Webinar Week | Online Assessment

1. The Digimentor Network: Digital Tools
and Support at TAMK
Kirsi Saarinen
Senior Lecturer, Team leader of language and communication teachers
kirsi.saarinen@tuni.fi
Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK), Finland
Designing Online Assessment, 16.6.2022

2. Structure
•Context i.e, briefly about TAMK
•The digimentor network
•Digimentor network resources
•Benefits
•Teaching and Learning Centre
•Digital tools to support teaching and learning
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3. Tampere University of Applied Sciences
TAMK is one of the most popular
UAS’s in Finland. We are
renowned for being a
multidisciplinary educator and
innovative partner with a strong
orientation to working life and
international collaboration.
Together with Tampere University
we constitute the Tampere
Universities community.
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4. TAMK is the second biggest
UAS in Finland
• over 10 000 students
• over 40 degree programmes
• appx. 700 specialists in teaching,
RDI and support services
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5. TAMK today
• Focuses on working life in education as
well as RDI cooperation
• Offers a diverse and multidisciplinary
environment and lifelong study options
Fields of expertise in schools
Built Environment and Bioeconomy
Business and Media
Industrial Engineering
Pedagogic Innovations and Culture
Social Services and Health Care
SOCIETY
TECHNOLOGY HEALTH
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Pedagogy

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THE DIGIMENTOR NETWORK
• 30 digimentors across the community, 10
digimentors at TAMK (1-3 digimentors/school)
• The network brings together representatives of
faculties and schools to share knowledge and
good practices from the perspective of their own
field
• Knowledge and ideas are shared to promote the
appropriate use of digital technologies and
thereby support learning, research, and
community engagement.

8. THE DIGIMENTOR NETWORK
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Digital tools &
environments
Pedagogy
• Peer support network that promotes
digitalization in faculties and schools
• Encourages to utilize digitalization,
supports the use of digital tools &
disseminates best practices
• Digimentors are teachers from the
faculties and schools they work in 
pedagogical knowledge in their field +
accessibility for their colleagues

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DIGIMENTOR NETWORK RESOURCES
• The Digital Toolkit
(https://sites.tuni.fi/digitaltoolkit/): A
website maintained by the Digimentor
network featuring over 100 tips and
good practices
• A Moodle area that offers support and
examples on using Moodle
• A monthly newsletter
• Trainings, news posts, publications,
etc.

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BENEFITS e.g., for a TEACHER
• If I have a problem, I can contact a
digimentor right away. We can meet
and discuss the problem together.
• Because they have pedagogical
knowledge in their field (language
teaching, engineering, physics etc.),
they can work with the teacher
suggesting e.g., tools
• Online Fast Track English ->
assessment, accessibility

11. Successful? Yes!
•One teacher
•A group of teachers e.g., language teachers
•Teachers in one school
•Guidance and sharing practices
•Training sessions
Each digimentor can decide how to use the resources
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12. • Teaching and Learning Centre of Tampere higher education
community
• TLC is a public website inviting the community members to
develop, share and get networked
• The goal is to support anyone teaching or developing teaching
work
• TLC provides a variety of topics , links to materials to choose
from for HE teachers
• e.g., Digital pedagogy and 
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13. From Teaching and Learning Centre. 2022. Digital pedagogy. https://www.tuni.fi/tlc/en/planning-and-
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15. Sources
Annala, H. Senior Lecturer. The Digimentor Network at Tampere University of Applied Sciences. Email
message. Read on 9.6.2022.
Digimentors. 2021. Tampere University of Applied Sciences. Accessed 8.6.2022.
https://intra.tuni.fi/en/teaching/teaching-tools-and-information-systems-0/digimentors
Digital toolkit. n.d. Tampere University of Applied Sciences. Accessed 8.6.2022.
https://sites.tuni.fi/digitaltoolkit/
Digital tools for teaching. 2022. Tampere University of Applied Sciences. Accessed 9.6.2022.
https://intra.tuni.fi/en/it-services/teaching-tools-and-information-systems/digital-tools-teaching
Teaching and Learning Centre. 2022. Digital pedagogy. Accessed 13.6.2022. https://www.tuni.fi/tlc/en/planning-
and-implementation-of-teaching/digital-pedagogics/
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