ITC571 Emerging Technologies and Innovation

Session 1 2018

Faculty of Business, Justice and Behavioural Sciences

School of Computing and Mathematics

Internal Mode

Welcome to a new session of study at Charles Sturt University. Please refer to the University’s Acknowledgement of Country (http://student.csu.edu.au/study/acknowledgement-of-country).

Consultation procedures

Any questions concerning the teaching of this subject can be made by contacting your Subject Lecturer.

Email is the best option. Please send a brief message regarding the issue and include the subject name and subject code in your email –it really helps to know which class you belong to, before I respond to your query. If your query is urgent then meet with your respective Course Coordinator on Level-4.

Class times and location

General Timetable as below will be available at the following website before the start of 201830 semester, which can be accessed on any Mobile Phone or IPAD:

https://csutimetable.au.studygroup.com/Melbourne/

If you cannot contact your Subject Coordinator, please contact your teaching team using the contact details and consultation procedures provided on your Interact2 subject site.

What is your subject about? A brief overview

This subject requires research and project work, at an advanced level, on a topic related to emerging technologies and innovation. In the context of professional practice, students will draw upon prior learning in their Masters course to execute an independent capstone project in a selected topic in Information Technology.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this subject, you should:

be able to interpret and evaluate an overview of recent trends in emerging technologies and innovation;

be able to perform literature searches and critically analyse the literature in the chosen topic; be able to critically reflect on and synthesize complex information, problems, concepts and theories in the chosen topic;

be able to apply established research methodologies with autonomy;

be able to apply project management and information and communication technologies

(ICT) tools to plan, execute, record and present their research and project work as a capstone experience;

be able to demonstrate advanced communication skills in transmitting their capstone experiences and ideas;

be able to justify to an audience of peers any conclusions and professional decisions made that contribute to creating new knowledge.

Pass Requirements

A student must obtain a total mark of at least 50% and a mark of at least 20/40 for assessment item 5 in order to pass this subject.

To be eligible for the grade Additional Assessment (AA) you must have submitted all assessment items in this subject.

If you choose not to complete an assessment item and receive an overall mark between 45 and 49 then you will not be granted an AA.

Key Subjects

Passing a key subject is one of the indicators of satisfactory academic progress through your course. You must pass the key subjects in your course at no more than two attempts. The first time you fail a key subject you will be 'at risk' of exclusion; if you fail a second time you will be excluded from the course.

The Academic Progress Policy (https://policy.csu.edu.au/view.current.php?id=00250) sets out the requirements and procedures for satisfactory academic progress, for the exclusion of students who fail to progress satisfactorily and for the termination of enrolment for students who fail to complete in the maximum allowed time.

Assumed knowledge

Academic integrity means acting with honesty, fairness and responsibility, and involves observing and maintaining ethical standards in all aspects of academic work. This subject assumes that you understand what constitutes plagiarism, cheating and collusion. If you are a new student we expect you to complete the modules called Academic Integrity at CSU (https://interact2.csu.edu.au/webapps/blackboard/execute/courseMain?course_id=_16412_1&task=true

Prescribed Text

There is NO prescribed text for this subject.

What you read and how much you read will depend on your chosen topic.

The textbooks required for each of your enrolled subjects can also be found via the Student Portal Textbooks (http://student.csu.edu.au/study/study-essentials/textbooks) page.

Subject and Assessment Schedule

Schedule

Session    Week

Topics

Week         Commencing

1                   26 Feb 2018Topic 1 How to find trends with emerging technologies & innovation

2	05 March	Topic 1 continued
	2018

Learning activities

Selecting a topic and setup Interact Project site and/or use blog for documentation of weekly progress

Capstone Research Topic is finalised and posted to main Discussion forum. Project Blog is ready and contains weekly progress reports

