Creating experiences for international students, a handbook for IDS Helga
Martikka, Alina (2021)
Lataukset:
2021
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2021052110178
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2021052110178
Tiivistelmä
This thesis dives into the topic of experience creation with a twist on experience creation related to international students who are studying in Finland. To get relevant results on what international student’s want from experience creation, qualitative research and semi-structured interviews were used to obtain answers for the question at hand. The answers were analyzed and through them the needed research was decided to get even more insight on valuable experience creation for international students.
The theory of this thesis and the research done for it explore the three main topics, education, culture, and experiences with a handful of subtopics like experiential learning, cultural dimensions, crossing cultures and experience design. With these subtopics, the author set out to find out what it takes to create genuinely meaningful experiences that can help international students to integrate better to the Finnish culture, student culture and way of life.
The product created with this thesis was a handbook for IDS Helga, who organizes experiences for international students in Haaga-Helia. The handbook was created for the IDS Helga event coordinators to help them with experience creation and what to take into consideration when creating experiences in a multicultural atmosphere. The product is the handbook that focuses on three main topics, education, culture, and experiences and how to use all these topics to create valuable experiences for international students in Haaga-Helia.
The theory of this thesis and the research done for it explore the three main topics, education, culture, and experiences with a handful of subtopics like experiential learning, cultural dimensions, crossing cultures and experience design. With these subtopics, the author set out to find out what it takes to create genuinely meaningful experiences that can help international students to integrate better to the Finnish culture, student culture and way of life.
The product created with this thesis was a handbook for IDS Helga, who organizes experiences for international students in Haaga-Helia. The handbook was created for the IDS Helga event coordinators to help them with experience creation and what to take into consideration when creating experiences in a multicultural atmosphere. The product is the handbook that focuses on three main topics, education, culture, and experiences and how to use all these topics to create valuable experiences for international students in Haaga-Helia.