Study Guide

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· Analyse and develop themselves as leaders
· Recognise the significance of diversity and multiprofessionality for leadership
· Recognise the importance of leadership for well-being at work
· Apply strategic and competence leadership, service guidance and service provision, as well as financial and business competence in the leadership and management of work communities

Content

· Self-management and development as a leader
· Diversity and multiprofessionality of the work community in leadership work
· Knowledge-based management and leadership communication in leadership work
· Labour legislation in leadership work (procedures related to employment relationships and contracts)
· Application of leadership competence in different operating environments

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· Analyse and develop themselves as leaders
· Recognise the significance of diversity and multiprofessionality for leadership
· Recognise the importance of leadership for well-being at work
· Apply strategic and competence leadership, service guidance and service provision, as well as financial and business competence in the leadership and management of work communities

Content

· Self-management and development as a leader
· Diversity and multiprofessionality of the work community in leadership work
· Knowledge-based management and leadership communication in leadership work
· Labour legislation in leadership work (procedures related to employment relationships and contracts)
· Application of leadership competence in different operating environments

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· describe the premises, requirements and prerequisites of the organisation where the development project is carried out
· implement data retrieval systematically in Finnish and international databases
· write a theoretical framework for development project · state aim(s), purpose(s), research tasks and final outcome of the development project
· define development and evaluations methodology and describe research methods used in project implementation
· write realisable proposal for development project and research proposal when required
· describe one’s own role as an expert and project manager in development project
· discuss issues related to ethics and reliability
· evaluate and anticipate risks of development project

Content

· Idea/brainstorming seminar
· Literature review
· Proposal for development project (research proposal enclosed if needed)
· Master thesis agreement
· Proposal seminar
· Data retrieval webcourse (1cr)
· Peer feedback

Evaluation scale

Hyväksytty/Hylätty

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· describe the premises, requirements and prerequisites of the organisation where the development project is carried out
· implement data retrieval systematically in Finnish and international databases
· write a theoretical framework for development project · state aim(s), purpose(s), research tasks and final outcome of the development project
· define development and evaluations methodology and describe research methods used in project implementation
· write realisable proposal for development project and research proposal when required
· describe one’s own role as an expert and project manager in development project
· discuss issues related to ethics and reliability
· evaluate and anticipate risks of development project

Content

· Idea/brainstorming seminar
· Literature review
· Proposal for development project (research proposal enclosed if needed)
· Master thesis agreement
· Proposal seminar
· Data retrieval webcourse (1cr)
· Peer feedback

Evaluation scale

Hyväksytty/Hylätty

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· specify the knowledge base of the development project
· produce a written description of the progress of the development project so far
· evaluate the progress of the development project in relation to the plan (eg staying on schedule, progressing towards the goal, functionality of selected research and development methods, operation of the project organization)

Content

· A description of the progress of the development project so far, based on the structure (contents) of the final report (project progress assessment as part of the description)
· Presentation of the progress of the development project so far to the client/sponsor or in other agreed manner

Evaluation scale

Hyväksytty/Hylätty

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· specify the knowledge base of the development project
· produce a written description of the progress of the development project so far
· evaluate the progress of the development project in relation to the plan (eg staying on schedule, progressing towards the goal, functionality of selected research and development methods, operation of the project organization)

Content

· A description of the progress of the development project so far, based on the structure (contents) of the final report (project progress assessment as part of the description)
· Presentation of the progress of the development project so far to the client/sponsor or in other agreed manner

Evaluation scale

Hyväksytty/Hylätty

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· specify the knowledge base of the development project
· produce a written description of the progress of the development project so far
· evaluate the progress of the development project in relation to the plan (eg staying on schedule, progressing towards the goal, functionality of selected research and development methods, operation of the project organization)

Content

· A description of the progress of the development project so far, based on the structure (contents) of the final report (project progress assessment as part of the description)
· Presentation of the progress of the development project so far to the client/sponsor or in other agreed manner

Evaluation scale

Hyväksytty/Hylätty

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· Plan, implement and assess customer-driven service design and service provision independently and responsibly in cooperation with other participants

Content

Service system and governing legislation
· Service productisation and service concepts
· Service design and customer involvement
· Ethics of service provision

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· Plan, implement and assess customer-driven service design and service provision independently and responsibly in cooperation with other participants

Content

Service system and governing legislation
· Service productisation and service concepts
· Service design and customer involvement
· Ethics of service provision

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· Plan, implement and assess customer-driven service guidance independently and responsibly in cooperation with other participants

