COURSE SYLLABUS OF EM-TECH

1.0COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course Code: EM-TECH
Course Title: Emerging Technologies for the Developing Country
Description: The Emerging Technologies class is now all about the transformational role of ICT in our developing society, how it affects the different stakeholders and the many challenging issues befaced by the new citizens of today. The course is intended to be an eye-opener on how we use ICT not only in our everyday lives but how we actively create and use good solutions out of it.
Credit Units: 3
Pre-requisite: Pls check your flowchart
Co-requisite: None
Department: Information Technology
Course Adviser: Ms. Mavic Pineda – mavic.pineda@delasalle.ph
Twitter: queenandroid, #emtech
EM-TECH Blog: http://whymanagetech.blogspot.com
Liberty: Use of laptop and Bluetooth enabled mobile phones together with the web is a privilege during group dynamics and experiments that may be held/performed in the classroom.

2.0COURSE OBJECTIVES

The course intends to research and discover new and a variety of tools, technologies and applications mobile, web-based or even personalized on very specialized areas:

a.Get exposure on various ICT/web/mobile and new media technologies;
b.Be resourceful in finding and comparing these different tools & technologies,
c.Be critical and reflect on the use and impact of these technologies,
d.Be mindful on how these can be replicated in the local setting;
e.Create a portfolio of reflections based on the different discovery sessions;


3.0COURSE TOPICS

1.Introduction
Overview of what the direction and vision of the course
Formation of teams/groups

2.Tools for personal environments
3.PROJECT orientation
Special topic: Mapping technologies for various applications
4.Tools for women’s & elderly health
5.Tools for cultural exchange
6.Tools for human psychology
7.Tools for the state HEIs
8.*Special Topic: Data integrity and Privacy Issues
9.Tools for the transportation sector
10.Tools for emergency management
11.Tools for data aggregation
12.Project presentations
13.Project presentations
14.Course feedback and assessment


*Online meetings
**Topic nos. correspond to week nos.

Other topics:
Tools for specialized learning
Tools for analyzing population data
Tools for sociability or social engineering
Tools for security
Tools for measuring performances
Tools for preserving national heritage
Tools for risk management
Tools for entertainment


3. 0 LEARNING STRATEGIES

1.Activity as major course work;
2.Use of short video and/or wikis and/or blogs and relationship simulation tool for presentations;
3.Interactive discussions, insight sharing, research & heavy reading assignments;
4.Participation in a blogs, twitter and online meetings;
5.Development of a well-thought web-based or mobile intercultural collaboration application/solution/tool

6.0 RATING SYSTEM

Group &individual reflections & the wiki portfolio - 50%
Class Exposition on the assigned topic - 15%
Class Activities – participation in group interactions, insight sharing, attendance to seminars, online discussions - 15%

Class Final Project – unique local food tumblr site(content, ingenuity, appetite & insight) - 20%
TOTAL 100%

Attendance to 3 seminars is a requirement.

REFERENCES:

Cottle, S. (2009). Global Crisis Reporting. New York: McGraw Hill.
Call No: P 96 S63 C66 2009.
**Dijk, J. v. (2006). The Network Society. London: Sage Publications.
Call No: P 96 T42 D5513 2006


Bernhardsson, L. and Perneman, J.E. (2011). An intercultural university with hubs, nodes and feeds. (MVP will provide the copy of the paper.)
Bjurstrom, Äse Eliason. Hubs and nodes in a global rhizome; connecting informal, non- formal and formal learning connecting informal, non-formal and formal learning. Retrieved from http://intercultural.ei.hv.se/
O’Reilly, Tim. (Sep 30, 2005). What is web 2.0? O’Reilly Behind the Cover. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html
Pineda, MV (2009). Urban class computing: promising or perilous. Proceedings of the ICICTE 2009 Conference. (MVP will provide the copy of the paper.)
Siemens, G (2004). Connectivisim: A learning theory for the digital age. Retrieved from: http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm
Wenger, W. (2006). Communities of practice a brief introduction. Retrieved from http://www.ewenger.com/theory/

*other reading materials to follow.
**Main course references
Prepared by MVP/may 2011 (Trollhattan.SE)