Lecture 0 – About The Unit and Final

Examination

MN501
Compiled By: Assoc Prof. Nalin Sharda
Revised: March 2018
 ENTRY REQUIREMENTS AND
SUBJECT WEIGHTING

• Prerequisites: N/A
• Corequisites: N/A
• Credit Points: 20 credit points
• Level: Year 1, Core
• Workload: Timetabled hours for the trimester: 60 hours
– Lecture = 2 hours/week,
– Laboratory = 2 hours/week,
– Problem Based Learning (PBL) Tutorial = 1 hour/week)
•   Average personal study hours for the trimester: 140 hours
•  (One credit point equates to 10 hours of study load that includes
timetabled hours and personal study time.)

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 2. STAFF
• Unit Moderator: Dr Shaleeza Sohail ssohail@mit.edu.au
• Unit Co-ordinator: A/Prof Nalin Sharda
• Lecturer and Tutor (Melbourne):
– A/Prof Nalin Sharda nsharda@mit.edu.au
• Lecturer and Tutor (Sydney):
– Dr Karthik Nagarajan knagarajan@mit.edu.au

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 BRIEF DESCRIPTION
• This is a core unit out of a total of 6 units in the Graduate
Diploma of Networking (GDNet) and 12 units in the Master of
Networking (MNet) course.
• This unit addresses the GDNet and MNet course learning
outcomes and complements other courses in related fields by
developing students’ specialised knowledge in professional
practice.
• For further course information refer to:
http://www.mit.edu.au/study-with-us/programs/master-
networking,
http://www.mit.edu.au/study-with-us/programs/graduate-diplo
ma-networking
. This unit is part of the AQF Level 8 (GDNet) and level 9 (MNet)
courses.
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 BRIEF DESCRIPTION
• This unit provides students with insights into the professional ethical and
social issues associated with developing and maintaining information and
communication systems. Students will work in a studio-based learning
environment to discuss and understand the application of ethical standards,
legal issues, professional practices and principles applicable in business
environments. Additionally, students are required to participate actively in
weekly classes. This Unit includes the following topics:
– Professionalism and Business
– Managing Yourself, Leaders and Managers
– Professional Communication skills: Research, Writing and Presentation
– Professional Ethics
– Legal, Social and Cultural Issues
– IT Governance: principles, Change and Risk Management
– Teamwork Concepts and Societal Issues

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 OBJECTIVES AND
LEARNING OUTCOMES
At the completion of this unit students should be able to:
• Explain management concepts applied in ICT organisations and
society;
• Apply appropriate business communication, research standards
in writing report and presentations of research;
• Analyse ethical, professional standards and codes of practice to
ICT systems;
• Understand the importance of team work, collaboration and life-
long learning in the workplace;
• Compare good governance principles, processes, organisational
culture, change and risk management.

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 GRADUATE ATTRIBUTES

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 GRADUATE ATTRIBUTES

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 CONTENT
1. Writing Skills
2. Presentation Skills
3. Professional Communication
4. Professional Ethics
5. Professionalism and organisations
6. Managing Yourself, Leaders, Managers
7. Research Skills
8. Legal, Social, Cultural issue and Life-Long Learning (L3)
9. Governance principles
10. Collaboration, Handling group dynamics
11. ICT certifications
12. Revision

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 Week 1: Professionalism and
Business

• Professionals
• Professionalism
• Career Development
• Climbing the Corporate Ladder
• Types of Business Organizations
• Business Structure
Ref: Chapter 1, “A pocket guide to business for engineers and surveyors”, H. E.
Bergeron.
 Week 2: Lecture

Managing Yourself & Leaders and Managers

• Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

• Scheduling Yourself
• Stress management techniques
• Goals, Priorities, and Planning

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 Week 3: Lecture

• Professional Communication
• Communications Model(s)
• Types of Communications
• Forms of Communication
• Formal / organizational and
informal communication

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 Week 4 Lecture

• Professional ethics
• Why Ethics for organisations?
• Ethical issues related to ICT/Engineering
• Importance of professional ethics
• Code of ethics and professional conduct

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 Week 5 Lecture

• WHY WRITE
• WRITING FOR YOUR READERS?
• TEAM WRITING
• GENERATING IDEAS
• EXPANDING YOUR THINKING SKILLS
• RESEARCHING A TOPIC
• THE THESIS STATEMENT
• EDITING GUIDELINES

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 Week 6 Lecture

1. WHAT IS RESEARCH
2. TYPES OF RESEARCH
3. PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION RESEARCH
4. THE RESEARCH PROCESS
5. FORMULATING THE RESEARCH QUESTION
6. SELECTION OF THE METHOD
7. LOCATING INFORMATION
8. ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
9. NETIQUETTE IN RESEARCH
10. WRITING THE RESEARCH REPORT
 Week 7 Lecture
• KNOWING THE AUDIENCE

• SEQUENCE AND CLARITY

• VARYING THE TREATMENT OF THE SUBJECT

• OTHER STRUCTURES FOR ORGANISIN

• DELIVERING THE SPEECH, TALK OR ORAL REPORTG A TALK

• NEGATIVE NON-VERBAL CUES

• POSITIVE NON-VERBAL CUES

• USING THE VOICE - OBAMA THE ORATOR

• VIDEOCONFERENCING

• GROUP/TEAM PRESENTATIONS

• USING AUDIOVISUAL AIDS

• THE QUESTION TIME

• SPEECH FRIGHT
 Week 8 Lecture

• Laws, Constitution and Rules

• Privacy Issues
• Protection of Personal Data
• Developing Information Management Policies
• Intellectual property (IP)
• Social and Cultural Issues
• Life-Long Learning

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 Week 9 Lecture

Good Corporate Management

1. Governance Principles
2. Organisation Culture
3. Change Management
4. Risk Management
5. Conclusion
6. References

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 Week 10 Lecture

Collaboration in Organisations
1. Collaboration Processes
2. Group Dynamics
3. Team Development
4. Groupware
5. Conflict Resolution
6. Lifelong Learning
7. Conclusion
8. References
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 Week 11 Lecture

ICT certifications
1. IT certification
2. Software certifications
3. Hardware certifications
4. AS/NZS 8016 Standard
5. ISO/IEC 38500 Standard
6. References

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 PRESCRIBED BOOKS,
RECOMMENDED BOOKS & ONLINE
RESOURCES
Recommended references:
• H.T. Tavani, Ethics and Technology: Controversies, Questions, and Strategies for Ethical Computing, 4th ed.
Wiley Publishing, 2012
• D. McDermid, Ethics in ICT: An Australian Perspective, 1st ed. Pearson Australia, 2008
Other references:
• H. E. Bergeron, A pocket guide to business for engineers and surveyors, USA: John Wiley and Sons, New Jersey,
2009.
• R. Archee, M. Gurney, and T. Mohan, Communicating As Professionals, 3rd ed. Australia: Cengage Learning,
2013.
• C. Hamilton, Communicating for Results: A guide for business and the professional, 10th ed. Cengage Learning,
2013.
• G. Reynolds, Ethics in Information Technology, 5th ed. Cengage Learning, 2014.
• B. Vanacker and D. Heider, Ethics for Digital Age, Peter Lang Publishing, 2015.
• R. Spinello, Cyberethics – Morality and Law in Cyberspace, 6th ed. Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2016.
• S. Baase, A gift of fire – Social, legal and ethical issues for computers and the Internet: International ed. Pearson,
2013.
• K. Zweig, W. Neuser, V. Pipek, M. Rohde & I. Scholtes, Socioinformatics – The social Impact of Interactions
between Humans and IT, 1st ed. Springer, 2016.
Adopted Reference Style: IEEE
Students are required to purchase the prescribed texts and have them available each week in the class.

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 LEARNING ACTIVITIES

Each student is expected to:

• Attend all scheduled lectures, laboratory classes and tutorials,
and complete all prescribed work by the due date;
• Read all prescribed text references and other material referred
to throughout the course;
• Actively participate via listening in lectures; completing
prescribed course work; identifying areas requiring clarification
and asking questions in classes to gain clarification.
• Consistently apply himself/herself to the course throughout the
semester.

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 ASSESSMENT

Learning
Assessment Task Due Date A B Outcomes
Assessed

Mid-term test (1 Hour) Week 5   10% a-b

Assignment 1 Week 7 10%   a-d

Assignment 2 Week 11 20%   a-h

Laboratory and Problem Based

Week 2-11 10%   a-h
Learning participation & submission

Final Examination (3 Hours)     50% a-h

  Total Marks 40% 60%  

Task Type: Type A: unsupervised, Type B: supervised.

