This module is designed to provide intermediate conceptual and practical learning to students in operations management, marketing and human resource management. The module comprises 16 study weeks (including final assessment).
A. Knowledge and understanding
At the end of the module, learners will be expected to:
B. Cognitive skills
At the end of the module learners will be expected to:
C. Practical and professional skills
D. Key transferable skills
This module is designed to provide intermediate conceptual and practical learning to students in management and accounting. The module comprises 16 study weeks (including final assessment).
The primary objective is to give the student an understanding of basic business principles. Global business, entrepreneurship, management, marketing, information technology, and financial management will be discussed. Another purpose of this course is to build a foundation of knowledge on the different theoretical approaches to management and decision making • develop analytical skills to identify the links between the functional areas in management, organisations, management practices and the business environment.
Learning Objectives: Upon completion of the course students will have a firm understanding of the following business topics:
A. Knowledge and understanding
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The aims of the art and design in context are:
A. Knowledge and understanding
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This course is aimed at the students who wish to complete the Arab Open University's degree in Graphic and Multimedia Design program. The purpose of this course is related to its two academic sub components: semiotics and applied media aesthetics as well as general design culture. In the first part the aim is to introduce students to the formal elements of semiotics through composition and structure. In this course students develop a language to help them articulate what films, photographs, or advertisements look like, what formal or stylistic choices were made in their production, and what distinguishes one media artifact from another. This part of the course describes the fundamental aesthetic elements of applied media aesthetics such as, light and color, two-dimensional space, three-dimensional space, time-motion, sound, and how they can serve as basic criteria for analysis of video and film. It also explains how these elements can be structured and applied to produce maximally effective visual and sound images in video and film. By placing these essential image elements into their particular contextual fields, their interdependence and structural potential in aesthetic synthesis, the clarification, interpretation, and communication of significant experiences are made clear.
This part of the course will enable the students to:
General Design Culture:
Studying the design process develop the convergence of diverse skills as well as the theoretical knowledge, which are necessary for reaching the right outcomes for any given design project. This module covers the design process' different layers: research, decoding, encoding, narrative, content development, experimentation and concept driven outcomes. Every area is explored both horizontally and vertically with a main focus on the transitions between the steps linking those areas.
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M811-part A aims to provide the skills and knowledge necessary to develop and run a practical information security management system, in accordance with current international standards. In particular, it aims to:
Additionally, M811 aims to
M811-part B aims to provide the skills and knowledge necessary to develop and run a practical information security management system, in accordance with current international standards. In particular, it aims to:
Additionally, M811 aims to:
M813-Part A is the first part of the M813 course, a core module of the MSc award in Computing/ software development.
M813 aims to provide the skills and knowledge necessary to develop software in accordance with current professional practice, approaches and techniques.
In particular, it aims to:
This course is a pre-requisite to the M813-part B where the focus is on the testing, software architectures and system integration.
At the end of the module, learners will be expected to have the knowledge and understanding of the following:
M813-Part B is the second part of the M813 course, a core module of the MSc award in Computing / software development.
At the end of the module, learners will be expected to have the knowledge and understanding of the:
M814-Part A is the first part of the M814 course, a core module of the MSc award in Computing/ software development. M813 aims to provide students with a holistic perspective of technical and non-technical factors involved in developing useful and safe software systems in complex social and organisational contexts. In particular it aims to:
M814-Part B is the second part of the M814 course, a core module of the MSc award in Computing/ software development. M813 aims to provide students with a holistic perspective of technical and non-technical factors involved in developing useful and safe software systems in complex social and organisational contexts. In particular it aims to:
This main aim of this module is to introduce students to the basic concepts of Project Management methods and techniques across the standard and extended lifecycle. Students will be taught about various project concepts and definitions. Emphasis will be placed on
This main aim of this module is to develop effective professional project management practitioners through rigorous teaching of Project Management methods and techniques across the standard and extended lifecycle. Students will be taught how to analyse data and situations, select appropriate techniques and apply them in a technological project management context. Emphasis will be placed on
M816 (A & B) aims to provide the skills and knowledge necessary to develop data management policies, procedures and systems in accordance with current professional practice, approaches and techniques.
