Management of Knowledge and Competences (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Content scheduling

Pre-assignment opens in ITSlearning on March 11, 2025.
On-campus days: March 18, 2025, and May 20, 2025, from 9 AM to 4 PM.
Final learning assignment submission: May 27, 2025.

Content:
- Strategy-based competence development, methods, and systems.
- Personal competence profile.
- Concepts related to competence and their interrelationships.
- Developing individual, team, and organization.
- Competence needs development and identifying competence (competence goals, competence mapping).
- Impact of competence development.
- Importance of learning environments in competence development.

Objective

During this course the students will deepen their knowledge body on knowledge and competence management and learn to link it to the strategic and operational management. After completing this course the student:
- is able to develop the competence of personnel so that the organisation's visio and future needs for competence are taken into attention
- is able to evaluate the knowledge and competences on the organisational, group and individual level
- is able to advance the practices of shared learning within his/her own work community
- is able to apply the theory of learning organisation when planning and implementing personnel development
- is able to plan and implement processes for developing of competence and operations as well as changes

Content

Core contents:
- key theories explaining organisational learning and knowledge and competence management
- strategy oriented development of the knowledge and competence, the methods and systems, change management
- from evaluating knowledge and competence towards effectiveness of development

Materials

- eOSMO Workbook: eOSMO Workbook Introduction
- JRC report: GreenComp. The European sustainability competence framework.
- DigComp: The Digital Competence Framework for citizens.
- EntreComp: The Entrepreneurship Competence Framework.
- LifeComp: The European framework for the personal, social and learning to learn key competence.

Independently studied materials: Everyone is also expected to actively search for related materials from both literature and peer-reviewed articles.

Teaching methods

The course is mainly conducted online but includes two on-campus meetings on March 18, 2025, and May 20, 2025, from 9 AM to 4 PM.

Learning assignments involve planning your own competence development (e.g., through a reflection diary) and assessing the competence of your own work community and proposing actions. If you do not have your own work community or, for example, a hobby community to which you can apply the task, it will be challenging to complete the course.

The course applies both community-based and individual learning methods. During the course meetings, a lot of group work is done, and views are shared with other course participants. During the remote periods, mainly independent tasks are done, but some of them require the involvement of your own work community.

Exam schedules

No exam.

The grade given for the course based on learning assignments cannot be raised.

Pedagogic approaches and sustainable development

A sustainable future requires change-makers, so in addition to professional skills, the studies develop learners' innovation competencies, self-awareness, curiosity, ethical skills, leadership, empathy, and responsibility. By developing such generic skills in the implementation and methods of learning, sustainable development is also promoted.

The tasks utilize, among other things, the EU's GreenCOMP framework.

Completion alternatives

No alternative methods of completion.

Student workload

The scope of the course is 5 ECTS (135 hours):
- On-campus days: 12 hours
- Independent work: 123 hours.

Evaluation methods and criteria

Teacher assessment.

The weight of the personal competence development report is 40% of the course grade, and the weight of the organizational development report is 60% of the course grade.

Failed (0)

The submitted assignments do not address the majority of the aspects requested in the instructions.

Has not submitted all assignments according to the given schedule, nor attended the on-campus learning days or completed substitute assignments as agreed.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

Has submitted all assignments and participated in the on-campus learning days. Demonstrates a general understanding of the course content in the learning assignments and has successfully completed all tasks (any absences have been compensated with approved substitute assignments).

Assessment criteria, good (3-4)

Has submitted all assignments on time and participated actively in the on-campus learning days. Demonstrates a good understanding of the course content in the learning assignments and shows the ability to apply what has been learned. Has successfully completed all tasks (any absences have been compensated with approved substitute assignments).

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Has submitted all assignments on time and participated actively in the on-campus learning days. Demonstrates a comprehensive understanding and application of the course content in the learning assignments. Has successfully completed all tasks (any absences have been compensated with approved substitute assignments).

Qualifications

Basic business studies

Further information

If you do not have your own work community or, for example, a hobby community to which you can apply the learning assignments, it will be challenging to complete the course.

Quota for the Open University of Applied Sciences: three student places.