An electronic work desk under development for students
The development work for a student intranet and teamwork environment will be launched at JAMK. The overhaul is a part of an extensive development effort for web content management and will continue until 2013. Students and Student Union JAMKO will have a central role in the development work for web contents.
The main objective of the innovation is to create an easy-to-use electronic work desk for students. It gathers, as a single view on its own page, the up-to-date information and tools that the student needs. The aim with the new tools is to improve interaction among the students as well as between the students and the staff. Information discovery will be improved by building, in stages, a search function that covers the knowledge assets for an entire organization. If successful, the development work will make the students' daily work easier and improve students' communications.
During the spring, JAMK will also start systematic work to increase web presence. The jamk.fi site will be made even more user-friendly, and JAMK's role in social media will be defined. Also the InfoTV system will be overhauled in 2013 for all campuses.
Students hope for efficiency and interaction
A preliminary survey mapped out the development needs for the current web contents management. The participants included students, staff and stakeholder representatives. The board of JAMKO was interviewed in December 2010. In addition, the representatives of the student union participated in workshops.
The biggest deficiencies at the moment are the lack of a student intranet and the lack of a teamwork environment. The students find the dispersion of knowledge to several systems as challenging. The development work aims to meet these needs.
The preliminary survey that maps the development needs of JAMK's web content management is part of the SIKE content development endeavour.
Further details
Heli Toivola, Marketing Manager, tel. +358 (0)40 580 1659
Virpi Puttonen, Digital Marketing Specialist, tel. +358 (0)40 976 738
firstname.lastname@jamk.fi