Content

· Service guidance as an approach in customer work
· Effectiveness of service
· Ethics of customer guidanc

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· Plan, implement and assess customer-driven service guidance independently and responsibly in cooperation with other participants

Content

· Service guidance as an approach in customer work
· Effectiveness of service
· Ethics of customer guidanc

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· Apply strategy processes and related methods as well as assess and develop the quality of operations
· Make decisions in different service system contexts

Content

· Future operating environments and services in the social welfare and health care sector
· Decision-making in the service system
· The role of strategic thinking, decision-making, management and leadership in the work community and service provision
· Strategy process steps, related approaches and tools (analyses, BSC, knowledge-based management)
· Ethics, assessment, quality and effectiveness of strategic operations and decision-making
· Managed strategy and change process

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· Apply strategy processes and related methods as well as assess and develop the quality of operations
· Make decisions in different service system contexts

Content

· Future operating environments and services in the social welfare and health care sector
· Decision-making in the service system
· The role of strategic thinking, decision-making, management and leadership in the work community and service provision
· Strategy process steps, related approaches and tools (analyses, BSC, knowledge-based management)
· Ethics, assessment, quality and effectiveness of strategic operations and decision-making
· Managed strategy and change process

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· Plan and assess services from a business perspective

Content

· Business approach in service management and work community operations
· Service funding channels
· Financial planning, budgeting, cost control · Productisation
· Competitive bidding and legislation on public contracts
· Service marketing process, basic competitive measures in marketing, marketing communication
· Information management systems supporting finances and marketing

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· Plan and assess services from a business perspective

Content

· Business approach in service management and work community operations
· Service funding channels
· Financial planning, budgeting, cost control · Productisation
· Competitive bidding and legislation on public contracts
· Service marketing process, basic competitive measures in marketing, marketing communication
· Information management systems supporting finances and marketing

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· Determine future competence visions and profiles
· Assess and develop visionary and strategy-based future competence
· Assess trends in operations

Content

· Future competence requirements
· Competence required in future service design, service provision, service guidance and financial and business approaches
· Competence assessment, development and systems, as well as assessment of operations

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· Determine future competence visions and profiles
· Assess and develop visionary and strategy-based future competence
· Assess trends in operations

Content

· Future competence requirements
· Competence required in future service design, service provision, service guidance and financial and business approaches
· Competence assessment, development and systems, as well as assessment of operations

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:

- analyse changes in the operating environments and anticipate future developments applying the concepts and methods of futures studies
- evaluate impacts of the changing operating environments on their work, work community and organization, as well on the industry/field at large
- develop one’s competences and expertise in a focused and goal-oriented way in anticipation of the future competence requirements in the work life
- improve and innovate operations and work processes in their work community, taking into account environmental, social and economic sustainability, and using multidisciplinary and multiprofessional futures knowledge.

Content

- Future of work and income
- Future competence needs
- Changing career paths and professional identities
- Future technologies, human–technology interaction
- Sustainable future and ecological reconstruction
- Theories and methods of future studies and foresight
- Importance of foresight for innovations and strategic planning and decision-making

Materials

In the itslearning course platform.

Teaching methods

Studying instructed learning materials, individual written assignments, group work in multidisciplinary groups, reading and discussing in reading groups in your own study programme.

Student workload

Contact days and lectures: 15 h
Online and virtual working individually and in groups: 120 h

Group work and assignments:
• Starting day 28.8.2023: multidisciplinary groups working with SITRA’s megatrend cards.
• Reading groups within each study programme: reading and discussing research articles/papers/reports, creating a visual presentation of the key ideas and publishing it in a discussion forum in the itslearning course platform (tutor teacher evaluates, pass/fail).
• Hackathon 27.11.2023 (a pre-meeting of the hackathon 15.11.2023): multidisciplinary groups work to solve real working-life problems.

Individual work and assignments:
• Orientation assignment: Futures consciousness and attitudes towards future (in the itslearning course platform; tutor teacher evaluates, pass/fail).
• Scenario assignment: imagining alternative professional futures (in the itslearning course platform; tutor teacher evaluates, pass/fail).
• Reflective report on utilizing futures thinking and anticipation methods in one’s own work (in the itslearning course platform; tutor teacher evaluates, pass/fail).

Content scheduling

The course is compulsory for all Turku UAS Master Students. It will be implemented partly in groups comprised of students across the various study programmes, and partly as team and individual work within each study programme.

