Ville Saarikoski
Distance learning
All material will be on the online platform. If you want a sneak peek into the course go to the home page villesaarikoski.com in each chapter you should also find a list of literature.
The course consists of 8 chapters.
Each chapter contains a quiz. To achieve grade one, you do the quizzes.
To achieve grade two, students also need to be active on the discussion forums.
To achieve grade three there is a specific task, which you also need to do. To achieve grade four to five, students will also need to return an essay. The essay can be written in English or Finnish, although English is preferred
15.01.2022 - 30.06.2022
29.11.2021 - 15.04.2022
20 - 500
Korkeakouluyksikkö D, Verkkokampus, liko
Ville Saarikoski
Complementary competence, bachelor’s studies in English (CCH2), Business, administration and law
Laurea Virtual Campus
5 credits
This is a MOOC type course. Te course has been created to be rather scalable and alternative ways of doing the course also need to be highly scalable. For this reason there are presently no alternative ways.
Digital transformation is taking place in the community at large and at the work place in general.
Some companies may feel threatened by change others embrace it. This course works with no company in particular, but welcomes feedback from practice.
The course is a hop on hop off course. In the beginning all registered are encouraged and prompted to visit the online learning platform. After this the students can study at their own pace. Towards the end, the teacher will encourage students to get everything done in time.
This course will start on 15.1 and will end 30.5.Note if you do assignment for grade 4 to 5, you need to submit that 15 days earlier to allow time for peer reviews,
A student who is new to Laurea will receive a laurea email, studentnumber@laurea.fi and instructions how to board the canvas platform.
Unfortunately Laurea does not yet (4.11.2021) promote signing in through the Haka application, but there is a commitment to implement it.
The course instructor is seeking for opportunities to teach the course either online or in a classroom setting in campuses around the world.
The course has been taught in a classroom setting for example in New Delhi India at IILM in November 2017 (https://www.iilm.edu/) at the WSG University of Economy in Poland in 2012-2015 (http://www.cwz.wsg.byd.pl/en/homepage.1.html)
In 2021 the course will be taught and available in co-operation with campusonline.fi to students in all the universities of applied sciences in Finland. The course will also be promoted at different international venues and interested parties are encouraged to enroll and familiarize themselves with the content.
The course has been designed to be time and place independent.
Within the start and end times, the student can choose when to start and when to finish and when to study. Please make a plan to ensure that you allocate enough time for your studies.
1 credit is 27 hours of study. This is a five credit course. Plan to use time and you will get more out of the course.
I have uploaded the content of the course on to my web page villesaarikoski.com. Note that the actual course will be conducted on the online learning platform canvas and will contain additional elements (quizzes, places to return your assignments etc)
The course is a hop on hop off course. In the beginning all registered are encouraged and prompted to visit the online learning platform. After this the students can study at their own pace. Towards the end, the teacher will encourage students to get everything done in time.
This course will start on 15.1 and will end 30.5.Note if you do assignment for grade 4 to 5, you need to submit that 15 days earlier to allow time for peer reviews,
A student who is new to Laurea will receive a laurea email, studentnumber@laurea.fi and instructions how to board the canvas platform.
Unfortunately Laurea does not yet (4.11.2021) promote signing in through the Haka application, but there is a commitment to implement it.