Overview:
- Credits:
- 10.0
- Level:
- 4
- Semester:
- Summer
- Subject:
- Management Information Systems
- School:
- Business
- Coordinator:
- Professor Séamas Kelly
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Curricular information is subject to change
On completing this module students should be able to:
· Critically assess the role of information, technology and knowledge in contemporary organisations.
· Demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of the different ways in which new collaborative and mobile computing technologies are implicated in transforming work and organising practices. In particular, practices associated with: communication, knowledge creation/sharing, and learning; surveillance and organisational control; the coordination of distributed work and the emergence of new modes of collaborative production.
· Demonstrate a sound and actionable understanding of the management implications of these emergent forms of work and ICT-enabled organisational innovation.
Student Effort Type | Hours |
---|---|
Seminar (or Webinar) | 18 |
Specified Learning Activities | 210 |
Total | 228 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Essay: An essay that synthesises your main learnings from the module and offers a critical reflection on the personal significance and implications of the material for you. | Coursework (End of Trimester) | n/a | Graded | No | 60 |
Continuous Assessment: Student contribution throughout the term: based on short written reflections submitted each week and on contributions to on-going class discussions. | Throughout the Trimester | n/a | Graded | No | 25 |
Presentation: Short group presentation, based upon students' critical assessment of prescribed reading. Each student will only be required to contribute to one presentation over the course of the term. | Varies over the Trimester | n/a | Graded | No | 15 |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Spring | No |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
Individual feedback will be provided on student presentations. General group/class feedback will be provided regularly on the weekly reflections submitted and the reflective essay.
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