Opinto-opas

Objective

After the course student can:
- Have a process and an eye for quality when writing their thesis.
- Obtain information by trying out new products, services, events or methods in practice.
- Master the principles of collaborative developmental skills and the interactive production of services.
- Understand what innovativeness is as an approach and use innovative methods in their work.
- Understand the importance of ongoing evaluation of development projects and know different methods of evaluation.
- Can take advantage of different facilitating methods
- Recognize ones own strengths and development needs in facilitated process
- Can plan documentation of process and analyse produced material
- Recognize the importance of facilitating and potential use as a tool in creative sector service design, decision making, co-development and co-learning

Content

- Collecting, analyzing and reporting data as part of Master Thesis
- Dialogical interaction, listening and group dynamic processes
- The importance of facilitating and potential for using as a tool in creative sector for development, decision process, co-development and co-learning
- Getting to know communal methods and their documentation
- Goal oriented facilitation

Evaluation scale

0-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

The student knows the relevance of facilitation based co-operation and interaction in developing the creative sector. The student recognizes own strengths and development areas as a facilitator. The student understands the basics of analyzing the data collected through facilitation.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

The student can develop his/her skills as a supervisor and facilitator and deepen interaction competences. The student is able to experiment, test and choose suitable facilitation techniques to different occasions and disseminate development oriented thinking to others. The student can collect data useing facilitation methods and analyse and rapport it.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

The student develops his/her skills as a facilitator of group situations and applies his/her dialogic interaction and group coaching competences. The student is able to reflect his/her actions as a coach and as a person being coached. The student can choose and justify the facilitation techniques to different needs and document and analyse the process and its outcomes critically and raport it in a clear and logical manner.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

The student knows facilitation based technics and can apply them to research and development needs of the field of cultural production. The student can choose suitable technics to different work situations and act as a facilitator. The student can document and analyse the data collected in facilitated processes as part of research