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COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

Course Learning Objectives

CONTENT

Methodology

ASSESSMENT

Assessment criteria

The final grade for the course will be based on class participation, mid-term and final exams, and team activities. For each session, students are expected to come prepared for the class. Class attendance is compulsory. Non-attendance can only be justified by program management. The schema for the final grade is as follows:
Individual participation: 15%
Individual mid-term exam: 25%
Teamwork: 30%
Final exam (individual): 30%


To pass the course students must obtain a minimum mark of 4 out of 10 on the mid-term exam and the final exam. The teamwork will involve two graded activities (explained below).

Team activity 1: Debating a topic
We cannot separate the proliferation of new digital business models from certain topics around the ownership and governance of data and the evolution of digital technologies. The purpose of this activity is that students (in teams) prepare and present a topic -for instance, net neutrality, blockchain, personal data banks, data privacy, etc. Each team will be assigned a topic and given some essays written by leaders on the fields of business, economics, law, political sciences, etc. Each team will present the standpoint of the essays being assigned, and the position of the team about the arguments made in those essays. It is also expected that teams encourage the rest of the class to discuss the topic being presented. Each team (or group of teams) will have 30 minutes (for the presentation, discussion, questions, etc.). Presentations will take place in class (see the course website for more details).

Team activity 2: Building a data model for a digital business
Each team will be assigned an existing business and asked to design the data model that support its operations. Each team will have to submit a report with the proposal and give a 10-minute presentation in front of the professor.

There will be a peer evaluation at the end of the course for the teamwork (the two activites). The purpose of the peer review is twofold: (1) for each of you to reflect on how you worked as teams and grade the team members; and (2) to give us (professors) data to adjust evaluations to account for your contribution to your teams. Needless to say that all peer reviews will be confidential and that you cannot assign points to yourself. If any of you have not filled up the peer evaluation by the deadline, we will assume that you consider all team members have contribute equally to the final outcome. Based on the peer evaluation we will obtain a multiplier that we will use to adjust the team grades on an individual basis (capping it up or down a maximum of 20%). Regardless of the peer evaluation, in case the professor finds evidences that the contribution is not evenly distributed among members of a team, the grade of the teamwork might be different across members of a team.

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