introduction to correct referencing techniques - what to do and
what not to do.
HANKEN
- The Information Literacy Program
For
university students
Target
groups: Hanken
University students; students from other universities or polytechnics
Level: basic
and advanced
The courses where
information literacy skills already were or would be integrated constitute
all together the integrated information literacy program.
Table 1: The integrated Information Literacy Program at Hanken, accepted by the
Teaching and Research Council in May 2005.
Learning
goals
FIRST YEAR
Information literacy skills of a student after the FIRST year at Hanken:
• basic skills in using tools needed for searching and handling information
(Computer Driving License, A-level), Informatics,
• skills to use tools needed for studying at Hanken (WebOodi, WebCT,
Moodle, course information on the web), Introduction Week and Informatics,
• knowledge of computer security at Hanken, Informatics,
• basic skills in netiquette,
criticism of sources and how to use information ethically and correctly, Informatics
and Introduction to Organization and Management,
• basic skills in structuring long texts, Introduction to
Organization and Management,
• knowledge of commonly used economic and business information sources,
Informatics and Introduction to Organization and Management,
• ability to read a reference list and to find the primary
source, irrespective of type and format, Informatics, and,
• knowledge of the process of information retrieval, Introduction
to Organization.
SECOND YEAR
During the SECOND year at Hanken, the student uses and develops the
information literacy skills by doing exercises in connection with subject
courses.
In order to accomplish the exercises successfully, the student is expected to
handle, search, critically evaluate and make use of the information by using
skills learned during the first year at Hanken. In addition, new skills are
learned, such as:
• basics in statistical analysis of
information,
• basics in academic writing and referencing, and,
• basics in meetings and presentations.
Third year
During the THIRD year the skills are deepened and the student
is mainly handling, searching and using information according to the area of his/her
major subject.
The goal is a Bachelor’s Thesis of high quality, both technically and
from the point of view.
In addition to Informatics (a
compulsory course, where the students get TIEKE’s Computer Drivers License, a
national ICT certification program), one information retrieval module and
one study technique module are taught.
Introduction to Organization and Management is a compulsory course,
during which the students have to write their first scientific paper in small
teams. Into this course an information literacy module is integrated and the
guidelines Instructions
for Reports and Papers at Hanken are presented to the
students as a standard for written exercises at Hanken.
This course is followed by another compulsory course, Introduction
to Marketing, which uses the teaching platform WebCT. The students get
familiar with activities on the web and e-learning and write their second
scientific paper, individually this time.
In the following two years information literacy skills are taught by the
teacher in the compulsory courses Introduction to Research Methods and Swedish
I-IV, and in the subject courses as required. In the Proseminars the
library gives a guest lecture, brushing up the student’s information retrieval
skills.
In association with the Bologna Process, the new students from other
universities or polytechnics who get admission to study for a
Master’s degree at Hanken are unfamiliar with the information literacy skills
approach and the pedagogical methods at Hanken.
For them there is an introductory course, which takes them to the same
level as Hanken Bachelors.
The same information literacy module as in Introduction to Organization and
Management is offered separately and developed further when needed.
Since this separate module will be taught in English, it can be offered to
exchange students, visiting Hanken for one or two semesters, as well.
The Information Literacy Team has initiated discussions about reallocating
resources for the course Academic Writing, in order to offer it to all
Master’s degree students.
While writing their Master’s thesis, students will have the possibility to
attend a voluntary Thesis Lab, a workshop focusing on information retrieval
and MSWord
Other experiences of the information literacy program are so far:
- Informatics:The Computer Drivers License takes all students to
the same computer literacy level. Participating in the lectures is voluntary and
the tests can also be taken elsewhere, since it’s a nation-wide certificate.
- Introduction
to Organization and Management:
The Information Literacy Team
is involved in the course from planning to evaluation with the Professor and the
assistant teachers.
The final version of the integrated Information Literacy Module contains 50 min.
information retrieval, 40 min. writing and structuring papers with MSWord and 30
min.referencing, and the module turned out to be easy to offer separately as
well.
- Introduction to Marketing: The examiners added an individual
paper exercise on their own initiative.
While working with the project, it became clearer and clearer that it is
necessary to do more for spreading information about and preventing plagiarism,
since this is a subject of big concern and without clear outlines at Hanken.
For
university staff
Target group:
Hanken University staff
Level: basic and advanced
In the Information Literacy Program it is also stated to raise the information
literacy of the personnel and faculty as well. This has been done so far by
arranging an ICT Fair where available tools were presented, and in
January a small copyright campaign was arranged.
A new course program called “InfoKomp-kurser” (abbreviation
from informationskompetens i.e. information literacy) has been arranged (1
and a half hours weekly) during Spring 2006. In the courses different
tools, such as The Nelli Search Portal, Webropol, WebCT, RefWorks, etc., are
presented for the personnel and the faculty and in some cases also for students.
The size of the audience has varied between three and thirty.
This effort will continue next Autumn because of the positive feedback.
Useful information about the Hanken IL Program
and its main goals and courses are available in English in the following paper, presented at
Creating
Knowledge IV - Empowering the Student through Cross-Institutional Collaboration.
International
conference at The Royal Library and University of Copenhagen. Copenhagen, 16-18
August 2006:
Tua Hindersson-Söderholm - Kicka Lindroos - Maria Suokannas, Together
we are stronger – from a vision to an integrated information literacy program.
A
presentation of the Hanken IL Program (24 May 2006) is also
available in Swedish.
Keywords:
information literacy – information literacy program – IL integration into
curriculum – higher education – courses for exchange university students -
courses for Master's Degree students – courses
for university staff - use of electronic databases - report writing - paper
writing - academic writing - referencing techniques - information literacy
skills - information retrieval - information retrieval skills - information skills - research methods -
information searching - information handling - information sources - use of
information - text structuring - economic information sources - business
information sources - information retrieval - academic referencing - presenting
skills - statistical analysis of information - study techniques - plagiarism
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