Learning objectives |
To achieve the grade 12, students
should meet the following learning objectives with no or only minor
mistakes or errors:
- demonstrate an understanding and explain the fundamental
concepts and technologies of information systems including
hardware, software, networks as well as basic web technologies
including HTML, CSS and JavaScript (part I)
- demonstrate an understanding and compare different approaches
to developing information systems, including the initiation, the
analysis, the design and the implementation of information systems
as well as project management (part II)
- demonstrate an understanding and reflect on the key issues
related to managing information systems (IS) in an organization,
including the IS strategy, the organization and governance of the
IS function, and the management of IS services (part III)
- demonstrate an understanding of and reflect on practical issues
involved in addressing specific client problems in web-based
information systems development (part IV)
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Examination |
Informationssystemer i organisationer og
systemudvikling:
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Exam ECTS |
7,5 |
Examination form |
Written sit-in exam |
Individual or group exam |
Individual |
Assignment type |
Written assignment |
Duration |
2 hours |
Grading scale |
7-step scale |
Examiner(s) |
One internal examiner |
Exam period |
Winter |
Aids allowed to bring to the exam |
Limited aids, see the list below:
- Written sit-in-exam with pen and paper
- Written sit-in-exam on CBS' computers
- Books and compendia brought by the examinee
- Allowed dictionaries
- Notes in paper format brought by the examinee
- USB key to upload your notes before the
exam
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Make-up exam/re-exam |
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
If the number of registered candidates for the make-up
examination/re-take examination warrants that it may most
appropriately be held as an oral examination, the programme office
will inform the students that the make-up examination/re-take
examination will be held as an oral examination
instead.
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Description of the exam
procedure
2 hours written sit in exam.
The exam comprises multiple choice questions on the 12 individual
topics of the course, analytical and
programming-related questions to solve, and essay questions to
reflect on specific
topics.
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Course content and
structure |
The course provides an introduction to the technology,
development and management of business information systems. The
course assumes no prior knowledge of IS or IT, new concepts and
terms are defined with comprehensive explanations. In this
fast-moving area, the course covers both the crucial underpinnings
of the subject as well as the most recent business and technology
applications. The lecture walks through the following subjects:
Part I. INTRODUCTION:
1. Basic concepts, enterprise and functional business
information systems
2. Hardware and software
3. Networks and the Internet
4. Web-based information systems
Part II. IS DEVELOPMENT
5. Acquiring versus developing information systems
6. Initiating system development
7. System analysis and process modelling
8. System design and data modelling
9. System implementation and project management
Part III. IS MANAGEMENT
10. Information systems strategy
11. Information systems organization and governance
12. Providing end-user services and service management
Part IV. PROJECTS & WRAP-UP
13. Presentation of website projects
14. Course evaluation and Repetition
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Teaching methods |
The course will be taught as a set of
lectures and exercise sessions. The structure and contents of the
lecture is based on the text book by Bocij, Greasley and Hickie
(2008). The theoretical and conceptual contents will be
supplemented with:
• a group project work where students initiate, design and build an
information system (a website) from scratch
• practical exercises to apply and reinforce the presented methods,
technologies, and tools
• supporting online resources and web links on specific technical
topics
• case examples from a wide variety of sectors and countries
• self-assessment questions to test the individual understanding
Use of e-learning:
The course will be taught face-to-face, but the students are
encouraged to use the above described online resources. |
Student workload |
Lectures and Exercises |
56 hours |
Preparation of lectures (incl. reading) |
41 hours |
Project work (website development) |
80 hours |
Preparation for the exam |
30 hours |
Total: |
207 hours |
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Expected literature |
- Paul Bocij, Andrew Greasley, Simon Hickie, Business Information
Systems: Technology, Development and Management, 4th edition,
Pearson Education Limited, UK, 2008
- Charles M. Kozierok: The TCP/IP Guide: A Comprehensive,
Illustrated Internet Protocols Reference, 1st edition Hardcover and
online:
http://www.tcpipguide.com,
No Starch Press, 2005
- Marijn Haverbeke: Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to
Programming, 1st edition, Paperback and online:
http://eloquentjavascript.net,
No Starch Press, 2011
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