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Internet Collaboration and Innovation
Postgraduate | CUR-MIC507 | 2022
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Explore how technological change and social adoption go hand-in-hand. Find pathways to increased virtual collaboration between organisations. Bridge your online connectivity by studying opportunities for innovation in the private and public sectors.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
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Internet Collaboration and Innovation
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- explain how organisations work in terms of their structures, exchanges and decision making
- analyse the way that networked information and communications technologies influence and in turn are influenced by the organisations within which they are used
- demonstrate understanding of the role of virtual collaboration within organisations
- apply conceptual understandings of the social foundations of technological change to virtual and networked organisation
- demonstrate a critically advanced understanding of the use of the Internet for collaboration and organisation
- demonstrate an appropriate understanding of academic integrity principles and apply academic writing, referencing and acknowledgement conventions required for the discipline.
- Introduction to online collaboration & innovation
- Theories of online collaboration & innovation
- Intro: Organisations, Movements and Crowds
- Organisations
- Movements
- Crowds
- Case Study Links
- Essay writing and re-drafting
- Technological Determinism
- SCOT
- Actor Network Theory (ANT)
- Conclusions
Internet-based collaboration and innovation is the focus of this subject, recognising that networked computing has had a significant impact on both the public and private sectors. Increasingly, the Internet is reshaping the way we relate to, and collaborate with, others. This can happen in formal organised settings such as the workplace, and also increasingly in less formal settings, from collective movements to crowds of strangers. In this subject you will learn how and why the Internet can be used to promote collaboration, how these processes are driven and how they can be used and optimised in a given setting. As a result you will become more effective in participating in and managing collaborative processes involving the Internet.
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- Collaborative resource development (30%)
- Essay 1 (30%)
- Essay 2 (40%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Elective
- OUA-PSU-GCE-2022 - Postgraduate Single Subjects
- CUR-MIC-GCE-2022 - Graduate Certificate in Digital and Social Media
- CUR-MIC-MAS-2022 - Master of Digital and Social Media
- CUR-MIC-GDI-2022 - Graduate Diploma in Digital and Social Media
- UNE-PRO-GCE-2022 - Graduate Certificate in Professional Practice
Equivalent subjects
You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
PostgraduateOUA-PSU-GCE
PostgraduateCUR-MIC-GCE
PostgraduateCUR-MIC-MAS
PostgraduateCUR-MIC-GDI
PostgraduateUNE-PRO-GCE