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							Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE
Semester: 1             Year: 2011-2012        Campus: IEN Fuzhou
Course Name: Information Management
Course Code: AMFP104
Teacher’s Name: Musa Manning
Starting Date for this module: 29/8/2011
E-mail Address: mmanning_@hotmail.com


                                   DESCRIPTION OF WORK/TOPIC
WEEK BEGINNING
                             MODULE 1 Introduction and overview of
                              knowledge and information management
                             Information Society
Week 1                       Information Economy:
                             Information age
                             Data
                             Information
                             Homework student to define:
                              Information Management
Aug 29                       Knowledge Management
                             Information Systems
Sept 2                       Information Technology.
                             Read text up to page 27 of Chaffey and Wood
                              (2004) Business Information Management
                             Introduction and overview of knowledge and
                              information management
                             Knowledge
Week 2                       Technology Resources
                             People Resources
                             Adaptation of Activity 1.1 page 18 of Chaffey and
                              Wood (2004) Business Information Management.
                             Review Questions.
                             Discussion questions
Sep 5 -9                     See Figure 1.3 of page 17 of the text for the
                              framework to answer this question
                             See Figure 1.8 of the text for a summary of the
                              ways information is used to manage corporate
                              performance

                         MODULE 2 SECONDARY RESEARCH
                         METHODOLOGIES
                           Consider and prepare your approach to
Week 3                      research
                           Searching for information
                           Secondary research options
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                    Published statistics:
                    Published texts:
                    Media:
                    Starting a research project.
                    Encyclopedias
Sep 12 -16          Reference books
                    Review articles
                    textbooks
                    journals
                    Books
                    Journal articles
                    Internet
                    Library catalogues
                    Databases may have different limitations
                    Reading a reference
                    How to develop your search terms
                    Computer Lab.
Week 4              Researching online
                    Microsoft Word 2007 Basic Features
Sep 19 - 23         Microsoft PowerPoint’s 2007 Basic Features
                    Microsoft Excel 2007
                    Computer Lab.
Week 5              Researching online
                    Microsoft Word 2007 Basic Features
Sep 26- 30          Microsoft PowerPoint’s 2007 Basic Features
                    Microsoft Excel 2007

Week 6
              National Holidays
Oct 3 - 7
              MODULE THREE INFORMATION QUALITY
                 Introduction
                 Defining information quality
Week 7           Knowledge quality
                 Data quality
Oct 8 - 14       The DIKAR and RAPID model.
                 REVIEW QUESTIONS
              MODULE FOUR INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL AND
              KNOWLEDGE BASED ASSETS
Week 8           Intellectual , Social And Technological Capital
                 Performance Economics (intellectual capital)
Oct 17 - 21      Behaviour (social capital)
                 Technology (technological capital)
                 Group Activity
                 Introduction to Intellectual Capital
                 Research exercise:
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              MODULE FIVE KNOWLEDGE PERSPECTIVES
                 Introduction
Week 9           Knowledge Audits
                 Knowledge Audit Process
                 One Strategy Option: Communities of Practice
                 Getting started with knowledge management
                 Making Knowledge Visible
                 Building knowledge Intensity
Oct 24 - 28      Build knowledge Infrastructure
                 Developing Knowledge Culture
                 View about knowledge management in the
                  organisation

                    Review Questions

              MODULE SIX       A:   INFORMATION    MANAGEMENT
              SOFTWARE
                    The main categories of software Applications
Week 10              software.
                    Systems software
                    Selecting software and criteria
                    Open source software
                    Advantages / disadvantage of open-source
                     software
Oct 31              Make, buy or rent?
                    Considering the alternatives
Nov 4               E-Business and E-Commerce
                    Internet, intranets and extranets
                    Intranet applications
                    Extranet applications
                    Customer Relationship Management
                    The elements of Customer Relationship
                     Management applications.
                    Review Exercises
                    B: KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
                     SOFTWARE
                    Decision Support System (DSS)
                    Data-Driven DSS
                    Document-Driven DSS
                    Knowledge-Driven DSS
                    Model-Driven DSS
                    Spreadsheet-based DSS
                    Web-based DSS
                    Scope of DSS
                    Enterprise-wide DSS
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                  Desktop DSS
                  A Management Information System (M.I.S.):
                  Benefits of Management Information Systems
                   to the organisation?
                 Home study:
              Review Exercises
              MODULE SEVEN KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
              SYSTEMS.
Week 11          Knowledge Architecture
                 The process of transferring knowledge.
                 Knowledge structures
                 Group work
Nov 7 - 11       Who is involved in Knowledge Architecture?
                 What do all these people do?

              MODULE EIGHT INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
                  Information architecture
                  What is needed to build information architecture?
                  Information flow diagrams
Week 12           Data Flow diagrams
                  Entity relationship diagrams
                  UML
                  Interoperability
                  Security Analysis
                  Web design
Nov 14 - 18       Web blueprint
                  Wireframes
                  Designing for Interoperability
                  Usability
                  Security Design
                  Logical / Physical security design
              Review Exercises

              MODULE NINE INTERNET TECHNOLOGY AND
              OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY ISSUES.
                 Reminder of Assessment Tasks
Week 13          Intranet
                 OH&S issues
                 Victorian OHS Compliance Framework
                  handbook (PDF 162kb)
                 Benefits of Notebook Technology
                 Working Safely with Notebooks
Nov 21 - 25      Hazards
                 Tripping hazards
                 Manual Handling
                 Lighting Vision and Eye fatigue
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                   Safety precautions in the School
                   Safety Precautions in the Home
                   Safety Precautions in Transit


              MODULE TEN THE INFORMATION ECONOMY
                  An Organisational strategy
                  Why is an information management strategy
                   needed?
Week 14          The relationship between strategies for
                   information management.
                 The information management strategy
                 Key information management strategy themes
Nov 28             and approaches
                 Information resource analysis
                 Information Mapping.
                 Information Policy
Dec 2            Managing Risk
              Module 10 Review Questions
              MODULE ELEVEN LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES
                   Intellectual property
                   What do IP laws actually do?
                   IP administration of laws
Week 15            How can we use IP?
                   Copyright 1
Dec 5 - 9          COPYRIGHT DOES NOT PROTECT IDEAS –
                    ONLY EXPRESSIONS OF IDEAS
                   Copyright 2
                   Copyright 3
                   Copyright example 4
                   Copyright example 5
                   Impact on organizations
                   Impact on Information Management Staff
                   What is Plagiarism?

Week 16       Group Oral Presentation is due 20%

Dec 12 - 16
              Group Oral Presentation is due 20%
Week 17       1000 Words Report is due 30%

Dec 19 - 23   Basic words, Excel, PowerPoint Practical Tasks
              (Tests Fail or Pass) incorporation with
              assessments 1 and 2.



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                     MODULE TWELVE DATA PROTECTION AND PRIVACY
Week 18
                           Ethics in information management
Dec 26 - 30                Internet governance issues:
                           Privacy and data protection legislation
                           Don't Leave Privacy to Chance... Take Steps to
                            Protect Personal Information
                           Steps for organisations and agencies.
                           Module 12 Review Questions

                        Revision
Week 19              Final Examination 50%
Jan 3 - 7
Week 20              Re-Sit
Jan 10 - 14

Assessments:

      Group Oral Presentation: 20% ( Dec 12-23 )
      1000 Words Report is due：30%              ( Dec 19-23 )
      Practical Tasks Tests Fail or Pass ( Dec 19-23 )
      Final Examination: 50% ( Jan 3 -7)
      Re-Sit (Jan 10-14)




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