Session	Week	Topics	Learning activities
Week	Commencing
3	12 March	Topic 2 Project		Assessment Item 1 Project Blog for Weekly
	2018	Planning		Progress Reports (10%) is underway and
				continues each week until the end of semester.
				Use software to develop a project plan with WBS,
				milestones and Gantt chart. e.g. Microsoft Project
				or open source tools like GanttProject (
				http://www.ganttproject.biz/) or OpenProj (
				http://sourceforge.net/projects/openproj) or
				OpenProject ( https://www.openproject.org/about)
				or ProjectLibre ( http://www.projectlibre.org/)
4	19 March	Topic 3 Research		Assessment Item 2 Capstone Project Proposal
	2018	Skills		and Plan (10%) is due on 22 March 2018
5	26 March	Topic 4 Extracting		Continue to work with Modules and your capstone
	2018	information from		project work.
		readings for critical
		analysis
6	02 April 2018	Topic 4 Continued		Continue to work with Modules and your capstone
				project work.
	09 April 2018	Mid Session Break		Continue to work with Modules and your capstone
				project work.
	20 April 2018	Mid Session Break		Continue to work with Modules and your capstone
				project work.
7	23 April 2018	Topic 5 Preparing and		Assessment Item 3 Annotated Bibliography (25%)
		writing a literature		is due on 26 April 2018
		review or capstone
		report
8	30 April 2018	Topic 5 continued		Assessment Item 4 Research, Innovation and
				Ethical Analysis Quiz (15%) is due on 10 May
			2018
9	07 May 2018	Topic 6 Presenting a		Prepare/Edit Final Project Report and Seminar that
		seminar		documents ALL of the Capstone Project.
10	14 May 2018	Capstone Project		Assessment Item 5 Capstone Project Report and
		Report and Seminar		Seminar (40%) is due on 30 May 2018
11	21 May 2018	Capstone Project		Capstone Project Presentations
		Presentations
12	28 May 2018	Capstone Project		Capstone Project Presentations
		Presentations
	04 June 2018	Exam Period		There is no Final Exam for this Subject
	15 June 2018	Exam Period		There is no Final Exam for this Subject

Subject Content

There are number of topics that you will cover in this subject. These include the following:

How to find trends with emerging technologies and innovation

Project planning

Research skills

Extracting information from reading for critical analysis

Preparing and writing a literature review or capstone project report

Presenting a seminar for capstone project

Subject Delivery

Class/tutorial times and location

If you are enrolled in an internal offering of this subject, your class times can be found at Timetable @ CSU (http://timetable.csu.edu.au). If you are enrolled in the online offering of the subject, this timetable will not apply. Find out how to use Timetable @ CSU via the Student Portal Class Timetable (http://student.csu.edu.au/study/study-essentials/timetable) page.

Learning, teaching and support strategies

How you are expected to engage with the subject

There will be three hours class every week for this subject. Details of the time/day is available on the timetable website.

All of your subject materials are available on the Interact site under the Topics link in the left hand side menu. I suggest that for each topic you read the learning objectives carefully, read the overview, quickly skim the text to get an idea of the topic. Once you have an idea of the topic's content, try and make a good set of notes under each of the headings in the topic. This will start to give you a good understanding of the topic and will assist you remember everything in the assignments.

In this subject there will be face-to-face meetings every week with the Lecturer in total each having a duration of three hours. Before you come to the class, you need to have looked at the topic in the Interact site and read the text so that you can contribute to the class and derive more meaning from the activities that we will do online.

It is helpful to have a small task to complete early in the session so that you have a focus in the subject from the very first day, and so I have set a small task (selecting a topic and setting up the project interact site) in week 2 as part of your assessment item If you don’t attempt this task, your Lecturer may contact you by phone or email to have a chat about study and if there are any issues.

Information on effective time management is available on the CSU Learning Support website via the following link: http://student.csu.edu.au

You can also contact an adviser through Student Central on the following number:

1800 275 278 (or +61 2 6933 7507 from outside Australia).

Library Services

The CSU Library website provides access to online material and print, using Primo Search to find online journal articles, eBooks, hardcopy books from CSU Library (see Library Manager for Interlibrary Loan Requests), company & government reports, eJournals, dissertations, theses, newspapers including Business & Financial newspapers in Factiva (See Business & IT Journal Databases), and other reference resources (eg. Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian standards, online encyclopaedias & dictionaries to be read on the computer). You will also find library guides, Subject Reserve for any readings eg. ITC100, ACC100, etc., and online assistance to help you use the Library's resources such as Ask a Librarian – Live Chat and Ask a Librarian - Web Form.

You can find Library Services on both the SGA library online catalogue:

http://primo.unilinc.edu.au/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=SGA

The SGA library online catalogue allows students to Sign In, My Account shows student’s current library record including all books on loan, Renew your borrowed books online before the due date, also Search and Request all books in the SGA library, even if unavailable due to high demand from students. Students can Request books when all books are on loan to other students. When the requested book is returned to the SGA library, the student who requested the book receives an email immediately to pick up the book from the SGA library. View your library record online 24/7 at the above web link for SGA library.

Residential school

You are not required to attend a residential school for this subject.

Your workload in this subject

Each week you should spend around 9 - 11 hours studying this subject – obviously some weeks may require more time than other depending on how you work – but the following is a guide for your information.