There are three contact days (Zoom-meetings: 28.8.2023, 15.11.2023 and 27.11.2023).) common to all students of the various study programmes, and further, there are common study materials and assignments in the itslearning course platform. In addition, the study programmes may add and cover discipline specific topics. This will be guided by the tutor teacher during the programme’s contact days.

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THEME 1: CHANGING WORLD AND WORKING LIFE (calendar weeks 35-37)
• Common starting day 28.8. for all students of the various study programmes: orientation to the course, a keynote talk on the future working life and competence requirements, and group work with SITRA’s megatrend cards (tutor teachers will guide working of the groups).
• Students familiarize themselves independently with the materials in the itslearning course platform.
• Orientation assignment: Futures consciousness and attitudes towards future (DL 17.9.)
• (Each study programme may arrange lectures by TUAS specialists on themes such as new technologies, circular economy etc. during the programme’s contact days.)

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THEME 2: FUTURES STUDIES AND ANTICIPATION (calendar weeks 38-41)
• Students familiarize themselves independently with the materials in the itslearning course platform.
• Scenario assignment: imagining alternative professional futures (DL 15.10.)

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THEME 3: CHANGING WORKING LIFE IN MY FIELD (calendar weeks 42-45)
• Reading groups: reading and discussing research articles in groups that meet virtually or face to face, and creating a visual presentation based on the key ideas of the discussion. Readings are related to the changing work, working environment and competence requirements in the field of the study programme. The visual presentation will be shared in the itslearning course platform (DL 12.11.).

• Tutor teacher organizes the reading groups and compiles the list of readings (or guides students to find relevant research articles and reports).

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THEME 4: SHAPING MY OWN FUTURE (calendar weeks (viikot 46-49)
• Students familiarize themselves independently with the materials in the itslearning course platform.
• Common Hackathon day 27.11. (a pre-meeting of the hackathon 16.11.) for all students of the various study programmes: group working to solve real working-life problems related to sustainable future. Students will familiarize themselves with the Hackathon instructions and assignments before the Hackathon day in the itslearning platform and submit their team reports there after the Hackathon (DL 3.12.).

There are two possible ways to participate in the hackathon: 1) as a commissioner or 2) as a student solving working life problems in a multidisciplinary small group.

• Final assignment: a reflective report on utilizing futures thinking and anticipation methods in one’s own work (DL 10.12.).

Evaluation scale

Hyväksytty/Hylätty

Assessment methods and criteria

Assessment will be based on the individual and group assignments submitted in the itslearning course platform and on the demonstrated contribution to the group work in contact days.

Tutor teacher evaluates the assignments (assignments 1–4). To pass the course, students are expected to participate in the contact days and to contribute to group work in them, as well as to complete and turn in all the assignments. Missing contact day participation will be compensated by an extra assignment. Tutor teachers will keep records of participation in group work in contact days and evaluate the compensatory assignments.

Qualifications

-

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:

- analyse changes in the operating environments and anticipate future developments applying the concepts and methods of futures studies
- evaluate impacts of the changing operating environments on their work, work community and organization, as well on the industry/field at large
- develop one’s competences and expertise in a focused and goal-oriented way in anticipation of the future competence requirements in the work life
- improve and innovate operations and work processes in their work community, taking into account environmental, social and economic sustainability, and using multidisciplinary and multiprofessional futures knowledge.

Content

- Future of work and income
- Future competence needs
- Changing career paths and professional identities
- Future technologies, human–technology interaction
- Sustainable future and ecological reconstruction
- Theories and methods of future studies and foresight
- Importance of foresight for innovations and strategic planning and decision-making

Materials

In the itslearning course platform.

Teaching methods

Reading/viewing online learning materials, individual written assignments and group activities in multidisciplinary groups.

International connections

Planning and implementation of the course is based on multidisciplinary collaboration and co-teaching.

Sustainable development is included in the learning objectives and contents of the course (especially Theme 3 and Assignment 3), as well as in the mode of teaching/learning: the course implementation is entirely based on distance learning on the itslearning platform and using Zoom meetings for multidisciplinary group working. All learning materials are available in a digital form, freely available and easily accessible.

Student workload

Online meeting: Collaborative work in multidisciplinary groups in Zoom, 12 h

Online learning: Independent online learning on the itslearning course platform: 123 h

Group work and assignments:
• Starting day 8.1.2024: multidisciplinary groups working with SITRA’s megatrend cards.
• Master Minds Hackathon 29.4.2024 (and a pre-meeting of the hackathon 17.4.2024): multidisciplinary teams work to solve real working-life problems. Each team presents their solution and composes a report using a provided PowerPoint template.

