| Learning objectives |
To achieve the grade 12, students should meet the
following learning objectives with no or only minor mistakes or
errors:
- Identify and describe a relevant problem in relation to the
general objective of the EBUSS programme.
- Reflect on methodology, including choice of theory/technique,
empirical analysis method, to give an account of the balance
between data, theory, analysis strategy, validity, reliability,
pre-understandings/biases, delimitations, etc
- Make a disciplined analysis of theory and/or empirical data
(qualitative and/or quantitative).
- Describe a clear connection between problem formulation
(research question), analysis, and conclusion.
- Put the project into perspective and make a process
description.
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| Course prerequisites |
| Contact and agreement with a EBUSS supervisor,
approved project agreement containing research question/problem
description as well as methods intended to be used in the
project. |
| Prerequisites for registering for the
exam |
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Number of mandatory
activities: 1
Compulsory assignments
(assessed approved/not approved)
The Mandatory assignment is a portfolio that explicitly relates
the three E-Business projects in technology, business, and
policy/law together for the individual students, and explains how
the current project fits into the students project portfolio, and
the student’s e-buss profile. The mandatory assignment is
individual and is 1-3 pages.
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| Examination |
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E-Business
Project, Policy Law:
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| Exam
ECTS |
7,5 |
| Examination form |
Oral exam based on written product
In order to participate in the oral exam, the written product
must be handed in before the oral exam; by the set deadline. The
grade is based on an overall assessment of the written product and
the individual oral performance. |
| Individual or group exam |
Individual oral exam based on written group
product |
| Number of people in the group |
2-4 |
| Size of written product |
Max. 15 pages |
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Appendices can be added, max. 50 pages, +
additional material (video recordings, audio etc.) on a memory
stick or similar. The report must be readable without the
appendices |
| Assignment type |
Project |
| Duration |
Written product to be submitted on specified date and
time.
20 min. per student, including examiners' discussion of grade,
and informing plus explaining the grade |
| Grading scale |
7-step scale |
| Examiner(s) |
Internal examiner and external examiner |
| Exam period |
Winter and Spring |
| Make-up exam/re-exam |
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
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Description of the exam
procedure
Every project needs to have a project agreement that includes a
project description as well as an EBUSS supervisor.
The project agreement must state:
- an EBUSS topic area/field chosen by the student
(B, T, P).
- a name and email of a supervisor who has
explicitly agreed to supervise the students
- a specific (empirical or theoretical) area or
phenomenon of research
- a motivation for choosing the area/field, e.g.
grounded in literature
- a research question
- an overview of the methods that are deemed
appropriate to answer the specific research question
If the final project departs from the description in the
original project agreement, the reason for this must be accounted
for in a short section in the project report.
The project agreement must always be approved by the acting project
coordinator who acts on behalf of the study board.
Contact the supervisor/s personally (and early in the process) and
make sure that you have an explicit acceptance before you invite
a supervisor. It is highly advisable that students plan
all supervision meetings early in the contact with the supervisor,
due to time constraints.
The project must be handed in with the official EBUSS front
matter.
The examination is an individual, oral exam based on a written
group project. 20 minutes are allocated to each student. This
includes deliberations between examiner and external examiner as
well as feedback and change over. The exam typically begins with a
short presentation by the student (3-5 minutes). The student can
bring any kind of
releva
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| Course content and structure |
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The overall purpose of the project activities in the M.Sc in
E-business is to work with a problem chosen by the student him- or
herself, which falls under the general objective of the programme
and provides the student with basis for progress towards the thesis
work.
The project activities thus provide an opportunity to prepare
for the master thesis. Furthermore, the idea behind the 22,5 ECTS
EBUSS projects is to use them in a cumulative way, so that the
student may form a business idea in the first project, plan how to
carry it out in the second project, and execute the plan in the
third project.
It is important that the project activities during the
2nd and/or 3rd semester are used for information
retrieval and the identification of the thesis subject.
The policy/law discipline (covered by P-courses, policy/law
courses and projects) covers international and national IT
relations and legislation.
The objective of the teaching activities in the P-courses is that
the student develops a basis for assessing and designing business
IT in accordance with the law (and, if possible, develop that) and
adapting business IT to organisation and society policies within
the IT area.
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| Teaching methods |
| Supervision by EBUSS supervisor |
| Student workload |
| project |
200 hours |
| exam |
6 hours |
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| Expected literature |
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Use the library databases. 700 normal pages of literature
relevant to the topic.
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