1. DSI 20041 WWW-BASED SEMINAR AS A PART OF KNOWLEDGE WORK COURSE: WHO BENEFITS FROM IT? Pekka Makkonen University of Jyväskylä Information Systems Science Finland, Europe

2. DSI 20042 Course An undergraduate course for the first-year majors: Knowledge work and its tools Themes Productivity of knowledge work Analyzing individual knowledge work Analyzing collaboration and work management PC software as improvement of productivity Groupware as improvement of productivity

3. DSI 20043 Why web-based seminar? increased amount of information systems education as well as students at universities-> impossibility to organize conventional seminars Need for more flexibility because of heterogeneity of the students Adult education technical infrastructure has been improved (for example high-speed broadband connections to the student village)

4. DSI 20044 How? Web CT and its presentations feature Working in small groups (3 to 5 students) dealing with one typical knowledge work profession (lawyer, teacher, etc.) Presentations were put in each group’s separate workspace on the web Other groups commented on the outcomes Control groups to compare the value

5. DSI 20045 Who benefits from web-based seminar? Evaluation Using a SOLO (Structure of the Observed Learning Outcome) and background information given by the students The SOLO taxonomy divides the learning outcomes of concepts into five classes (levels). These classes are prestructural, unistructural, multistructural, relational, and extended abstract. Both the pre-treatment and the post-treatment contained 12 separately selected items

6. DSI 20046 What we got The WWW-seminar suits best for males and the students of non-IT faculties Age is not an important factor concerning WWW-based learning The web-based seminar appears to be effective if students work in small groups and two students might be the optimal number in a group