M816 (A & B) aims to provide the skills and knowledge necessary to develop data management policies, procedures and systems in accordance with current professional practice, approaches and techniques.
After completing the course, the student will be able to:
A. Knowledge and understanding
Students will be able to:
After completing the module, you should be able to:
Having studied this course you will:
A. Knowledge and understanding
Use the learning Management System (LMS) effectively to improve own learning performance.
The aims of the course in context are:
This course provides a thorough overview of the interface, tools, features, and production flow for using Premiere Pro. The course is an ideal combination of instructor-led demonstration and hands-on practice for getting to know this revolutionary nonlinear video-editing application.
The course focuses on the basic editing functions while familiarizing the students with the user interface. It also allows them to use Premiere Pro's powerful real-time video and audio editing tools to give them precise control over virtually every aspect of the production.
The second part of the course is full hands-on practice of Adobe after effects which would allow the students to deliver cinematic, visual effects and motion graphics faster than ever before with new Global Performance Cache, extend their creativity with built-in text and shape extrusion, new mask feathering options, and get into motion graphics.
Adobe Premiere pro
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This Module discovers the concepts and technologies for the state of art topics: Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Cloud Computing. It identify a comprehensive and systematic understanding to the latest SOA and Cloud Computing technologies. Moreover, it examine practical experience in designing large-scale composite web service applications.
After finishing successfully this Module you should be able to:
Upon completing this Module, students will be able to have:
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The aims of this module are to:
A. Knowledge and understanding
On successful completion of this course, the student will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
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The aims and objectives of this module are to:
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Upon completing this module, students should be able to:
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The aim of T802 is to enable students to carry out a significant piece of research in the subject area of their degree, and to write up the research and conclusions in a formal dissertation. The research will have professional relevance, but may or may not be directly associated with a company or other organization.
In the process of following the module, students will:
Students will learn how to develop a research proposal; carry out a literature search and write a critical review of the literature; select suitable research methods and integrate them within a research methodology; carry out research processes; analyze results to draw conclusions; and write up their research in the form of a dissertation. The students' research work will be related to their individual pathway of study (i.e. either the Software Development pathway or the Information Security and Forensics pathway).
The T828 (parts A and B) module aims to give students a holistic understanding of the fundamentals of network security together with the skills required by a network security professional. In particular, it aims to:
Enable students to have significant hands-on interaction with IT equipment to prepare them for certification exams and career opportunities
Once you have completed your study of this module, you will have knowledge and understanding of:
Once you have completed your study of this module, you will have the ability to:
Once you have completed your study of this module, you will have the professional skills to:
Once you have completed your study of this module, you will also be able to:
The T828 (parts A and B) module aims to give students a holistic understanding of the fundamentals of network security together with the skills required by a network security professional. In particular, it aims to:
To emphasize on the concept of computer organization.
To emphasize on the concept computer architecture.
To comprehend the different core concepts behind the hardware layer of a computer system.
To recognize the mathematical concepts of the low level computer structure (circuits and gates).
To know the processor's instruction sets architecture and implementation.
To recognize the memory organization concept and methods
The module provides student with an understanding of:
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After studying the module, the student should be able to:
D Key transferable skills
Upon completing this module, student should be able to:
The module aims to: increase students awareness of the ethical, professional and legal issues of IT and computing and the responsible use of ITC.
Upon the successful completion of this module students will be able to:
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Aspects of business that were once seen in isolation – the people, organisation, process, information and technology – are now expected to operate as part of a seamless whole, both within and across enterprises. Information systems managers are responsible for delivering this seamless integration efficiency. This module aims to:
1. Explain basic concepts for IT/IS management
2. Discuss organizational, business and strategic issues surrounding IT/IS, and
3. Analyse and evaluate uses of strategic IT/IS in practice.
This module aims to introduce students to the software development process in general with emphasis on the software modelling and analysis phase. The unified modelling language is used throughout the module to illustrate the different models.
The aims of this module are to illustrate methods for handling and compressing different kinds of data, such as text, images, audio and video data and show data compression techniques for multimedia and other applications, especially the once used in the Internet.
