Assignment Brief Academic Year 2018-19

Module Code and MG413 Module Leader: Festus Louis

Title:
Data insights
Assignment No. CW2-Presentation Assessment 30%
and Type: Weighting:
Submission Date: Presentation :Monday 20th Target Feedback 3rd June 2019
May Tuesday May 21st BB Date:
Document submission
14.00

Assignment Task
Prepare and deliver a 10 minute presentation on the role of information and data within your Industry or
profession sector :
This should cover the following tasks:
1. Set out what digital disruption is
2. Set out how this will impact on the sector represented by your degree with emphasis on the role of
data as a business tool
3. Define what this means in terms of types of jobs within the sector and the skills that will be
required to build a successful career within it
4. Write an online research questionnaire to be sent to an industry professional researching 1-3
5. Write a discussion guide for use in a face to face interview with an industry professional
researching 1-3
6. Test the questionnaire and discussion guide on a member of an industry professional and
present if and how the research technique worked effectively, and what if any, corrections you
would have made to have made it more effective .
7. Both 4 and 5 should be on the subject of awareness of digital disruption and that person’s
perception of it and its impact on their job and career

This assignment has been designed to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your
achievement of the following module learning outcomes:
LO 2
Plan, implement and critique a programme of research.
LO 3
Apply various analytical tools and techniques to gain insight into a specific research issues

Quality Assurance Record

Internal approval: Name, date
External approval: Name, date
 Task requirements
 This is a group presentation.
 Please keep a record of group work meetings, including attendance and work allocation v work
done to the required standard. This should be submitted with the final report and slides. Use
Google Docs to do this.
 Presentations will take place in a pre-arranged time-slot during normal tuition hours for this
module. Failure to attend or failure to be punctual (without good reason) will be treated as a non-
submission.
 Presentations will be timed
 You will receive verbal feedback immediately after your presentation so you may want to have a
pen and paper to hand to record some of this feedback
 You should use this feedback to make alteration to your final BB submission
 You will NOT be provided with your grade at this time but via blackboard within a three week
period.

Referencing and research requirements

Please reference your work according to the Harvard style as defined in Cite Them Right Online
(http://www.citethemrightonline.com). This information is also available in book form: Pears, R. and
Shields, G. (2016) Cite them right: the essential reference guide. 10th edn. Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan. Copies are available via the university library.
You are expected to provide at least three references to support your presentation.

How your work will be assessed

Your work will be assessed on the extent to which it demonstrates your achievement of the stated
learning outcomes for this assignment (see above) and against other key criteria, as defined in the
University’s institutional grading descriptors. This assignment will be marked according to the grading
descriptors for Level 4.
This being a group presentation you will be receiving a mark for the performance of the group (this mostly
relates to the structure and the content of your presentation).

Each member of the group will be questioned on the section of the presentation they have given.
Individual marks will be adjusted based upon whether their individual contribution of the knowledge and
understanding of their task and its link to whole project is appropriate for this level of study.

Submission details

This assignment should be submitted electronically.

Please use the relevant Turnitin submission point in the Submit your work area in your Blackboard
module shell.
 Please ensure that your work has been saved in an appropriate file format. Turnitin will only accept the
following file types: Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint, PostScript, PDF, HTML, RTF, OpenOffice
(ODT), Hangul (HWP), Google Docs, or plain text. Your file must also contain at least 20 words of text,
consist of fewer than 400 pages and be less than 40MB in size.
 You can submit your work as many times as you like before the submission date. If you do submit your
work more than once, your earlier submission will be replaced by the most recent version.
 Once you have submitted your work, you will receive a digital receipt as proof of submission, which will
be sent to your forwarded e-mail address (provided you have set this up). Please keep this receipt for
future reference, along with the original electronic copy of your assignment.

 You are reminded of the University’s regulations on academic misconduct, which can be viewed
on the University website: https://bucks.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0024/9546/Academic-
Misconduct-Policy.pdf. In submitting your assignment, you are acknowledging that you have read
and understood these regulations.

Submission date and time

This assignment should be submitted before 14:00 UK time on the set date of submission.
Work that is submitted up to 10 working days beyond the submission date will be accepted as a late
submission. Late submissions will be marked and the actual mark recorded, but will be capped at the
pass mark (typically 40%), provided that the work is of a passing standard. Work submitted after this
period will not be marked and will be treated as a non-submission.
Feedback and marks for this assignment will be available three weeks after the day of the presentation.