Individual work and assignments:
• Pre-assignment: familiarizing oneself with Sitra’s megatrend materials.
• Assignment 1. Future orientation: futures consciousness and attitudes towards future (in the itslearning course platform; tutor teacher evaluates, pass/fail).
• Assignment 2. Professional future scenarios: imagining alternative professional futures (in the itslearning course platform; tutor teacher evaluates, pass/fail).
• Assignment 3. Sustainable future: analysing sustainability transformation and ecological reconstruction from the perspective of one’s own field and work (in the itslearning course platform; tutor teacher evaluates, pass/fail).
• Assignment 4. Reflective report: utilizing futures thinking and anticipation methods in one’s own work (in the itslearning course platform; tutor teacher evaluates, pass/fail).

Content scheduling

The course is compulsory for all Turku UAS Master Students. It will be implemented partly in multidisciplinary groups comprised of students across the various study programmes, and partly within each study programme on their own itslearning course platform.

There are three online meetings (8.1.2024, 17.4.2024 and 29.4.2024) common to all students of the various study programmes.

The course is mainly based on independent learning using the study materials and assignments in the itslearning course platform. In addition, the study programmes may add and cover discipline specific topics. This will be guided by the tutor teacher during the programme’s contact days.

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PRE-ASSIGMENT

The Future Operating Environments course will start already on TUAS Master School Opening Day 8.1.2024 with an orientation to the course and multiprofessional team discussions in which team members share experiences and thoughts on the impacts of megatrends on their professional field and their own work.

Familiarize yourself with the following materials and be prepared to discuss megatrends on the opening day:
• Sitra 2023: Megatrends
• Sitra 2023: Megatrend cards 2023

Zoom link for the megatrend activity 8.1.2024: https://turkuamk.zoom.us/j/62634660090

***

THEME 1: CHANGING WORLD AND WORKING LIFE (calendar weeks 2–5)
• Common starting day 8.1. for all students of the various study programmes: orientation to the course, a keynote talk on the future working life and competence requirements, and group work with SITRA’s megatrend cards (tutor teachers will guide working of the groups).
• Students familiarize themselves independently with the materials in the itslearning course platform.
• Assignment: Future orientation (DL 4.2.)
• (Each study programme may arrange lectures by TUAS specialists on themes such as new technologies, circular economy etc. during the programme’s contact days.)


THEME 2: FUTURES STUDIES AND ANTICIPATION (calendar weeks 6–9)
• Students familiarize themselves independently with the materials in the itslearning course platform.
• Assignment 2: Professional future scenarios (DL 3.3.2024).


THEME 3: SUSTAINABLE FUTURE (calendar weeks 10–14)
• Students familiarize themselves independently with the materials in the itslearning course platform.
• Assignment 3: Sustainable future (DL 7.4.2024).


THEME 4: SHAPING MY OWN FUTURE (calendar weeks 15–19)
• Students familiarize themselves independently with the materials in the itslearning course platform.
• Group work: Master Minds Hackathon 29.4.2024. (a full-day event) and its pre-meeting 17.4. at 10–11) for all students of the various study programmes. In the Hackathon, multidisciplinary student teams work to solve real working-life problems, i.e. assignments provided by commissoners. Students will familiarize themselves with the Hackathon instructions and assignments before the Hackathon day in the itslearning platform and submit their team reports there after the Hackathon (DL 5.5.2024.). There are two optional ways of participating in the Hackathon: 1) as a commissioner, or 2) as a member of a team
• Assignment 4: a reflective report on utilizing futures thinking and anticipation methods in one’s own work (DL 12.5.2024).

Further information

Time and location:

Online meetings in Zoom: Monday 8.1.2024, a pre-meeting of the hackathon Wednesday 17.4.2024 at 10–11 and Master Minds Hackathon Monday 29.4.2024 at 9–17.30.

Evaluation scale

Hyväksytty/Hylätty

Assessment methods and criteria

Assessment will be based on the individual and group assignments submitted in the itslearning course platform and on the demonstrated contribution to the group work in contact days (i.e. in online meetings).

Tutor teacher evaluates the assignments (assignments 1–4). To pass the course, students are expected to participate in the contact days and to contribute to group work in them, as well as to complete and turn in all the assignments. Missing contact day participation will be compensated by an extra assignment. Tutor teachers will keep records of participation in group work in contact days and evaluate the compensatory assignments.

