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This is a blog about things on my mind. I am an ordinary guy from Vaasa Finland and present a teacher @VAMK University of Applied Sciences. My motto is "Carpe Diem". I try to stay curious and learn new things every day. I actually started this blog a couple of years ago when I bought an iPad as my assistant (I could not do without it anymore), but I did not have the energy to keep it up. I made a new start in April 2016. I hope that there will be posting more often in the future :)

Professionally I am into ICT & Business and interested in new trends and I want to help companies to improve their Businesses through new innovations in Digitalization and IoT. I teach System Modeling (UML), Project Management and CRM and in between tutor students in working life Projects.
I teach in English and Finnish. I like to be international and write my blogs in English. This is also a great way to improve my English skills. A while ago I found out that Lean Thinking in Teaching is cool. There might be some postings on Lean in the future.
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Wednesday, 20 April 2016

What is a Visual Control Card?

One of the things that I learned from the book "Lean Teaching" (see erlier postings) is that students benifit from to get a Visual Control Card (VSS) of the course by the time it is nearly over.  The idea is that I, as a teacher, give them my view of what I think they should know by then and what is important to take with them for the future. It is important to realize that they are studying and learning for the future, not to pass any exam *) both for me as a teacher and for the students themselves.

I have promised myself and the students that I will produce such a VCC in my courses. I have done the first one (see picture below) for my course in Project Management (in Finnish) for adults held in the Spring of 2016.  I am excited to see how it will be received. Do I get any feedback on this from the students when the course is done.

*) Footnote: Exams are By the way not the best way to measure knowledge/skills (if at all measurable).

Picture: An example of a VCC for my course in Project Management (Projektinhallinta) where I have pointed out what I think that the students should remember. They should recognize pictures, processes or phrases and get some "Ahaa" experiences if it works out well.     

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