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Volume 37, numéro 1

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The CVA Takes DACUM to Finland

By Larry Coffin and Pierre Morin

The CVA was contacted by the Helsinki Business College to see if they would conduct a workshop giving an overview of the DACUM Model, as this institution is moving to a competency based model of education. In addition to the college personnel, a number of external people were invited to attend. These included administrators from other colleges as well as people from the Ministry of Education.

The Helsinki Business College is one of the major business education institutions in Helsinki and in Finland. The private college was founded in 1881 and it is owned by the Helsinki Chamber of Commerce.

The interest in the DACUM Model was the result of a workshop attended in 2002 in Winnipeg by Ms Helena Allahwerdi, director of International Affairs at the Helsinki Business College (HBC). Sensing that this model could enable the HBC to better prepare its students to meet the competency requirements and standards of the business and industry sector in Finland and internationally, Ms Allahwerdi convinced her colleague, Ms Hely Westerholm, director of Studies, of going to Canada to attend the CVA DACUM Training Workshops and to visit a number of colleges utilizing DACUM or other competency-based approaches derived from the DACUM model (for an account of Ms Westerholm's journey in Canada, see the article that she graciously wrote for the benefit of our readers in this issue of The Journal)

Upon her return to Finland, Ms Westerholm strongly recommended that the CVA be formally invited to provide an overview of the DACUM model as well as to facilitate an analysis, using the DACUM methodology, to identify the competency profile required of instructors at the HBC.

Due to the interest, the DACUM model overview workshop was divided into two groups of 20 which allowed for more interaction. Following this first presentation, the participants were again divided into two groups:

• Participants from other business colleges in Finland, from the business sector and from the Government of Finland's Board of Education were invited to attend a workshop facilitated by Pierre where they were provided with a more in-depth presentation on the principles, features, potential uses and benefits as well as on development and implementation process of the DACUM model.
• Instructors from the HBC and other technical schools were offered to take part in the analysis session which was facilitated by Larry. Following the analysis session, which was done to illustrate the model as well as identifying the skills for instructors, a time was set aside for further discussion and comments on the process and results. The comments were very positive and the committee was impressed with the results as well as the process.

Verbal and written reviews of both workshops were very positive. The following remark by one of the attendees captures the general feeling at the end of the session: "If we want to use the DACUM model in Finland, the next step will be to translate it in Finish and to adapt it to our training system!"

We made it known to the HBC authorities that the CVA is ready to contribute the expertise and experience of its membership to make this wish come true.

With 35 years of experience in competency-based program development and over 300 occupational analyses to his credit, Larry Coffin is Canada's leading expert on the DACUM process. Pierre Morin is a training and competence management specialist. With more than 30 years of experience in the fields of education and competency-based learning, Pierre has pioneered the implementation of the DACUM model in several organizations of the private and public sectors across Canada and abroad.

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