Qualifications

-

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· Plan and assess services from a business perspective

Content

· Business approach in service management and work community operations
· Service funding channels
· Financial planning, budgeting, cost control · Productisation
· Competitive bidding and legislation on public contracts
· Service marketing process, basic competitive measures in marketing, marketing communication
· Information management systems supporting finances and marketing

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· Determine future competence visions and profiles
· Assess and develop visionary and strategy-based future competence
· Assess trends in operations

Content

· Future competence requirements
· Competence required in future service design, service provision, service guidance and financial and business approaches
· Competence assessment, development and systems, as well as assessment of operations

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· Analyse and develop themselves as leaders
· Recognise the significance of diversity and multiprofessionality for leadership
· Recognise the importance of leadership for well-being at work
· Apply strategic and competence leadership, service guidance and service provision, as well as financial and business competence in the leadership and management of work communities

Content

· Self-management and development as a leader
· Diversity and multiprofessionality of the work community in leadership work
· Knowledge-based management and leadership communication in leadership work
· Labour legislation in leadership work (procedures related to employment relationships and contracts)
· Application of leadership competence in different operating environments

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· Plan, implement and assess customer-driven service guidance independently and responsibly in cooperation with other participants

Content

· Service guidance as an approach in customer work
· Effectiveness of service
· Ethics of customer guidanc

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· Plan, implement and assess customer-driven service design and service provision independently and responsibly in cooperation with other participants

Content

Service system and governing legislation
· Service productisation and service concepts
· Service design and customer involvement
· Ethics of service provision

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· Apply strategy processes and related methods as well as assess and develop the quality of operations
· Make decisions in different service system contexts

Content

· Future operating environments and services in the social welfare and health care sector
· Decision-making in the service system
· The role of strategic thinking, decision-making, management and leadership in the work community and service provision
· Strategy process steps, related approaches and tools (analyses, BSC, knowledge-based management)
· Ethics, assessment, quality and effectiveness of strategic operations and decision-making
· Managed strategy and change process

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· describe the premises, requirements and prerequisites of the organisation where the development project is carried out
· implement data retrieval systematically in Finnish and international databases
· write a theoretical framework for development project · state aim(s), purpose(s), research tasks and final outcome of the development project
· define development and evaluations methodology and describe research methods used in project implementation
· write realisable proposal for development project and research proposal when required
· describe one’s own role as an expert and project manager in development project
· discuss issues related to ethics and reliability
· evaluate and anticipate risks of development project

Content

· Idea/brainstorming seminar
· Literature review
· Proposal for development project (research proposal enclosed if needed)
· Master thesis agreement
· Proposal seminar
· Data retrieval webcourse (1cr)
· Peer feedback

Evaluation scale

Hyväksytty/Hylätty

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:

- analyse changes in the operating environments and anticipate future developments applying the concepts and methods of futures studies
- evaluate impacts of the changing operating environments on their work, work community and organization, as well on the industry/field at large
- develop one’s competences and expertise in a focused and goal-oriented way in anticipation of the future competence requirements in the work life
- improve and innovate operations and work processes in their work community, taking into account environmental, social and economic sustainability, and using multidisciplinary and multiprofessional futures knowledge.

Content

- Future of work and income
- Future competence needs
- Changing career paths and professional identities
- Future technologies, human–technology interaction
- Sustainable future and ecological reconstruction
- Theories and methods of future studies and foresight
- Importance of foresight for innovations and strategic planning and decision-making

Materials

In the itslearning course platform.

Teaching methods

Reading/viewing online learning materials, individual written assignments and group activities in multidisciplinary groups.

International connections

Planning and implementation of the course is based on multidisciplinary collaboration and co-teaching.

Sustainable development is included in the learning objectives and contents of the course (especially Theme 3 and Assignment 3), as well as in the mode of teaching/learning: the course implementation is entirely based on distance learning on the itslearning platform and using Zoom meetings for multidisciplinary group working. All learning materials are available in a digital form, freely available and easily accessible.

Student workload

Online meeting: Collaborative work in multidisciplinary groups in Zoom, 12 h

Online learning: Independent online learning on the itslearning course platform: 123 h

Group work and assignments:
• Starting day 8.1.2024: multidisciplinary groups working with SITRA’s megatrend cards.
• Master Minds Hackathon 29.4.2024 (and a pre-meeting of the hackathon 17.4.2024): multidisciplinary teams work to solve real working-life problems. Each team presents their solution and composes a report using a provided PowerPoint template.