This module aims to address some of the key concepts required for the traditionally important area of data management, and the increasingly important area of data analytics. The module will compare traditional relational databases with an alternate model (a NoSQL database), and will enable students to choose between the alternatives to select an appropriate means of storing and managing data, depending on the size and structure of a particular dataset and the use to which that data will be put. Students will be introduced to preliminary techniques in data analysis, starting from the position that data is used to answer a question, and introduced to a range of data visualisation and visual analysis techniques that will instil an understanding of how to start exploring a new data set.
To ensure that students are comfortable with handling datasets, they will explore a range of openly licensed real-world datasets (either downloaded from their host websites, or provided as snapshots) to illustrate the key concepts in the course. Sources such as data.gov.uk, the World Bank, and a range of other national and international agencies will be used to provide appropriate data. The module will aim to divide approximately equally between issues in data management (technical and socio-legal issues in storing and maintaining datasets), and issues in data analytics (using data to answer questions). Students are not expected to have a background in statistics, but should be comfortable working with mathematical concepts and will need to be competent programmers.
The module will be framed around a narrative that looks at how to manage and extract value and insight from a range of increasingly large data collections. At each stage, a comparison will be drawn between different ways of representing the data (for example, using different sorts of charts or geographical mapping techniques), and limitations of the mechanisms presented. To enable students to get a feel for the use of data, each stage will also include an overview of some data analysis techniques, including summary reporting and exploratory data visualisation. The module will be driven by Richard Hamming's famous quote: The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
Some of the key ideas are:
Concepts in data analytics. These sections will focus on using data to answer a real question; the focus will be on exploratory techniques (such as visualisation) and formulating a question into a form which can realistically be answered using the data that is available. Issues in processing techniques for large and real-time streamed data collections will also be addressed along with techniques and technologies (such as mapreduce) for handling them. This part will use a statistical package such as the python scientific libraries and/or ggplot to visualise the data and carry out appropriate analyses. It is not anticipated that students will need to understand statistical methods in depth.
Upon completing this course, students will be able to:
Communicate the results of data analysis to stakeholders at appropriate level
Knowledge and understanding of:
TM355 is framed fairly precisely by its areas of interest: layers 1 and 2 of the OSI seven-layer model, that is the Physical Layer (layer 1) and the Data Link Layer (layer 2); and the three access technologies of optical fibre, DSL broadband and wireless.
Within this framing, TM355 is concerned to reveal and explore commonalities that cut across these technologies, such as Shannon's law, multiple access (which increasingly means orthogonal frequency division multiple access, or OFDMA), modulation techniques (in the digital world, almost synonymous with quadrature amplitude modulation, or QAM), error detection and correction, and coding. A thorough understanding of the principles of these common technologies will equip students to understand a range of communication technologies, and to understand their potential and limitations
The student will learn the value of moving away from his/her desk and 'stepping out into the world' to involve potential users in his/her early design ideas for interactive products. It is all too easy to assume that other people think, feel and behave in the same way as the designer or developer, do. It is essential to take into account the diversity among users and their different perspectives and getting their feedback will help to avoid any errors and misunderstandings that may not have thought of. Involving users in the process is vital to creating great products and makes good business sense.
Through hands-on activities the student will work through the design process on a topic chosen by himself/herself (with tutor's guidance). The student will develop skills that will be important to him/her in a variety of employment settings – whether working as a developer as part of a large software development team, as a partner in a small start-up, or in some other role involved in the managing of, or decision making around interactive products that will be used by people
After studying the module students will have knowledge and understanding of:
After studying the module students will be able to:
To provide the students with an understanding of the fundamental concepts involved in natural and artificial intelligence (ASO, PSO, neural networks, evolutionary computing, robotics and genetic computing).
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The module aims to provide an understanding of e-business and its associated technologies. The basics of online commerce will be introduced along with the elements that are particular to an electronic marketplace.
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On completion of the module students will be able to:
On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
A. Knowledge and understanding
D. Key transferable skills
On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
After studying the course, the student will be able to: