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IS40930

Academic Year 2021/2022

Personal Info Management (IS40930)

Subject:
Information Studies
College:
Social Sciences & Law
School:
Information & Comms Studies
Level:
4 (Masters)
Credits:
5
Module Coordinator:
Assoc Professor Amber Cushing
Trimester:
Spring
Mode of Delivery:
On Campus
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

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.

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

1. Understand and apply the main PIM activities as well as associated meta-level activities including acquire, organise, maintain, retrieve, use.
2. Evaluate the ways in which PIM issues are relevant in different contexts.
3. Define PIM and understand it's history and evolution.
4. Develop a PIM project.

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

20
Specified Learning Activities

50
Autonomous Student Learning

40
Total

110

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Lectures; Active & Task-Based learning; Reflective Writing, Crtiical writing.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Essay: PIM self assessment Coursework (End of Trimester) n/a Graded No
35
 No
Essay: self reflection Coursework (End of Trimester) n/a Graded No
15
 No
Group Project: group presentation Week 12 n/a Graded No
45
 No
Multiple Choice Questionnaire (Short): self-reflection for learning goals Week 1 n/a Pass/Fail Grade Scale No
5
 Yes

Carry forward of passed components
No
 

Resit In Terminal Exam
Summer No
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

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

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