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 ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

It is expected that students must complete all

assessments including Final Examination.
Students must obtain a mark of at least
• 50% in Task A (Assignments, Labs and tutorials)
and
• 40% in the final examination.
• In addition, students must obtain at least 50 %
overall to pass this Unit.

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 ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

Late assignments / exercises:

• Late assignments will be penalised at the rate of 10% per day, that is, an assignment is
marked out of 90% for 1 day late, 80% for 2 days late, etc. and after 5 working days
assignments will attract zero marks.
Special Consideration:
• In the case of serious illness, loss or bereavement, hardship or trauma students may
be granted special consideration.
• A completed Application for Special Consideration (available from the website or
Academic Reception) and supporting documentation must be submitted directly to the
School's Administration Office.
• This application must be submitted no later than three working days after the due
date of the specific piece of assessment or the examination for which the student is
seeking Special Consideration. Further information is available at:
• http://www.mit.edu.au/about-mit/institute-publications/policies-procedures-and-guid
elines/special-considerationdeferment
•  

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 Available Grades

Grade Distribution Table

80% and above
HD
70 – 79%
D
60 – 69%
C
50 – 59%
P
40 – 49%
MN
0-39%
N

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 ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

• It is important to learn from the work of others and students are

encouraged to explore the library, World Wide Web resources
and have discussions with other students. However work for
assessment must be entirely the student's own work.
• Plagiarism can vary from minor lapses in referencing to the use
of someone else’s work or ideas passed on as the student’s own
work without the origin of the material being appropriately
referenced, to serious breaches such as using someone else’s
work as one’s own deliberately, recklessly and/or involving gross
negligence.

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 ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

• Plagiarism—copying or using the work of others without giving

details of the source of information—is not acceptable. All
sources used and any collaboration in the exploratory work for
an assignment must be clearly acknowledged using standard
academic referencing.
• Collusion, that is, secret cooperation between people in order
to deceive others, is unacceptable. Contract Cheating, a form of
collusion which involves employing or passing off work of any
other person as the student’s own work (e.g., paying another
person to write the assignment), is a serious breach of
academic integrity and has heavy penalties.

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 ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

• Students must not allow other students to copy their work

and must take care to safeguard against this happening. In
cases of copying, normally all students involved will be
penalised; an exception will be if a student can demonstrate
the work is his/her own and that the student took reasonable
care to safeguard against copying.
• Academic Misconduct is a serious offence. Depending on the
seriousness of the case, penalties can vary from a written
warning or zero marks to exclusion from the course or
rescinding the degree.
• Students should make themselves familiar with the full policy
and procedure available at: http
://www.mit.edu.au/about-mit/institute-publications/policies-procedures-and-guidelines/Plagiarism-Acade
mic-Misconduct-Policy-Procedure
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 ACADEMIC REGULATIONS

• Students should note that supplementary information

concerning teaching, learning, and assessment may be
provided from time to time. In response to unforeseen
circumstances this may include changes in times or location of
classes, order of the schedule or due dates for assignments.
• Announcement of these matters in classes and placement of
a notice on the officially designated noticeboard shall be
deemed to be official notification.
• Students are advised to acquaint themselves with the
academic regulations regarding progress as outlined in the
MIT Handbook and the MIT website.

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 STUDENT SUPPORT

• It is recommended that students who have life

circumstances or personal limitations that may
affect their course of study should refer to the
list of Student Services contacts on the official
notice board, and to the Special
Consideration policy in the Student
Handbook.

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 STUDENT FEEDBACK

• Students are encouraged to give feedback on each

unit whenever it is offered. This is part of MIT’s
commitment for continuous improvement and such
feedback is valued and acted upon.
• Topics on ICT certifications and CBOK knowledge
areas are added to map ACS Core Body of
Knowledge (CBOK) areas.

• Updated November 2017 By Nalin Sharda

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 Web References
Acknowledgement: Text in some of the lecture notes is taken almost verbatim from the
following references:
1. Collaboration in the Workplace: What Does it Actually Mean?, Sarah Maynard, Accessed 14 September 2017,
https://www.smartdraw.com/mind-map/collaboration.htm

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