IS30490 Personal Info Management

Academic Year 2024/2025

Personal Information Management (PIM) is the study of how people organize and manage information in their daily lives, including to-do lists, calendars, email, address books, and file management and social media. This module will focus on PIM activities including acquiring, organising, maintaining, retrieving, and using personal information, as well as major issues in PIM research. It will also explore how an understanding of PIM can be used in practice, in different contexts.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

1. Understand the different perspectives of PIM behaviours and activities.
2. Evaluate the ways in which PIM issues are relevant in different contexts.
3. Define PIM and understand it's history and evolution.
4. Participate in a PIM project and PIM assessment.

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

24
Specified Learning Activities

40
Autonomous Student Learning

38
Total

102
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
lectures, team work, individual project 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Exam (In-person): Final exam End of trimester
Duration:
2 hr(s)
 Graded No

30

 No
Portfolio: PIM activities
workbook		 Week 12 Graded No

20

 No
Report(s): Personal space of information (PSI) Assessment Week 7 Graded No

25

 No
Group Work Assignment: PIM public educational product (PEP) Week 11 Graded No

25

 No

Carry forward of passed components
No
 
Resit In Terminal Exam
Spring Yes - 2 Hour
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Self-assessment activities

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

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