Individual work and assignments:
• Pre-assignment: familiarizing oneself with Sitra’s megatrend materials.
• Assignment 1. Future orientation: futures consciousness and attitudes towards future (in the itslearning course platform; tutor teacher evaluates, pass/fail).
• Assignment 2. Professional future scenarios: imagining alternative professional futures (in the itslearning course platform; tutor teacher evaluates, pass/fail).
• Assignment 3. Sustainable future: analysing sustainability transformation and ecological reconstruction from the perspective of one’s own field and work (in the itslearning course platform; tutor teacher evaluates, pass/fail).
• Assignment 4. Reflective report: utilizing futures thinking and anticipation methods in one’s own work (in the itslearning course platform; tutor teacher evaluates, pass/fail).

Content scheduling

The course is compulsory for all Turku UAS Master Students. It will be implemented partly in multidisciplinary groups comprised of students across the various study programmes, and partly within each study programme on their own itslearning course platform.

There are three online meetings (8.1.2024, 17.4.2024 and 29.4.2024) common to all students of the various study programmes.

The course is mainly based on independent learning using the study materials and assignments in the itslearning course platform. In addition, the study programmes may add and cover discipline specific topics. This will be guided by the tutor teacher during the programme’s contact days.

***

PRE-ASSIGMENT

The Future Operating Environments course will start already on TUAS Master School Opening Day 8.1.2024 with an orientation to the course and multiprofessional team discussions in which team members share experiences and thoughts on the impacts of megatrends on their professional field and their own work.

Familiarize yourself with the following materials and be prepared to discuss megatrends on the opening day:
• Sitra 2023: Megatrends
• Sitra 2023: Megatrend cards 2023

Zoom link for the megatrend activity 8.1.2024: https://turkuamk.zoom.us/j/62634660090

***

THEME 1: CHANGING WORLD AND WORKING LIFE (calendar weeks 2–5)
• Common starting day 8.1. for all students of the various study programmes: orientation to the course, a keynote talk on the future working life and competence requirements, and group work with SITRA’s megatrend cards (tutor teachers will guide working of the groups).
• Students familiarize themselves independently with the materials in the itslearning course platform.
• Assignment: Future orientation (DL 4.2.)
• (Each study programme may arrange lectures by TUAS specialists on themes such as new technologies, circular economy etc. during the programme’s contact days.)


THEME 2: FUTURES STUDIES AND ANTICIPATION (calendar weeks 6–9)
• Students familiarize themselves independently with the materials in the itslearning course platform.
• Assignment 2: Professional future scenarios (DL 3.3.2024).


THEME 3: SUSTAINABLE FUTURE (calendar weeks 10–14)
• Students familiarize themselves independently with the materials in the itslearning course platform.
• Assignment 3: Sustainable future (DL 7.4.2024).


THEME 4: SHAPING MY OWN FUTURE (calendar weeks 15–19)
• Students familiarize themselves independently with the materials in the itslearning course platform.
• Group work: Master Minds Hackathon 29.4.2024. (a full-day event) and its pre-meeting 17.4. at 10–11) for all students of the various study programmes. In the Hackathon, multidisciplinary student teams work to solve real working-life problems, i.e. assignments provided by commissoners. Students will familiarize themselves with the Hackathon instructions and assignments before the Hackathon day in the itslearning platform and submit their team reports there after the Hackathon (DL 5.5.2024.). There are two optional ways of participating in the Hackathon: 1) as a commissioner, or 2) as a member of a team
• Assignment 4: a reflective report on utilizing futures thinking and anticipation methods in one’s own work (DL 12.5.2024).

Further information

Time and location:

Online meetings in Zoom: Monday 8.1.2024, a pre-meeting of the hackathon Wednesday 17.4.2024 at 10–11 and Master Minds Hackathon Monday 29.4.2024 at 9–17.30.

Evaluation scale

Hyväksytty/Hylätty

Assessment methods and criteria

Assessment will be based on the individual and group assignments submitted in the itslearning course platform and on the demonstrated contribution to the group work in contact days (i.e. in online meetings).

Tutor teacher evaluates the assignments (assignments 1–4). To pass the course, students are expected to participate in the contact days and to contribute to group work in them, as well as to complete and turn in all the assignments. Missing contact day participation will be compensated by an extra assignment. Tutor teachers will keep records of participation in group work in contact days and evaluate the compensatory assignments.