Supporting readings                                     3.0 hours

Participation in weekly online discussion  1.0 hour

Participation in discussion forum             2.0 to 4.0 hours

Preparation of assessment items           3 hours

The workload is packaged as 5 Asssessment Tasks:

ITEM                      DUE

1.  Project Blog for Weekly Progress Reports 10%

2.  Project Proposal and Plan 10%

3.  Annotated Bibliography 25%

4.  Research, Innovation and Ethical Analysis Quiz 15%

5.  Project Closure: Project Report and Seminar 40%

Variable –

Week 1 to

Week12

Week 4

Week 9

Week 11

Week 13/14

Assessment Items

Item	Title	Type	Value	Due date*	Return
number					date**
1	Project Blog for Weekly Progress Reports	Assignment 10%		Variable	-
2	Project Proposal and Plan	Assignment 10%		22-Mar-2018	16-Apr-2018

Charles Sturt University Subject Outline

ITC571 201830 SM I-6 February 2018-Version 1                                                                              Page 6 of 31

Item	Title	Type	Value	Due date*	Return
number					date**
3	Annotated Bibliography	Assignment 25%		26-Apr-2018	17-May-2018
4	Research Innovation and Ethical Analysis Quiz	Assignment 15%		10-May-2018	01-Jun-2018
5	Project Closure: Project Report (Blog) and	Assignment 40%		30-May-2018	21-Jun-2018
	Seminar

*  due date is the last date for assessment items to be received at the University

**  applies only to assessment items submitted by the due date

Assessment item 1

Project Blog for Weekly Progress Reports

Value: 10%

Due date: Variable

Return date: -

Submission method options

Interact2 Discussion Board

Task

WHAT TO DO:

Project Blog and Weekly Progress Reporting

1.   Set up and develop your Project Blog as required for this task and later assessment task. The blog will store entries made by you throughout the subject to document the project stages and milestones, seminar notes and other important notes. Your local lecturer may advise on a suitable alternative process if studying on-campus.

2.   You can use CSU's Thinkspace site at http://thinkspace.csu.edu.au/ (use your CSU Login ID) or a blog site of your own choice. CSU Thinkspace is recommended or else Wordpress, Google's Blogger (https://www.blogger.com/home) are common blogging systems, but you may have your own favourite site to use.

3.   Choose and develop a limited blogger profile and enter a suitable TITLE for your blog (e.g. Joe’s Wireless Technology Project) – not your full name. For WEB ADDRESS - use your student number as your account name (URL) or other unique identifier.

4.   Make a first post - a short introduction about you and the project - remember to save, then Publish the blog entry. Check with a friend or family member to ensure that he/she can see your first posting. This is also to check you have the right URL to include in this proposal and plan for your project.

5.   Post a copy of the BLOG address to to the DISCUSSION FORUM to share with others and to demonstrate that you are underway in the subject.

6.   For each week from Week 2 to Week 12 inclusive, add a blog post for each Weekly Progress Report as described below.

Weekly Progress Reports

WHAT TO DO:

1.   From Weeks 2 to 12 in the Schedule, you are required to Submit/Bring or Present a Weekly Progress Report on your Capstone project.

2.   The Weekly Reports will follow the plan you make in Assessment Item 2 Project Proposal and Plan.

3.   The format will be described by the local lecturer as student are studying in various learning

modes either in weekly classes or online weekly (on Project Blog) via Online Study mode.

4.  The template below can be modified for use:

Rationale

The Project Blog helps you to document your project and to " think by writing" as you develop, manage and record the project delivery as well as your "learning journey". This is good knowledge management.

BEWARE:

Some students think that they can pass the subject by just submitting the final assignment meeting the requirements and marking criteria. That is incorrect according to the Subject Outline. Please read the PASS Requirements for ITC571.

This task considers the students weekly progress work which may include class attendance to submit/bring/present any weekly progress work. For students studying in the Online Study mode or special cases, a collection of time-stamped weekly progress reports can be made via Project Blog.

Marking criteria

Project Blog and Weekly Progress Reporting 10%

Satisfactory = 1

Unsatisfactory = 0 
Additional Comments:

Presentation

The Presentation formats include:

•  In class each week for on-campus students.

•  Online via a BLOG site address with the website address of the PROJECT BLOG in the DISCUSSION FORUM before the start of Week 3.

Requirements

Complete the Topic 1, the readings, set up the Project Blog and start posting your weekly progress reports BEFORE the start of Week 3, otherwise you will fall behind and struggle.