Aligning Strategies to Goals

The following are the learning outcomes and the assessments strategies for ITEC-N411 Management Information Systems.

Learning Outcome	Cognitive level
Describe the main components of Information Systems with the emphasis on their effects on business processes, organizations and society.	Understand
Describe, using Internet technology, the impact that Information Technology will have on an organization’s strategy.	Understand
Explain the effects that MIS, DSS, CRM and ERP have on organizational communication and decisions making to increase productivity and efficiency in an increasingly competitive business environment.	Evaluate
Use a System Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodology to explain how information systems are designed, developed and maintained to ensure that diverse and changing organizational needs are met effectively and rationally	Create
Analyze and report on at least two different system control and security tools and techniques to ensure high levels of efficiency in an organization’s information system without the danger of fraud or crime	Analyze

Assessment Strategies:

Element	Weight %	Description
Assignment	20% Video (group) Discussion (individual)	LO1 and LO2 Evaluate a real world Case on the experience of UAE based organization with implementing an Enterprise Application.
Midterm	20% INDIVIDUAL	LO1 and LO2
Project	30% Report (group) Presentation (individual)	LO3 and LO4 Real world consultancy report analysing a business problem and creating a viable IT solution for it.
Final	30% SWA	LO (All)

Teaching Strategies:

The teaching strategies in this course are blend of traditional and more innovative teaching styles. Delivering new concepts mostly done through traditional lecturing style, and less often using Independent Learning followed by peer tutoring activities. These strategies mainly aim at helping students to understand the new concepts, to be latter assessed on this understanding in their midterm and final tests.

Drafts discussion sessions, as well as, class and online case study discussions are also used to serve the same objective and also to help students develop their ability to analyze various real world scenarios and recommend solutions to them. Those analytical skills are then assessed through the course Assignment in which they need to identify a real UAE based organization that have implemented an Enterprise Application and develop a case study on this real experience.  The students analytical skills are assessed one more time in the course Project, together with their ability to create a solution for a real world business problem.