Qualifications

-

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· specify the knowledge base of the development project
· produce a written description of the progress of the development project so far
· evaluate the progress of the development project in relation to the plan (eg staying on schedule, progressing towards the goal, functionality of selected research and development methods, operation of the project organization)

Content

· A description of the progress of the development project so far, based on the structure (contents) of the final report (project progress assessment as part of the description)
· Presentation of the progress of the development project so far to the client/sponsor or in other agreed manner

Evaluation scale

Hyväksytty/Hylätty

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· specify the knowledge base of the development project
· produce a written description of the progress of the development project so far
· evaluate the progress of the development project in relation to the plan (eg staying on schedule, progressing towards the goal, functionality of selected research and development methods, operation of the project organization)

Content

· A description of the progress of the development project so far, based on the structure (contents) of the final report (project progress assessment as part of the description)
· Presentation of the progress of the development project so far to the client/sponsor or in other agreed manner

Evaluation scale

Hyväksytty/Hylätty

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· Analyse and develop themselves as leaders
· Recognise the significance of diversity and multiprofessionality for leadership
· Recognise the importance of leadership for well-being at work
· Apply strategic and competence leadership, service guidance and service provision, as well as financial and business competence in the leadership and management of work communities

Content

· Self-management and development as a leader
· Diversity and multiprofessionality of the work community in leadership work
· Knowledge-based management and leadership communication in leadership work
· Labour legislation in leadership work (procedures related to employment relationships and contracts)
· Application of leadership competence in different operating environments

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· Plan and assess services from a business perspective

Content

· Business approach in service management and work community operations
· Service funding channels
· Financial planning, budgeting, cost control · Productisation
· Competitive bidding and legislation on public contracts
· Service marketing process, basic competitive measures in marketing, marketing communication
· Information management systems supporting finances and marketing

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:

- analyse changes in the operating environments and anticipate future developments applying the concepts and methods of futures studies
- evaluate impacts of the changing operating environments on their work, work community and organization, as well on the industry/field at large
- develop one’s competences and expertise in a focused and goal-oriented way in anticipation of the future competence requirements in the work life
- improve and innovate operations and work processes in their work community, taking into account environmental, social and economic sustainability, and using multidisciplinary and multiprofessional futures knowledge.

Content

- Future of work and income
- Future competence needs
- Changing career paths and professional identities
- Future technologies, human–technology interaction
- Sustainable future and ecological reconstruction
- Theories and methods of future studies and foresight
- Importance of foresight for innovations and strategic planning and decision-making

Materials

In the itslearning course platform.

Teaching methods

Studying instructed learning materials, individual written assignments, group work in multidisciplinary groups, reading and discussing in reading groups in your own study programme.

Student workload

Contact days and lectures: 15 h
Online and virtual working individually and in groups: 120 h

Group work and assignments:
• Starting day 28.8.2023: multidisciplinary groups working with SITRA’s megatrend cards.
• Reading groups within each study programme: reading and discussing research articles/papers/reports, creating a visual presentation of the key ideas and publishing it in a discussion forum in the itslearning course platform (tutor teacher evaluates, pass/fail).
• Hackathon 27.11.2023 (a pre-meeting of the hackathon 15.11.2023): multidisciplinary groups work to solve real working-life problems.

Individual work and assignments:
• Orientation assignment: Futures consciousness and attitudes towards future (in the itslearning course platform; tutor teacher evaluates, pass/fail).
• Scenario assignment: imagining alternative professional futures (in the itslearning course platform; tutor teacher evaluates, pass/fail).
• Reflective report on utilizing futures thinking and anticipation methods in one’s own work (in the itslearning course platform; tutor teacher evaluates, pass/fail).

Content scheduling

The course is compulsory for all Turku UAS Master Students. It will be implemented partly in groups comprised of students across the various study programmes, and partly as team and individual work within each study programme.

There are three contact days (Zoom-meetings: 28.8.2023, 15.11.2023 and 27.11.2023).) common to all students of the various study programmes, and further, there are common study materials and assignments in the itslearning course platform. In addition, the study programmes may add and cover discipline specific topics. This will be guided by the tutor teacher during the programme’s contact days.

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THEME 1: CHANGING WORLD AND WORKING LIFE (calendar weeks 35-37)
• Common starting day 28.8. for all students of the various study programmes: orientation to the course, a keynote talk on the future working life and competence requirements, and group work with SITRA’s megatrend cards (tutor teachers will guide working of the groups).
• Students familiarize themselves independently with the materials in the itslearning course platform.
• Orientation assignment: Futures consciousness and attitudes towards future (DL 17.9.)
• (Each study programme may arrange lectures by TUAS specialists on themes such as new technologies, circular economy etc. during the programme’s contact days.)

