Green Technology Strategies
ACS25
Overview
To enrol in this unit, you must be accepted into a course from the provider.
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Level of study: What does Professional mean?
Professional
Delivery Method: What does delivery method mean?
Fully Online
Prerequisites: What are the prerequisites?
Duration:
14 weeks
Government loans available:
NoneDomestic student fee:
$1,500.00 (AUD)
International student fee:
$1,725.00 (AUD)
Description
The unit is offered in response to an explosion of interest in climate change and sustainability, including a growing realisation of the high contribution of ICT. This unit investigates the contribution of ICT to carbon emissions and how technology can reduce those emissions. The topics are drawn from practices being developed in the public and private sectors internationally. Green Technology Strategies (Green IT or Green Computing
Enrolment Restriction
In order to enrol in this unit, you must be accepted into one of the following courses:
If you wish to seek approval to enrol in this unit without being accepted in a course, please contact OUA regarding the process.
Prerequisites
Recommended prerequisites
You are recommended to have completed the following unit(s) or have equivalent knowledge before starting this unit:
- ACS11 — Business, Legal & Ethical Issues
If you are completing this unit as a standalone unit (i.e. not part of the Computer Professional Education Program), you can waive the prerequisite..
Learning Outcomes
At the completion of this unit students will be able to:
- influence organisation, customers, suppliers and peers within industry on contribution of specialisation
- work in a challenging range and variety of complex technical or professional work activities; work requires application of fundamental principles in a wide and often unpredictable range of contexts
- understand relationship between specialism and wider customer/organisational requirements
- advise on the available standards, methods, tools and applications in own area of specialisation and can make correct choices from alternatives
- communicate effectively, formally and informally, with colleagues, subordinates and customers
- have a clear understanding of the relationship between own area of responsibility/specialisation to the employing organisation and takes customer requirements into account when making proposals
- takes initiative to keep skills up to date
- maintains awareness of developments in the industry
- demonstrates creativity and innovation in applying solutions for the benefit of the user
- maintain knowledge of specific technical specialisms
- provide detailed advice regarding their application, executes specialised tasks.
Topics
This unit addresses the following topics.
| Number | Topic |
|---|---|
| 1 | Politics, Science and Business of Sustainability |
| 2 | Introduction to Green ICT Strategies |
| 3 | The Global ICT Footprint |
| 4 | Enabling ICT: Dematerialisation, smart motor systems, logistics, buildings and grids |
| 5 | Technical strategy and planning - Emerging technology monitoring |
| 6 | Energy saving - Data Centres and Client Equipment |
| 7 | Materials Use |
| 8 | Methods and tools |
| 9 | Business/IS strategy and planning |
| 10 | Business process improvement |
| 11 | Improving Data Centre Energy Efficiency |
| 12 | Enterprise Architecture |
| 13 | Procurement & management support |
| 14 | Energy Star Program and Quality Management |
| 15 | Compliance audit |
Study Resources
Each unit offered through OUA provides students with unit information that includes assessment topics and due dates, policy information and contact numbers for university support and academic staff. Study materials will also clearly outline each week's topic, readings, student activities and the format of all assessment.
Textbook information for this unit is currently being updated and will be available soon. Please check back regularly for updates. Alternatively, visit the Unibooks website and enter the unit details to search for available textbooks.
Relevant Courses
This unit is an approved elective in the following courses:
This unit may be eligible for credit towards other courses:
- Many undergraduate courses on offer through OUA include 'open elective' where any OUA unit can be credited to the course. You need to check the Award Requirements on the course page for the number of allowed open electives and any level limitations.
- In other cases, the content of this unit might be relevant to a course on offer through OUA or elsewhere. In order to receive credit for this unit in the course you will need to supply the provider institution with a copy of the Unit Profile in the approved format, which you can download here. Note that the Unit Profile is set at the start of the year, and if textbooks change this may not match the Unibooks textbook list.
