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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Understanding Information and Technology Today
In this course we examined the ‘big picture’ of technology, in order to gain a better understanding of what computers can do for us and when we should switch off our computers, smartphones, tablets and wearables.
5 weeks, 2 hours per week
Dr Viktor Dörfler
Course Leader
University of Strathclyde
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Develop a 'big picture' understanding of IS/ICT and its use in organisations
- Evaluate where to put a database and where a knowledge base
- Describe IS/ICT strategy as an aspect of corporate strategy
- Explore basic concepts that you need to communicate with IS/ICT specialists
- Compare variants of cloud-computing
- Compare your experiences of using smart technology
- Discuss the possibilities and consequences of artificial intelligence
Syllabus
- Technology expectations: technology in terms of accepted concepts.
- Technology reality: what technology really looks like today.
- The strange concept of innovation.
- Information Systems: databases and portals.
- What IS/ICT does
- Tools for modelling: exploring two large groups of modelling approaches, the hard and the soft methods.
- IS/ICT design and implementation.
- IS/ICT history: the history of making and using IS/ICT.
- IS/ICT strategy within organisations.
- Cloud computing: types of cloud computing and what the future holds in store.
- Intelligent machines: Artificial Intelligence (AI).
- Smart machines.
Issued on 1st July 2017
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