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THEME 2: FUTURES STUDIES AND ANTICIPATION (calendar weeks 38-41)
• Students familiarize themselves independently with the materials in the itslearning course platform.
• Scenario assignment: imagining alternative professional futures (DL 15.10.)

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THEME 3: CHANGING WORKING LIFE IN MY FIELD (calendar weeks 42-45)
• Reading groups: reading and discussing research articles in groups that meet virtually or face to face, and creating a visual presentation based on the key ideas of the discussion. Readings are related to the changing work, working environment and competence requirements in the field of the study programme. The visual presentation will be shared in the itslearning course platform (DL 12.11.).

• Tutor teacher organizes the reading groups and compiles the list of readings (or guides students to find relevant research articles and reports).

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THEME 4: SHAPING MY OWN FUTURE (calendar weeks (viikot 46-49)
• Students familiarize themselves independently with the materials in the itslearning course platform.
• Common Hackathon day 27.11. (a pre-meeting of the hackathon 16.11.) for all students of the various study programmes: group working to solve real working-life problems related to sustainable future. Students will familiarize themselves with the Hackathon instructions and assignments before the Hackathon day in the itslearning platform and submit their team reports there after the Hackathon (DL 3.12.).

There are two possible ways to participate in the hackathon: 1) as a commissioner or 2) as a student solving working life problems in a multidisciplinary small group.

• Final assignment: a reflective report on utilizing futures thinking and anticipation methods in one’s own work (DL 10.12.).

Evaluation scale

Hyväksytty/Hylätty

Assessment methods and criteria

Assessment will be based on the individual and group assignments submitted in the itslearning course platform and on the demonstrated contribution to the group work in contact days.

Tutor teacher evaluates the assignments (assignments 1–4). To pass the course, students are expected to participate in the contact days and to contribute to group work in them, as well as to complete and turn in all the assignments. Missing contact day participation will be compensated by an extra assignment. Tutor teachers will keep records of participation in group work in contact days and evaluate the compensatory assignments.

Qualifications

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Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· describe the premises, requirements and prerequisites of the organisation where the development project is carried out
· implement data retrieval systematically in Finnish and international databases
· write a theoretical framework for development project · state aim(s), purpose(s), research tasks and final outcome of the development project
· define development and evaluations methodology and describe research methods used in project implementation
· write realisable proposal for development project and research proposal when required
· describe one’s own role as an expert and project manager in development project
· discuss issues related to ethics and reliability
· evaluate and anticipate risks of development project

Content

· Idea/brainstorming seminar
· Literature review
· Proposal for development project (research proposal enclosed if needed)
· Master thesis agreement
· Proposal seminar
· Data retrieval webcourse (1cr)
· Peer feedback

Evaluation scale

Hyväksytty/Hylätty

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· specify the knowledge base of the development project
· produce a written description of the progress of the development project so far
· evaluate the progress of the development project in relation to the plan (eg staying on schedule, progressing towards the goal, functionality of selected research and development methods, operation of the project organization)

Content

· A description of the progress of the development project so far, based on the structure (contents) of the final report (project progress assessment as part of the description)
· Presentation of the progress of the development project so far to the client/sponsor or in other agreed manner

Evaluation scale

Hyväksytty/Hylätty

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· Determine future competence visions and profiles
· Assess and develop visionary and strategy-based future competence
· Assess trends in operations

Content

· Future competence requirements
· Competence required in future service design, service provision, service guidance and financial and business approaches
· Competence assessment, development and systems, as well as assessment of operations

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· Plan, implement and assess customer-driven service design and service provision independently and responsibly in cooperation with other participants

Content

Service system and governing legislation
· Service productisation and service concepts
· Service design and customer involvement
· Ethics of service provision

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· Apply strategy processes and related methods as well as assess and develop the quality of operations
· Make decisions in different service system contexts

Content

· Future operating environments and services in the social welfare and health care sector
· Decision-making in the service system
· The role of strategic thinking, decision-making, management and leadership in the work community and service provision
· Strategy process steps, related approaches and tools (analyses, BSC, knowledge-based management)
· Ethics, assessment, quality and effectiveness of strategic operations and decision-making
· Managed strategy and change process

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

After completing the course, the student is able to:
· Plan, implement and assess customer-driven service guidance independently and responsibly in cooperation with other participants

Content

· Service guidance as an approach in customer work
· Effectiveness of service
· Ethics of customer guidanc

Evaluation scale

H-5