| Kursusnavn (dansk): | Navigating Complexity Mapping Visualisation and Decisionmaking |
| Kursusnavn (engelsk): | Navigating Complexity Mapping Visualisation and Decisionmaking |
| Semester: | Forår 2014 |
| Udbydes under: | cand.it., Digital Innovation & Management (dim) |
| Omfang i ECTS: | 15,00 |
| Kursussprog: | Engelsk |
| Kursushjemmeside: | https://learnit.itu.dk |
| Min. antal deltagere: | 12 |
| Forventet antal deltagere: | 75 |
| Maks. antal deltagere: | 50 |
| Formelle forudsætninger: | Please note that this course is only available for students enrolled in the programme Digital Innovation & Management. |
| Læringsmål: | Changes may occur until the beginning of the semester
Having completed the course, the student is able to:
1. Develop research questions that allow for the exploration of complexity.
2. Compose a framework based on relevant conceptual and practical tools for analysing complex knowledge fields within science, technology and innovation.
3. Generate data sets that allows for visualizing the complexity of the selected controversy.
4. Reflect on the choice of methods and discuss the effects on the representations made.
5. Evaluate and discuss how the learned approaches may be useful for researcher participation and organizational decision-making. |
| Fagligt indhold: | The course will teach students to describe and analyze complexity within science, technology and innovation through the use of digital methods. A key learning objective is to understand and master the dynamic relation between complexity and visualization. Throughout the course students will experiment with different techniques for generating and visualizing complex knowledge fields. They will learn the basics of actor-network theory and to work data through quali-quantitative approaches. Based on elaborate case work, students will be requested to reflect on how visualizations work as simplifications and on how visualizations may inform organizational decision-making. After the course students will be capable of dealing with, communicate and act constructively in situations faced by complex challenges and without obvious or straightforward solutions presenting themselves. |
| Læringsaktiviteter: | 14 ugers undervisning bestående af forelæsninger og øvelser Each week students have 2x2 hours of lecture and 2x2 hours of exercises (10-14 Tuesdays and 12-16 Fridays).
Lectures will be a mix of regular lectures, skype lectures and case presentations held by the teachers with TA attendance. Apart from lectures held by the anchor teachers guest lecturers will be conducted by experts in the field.
During exercises students will be divided into groups of 20. The groups will work with one TA each and the time will be dedicated to working practically with the topic of the day and preparing for next week’s readings (collect data, outlining of concepts, discuss assignments).
The curriculum is designed to provide students with some basic insights with respect to representation and objectivity in STS. The students will be sensitized to complexity. We first draw on examples of navigating complexity from their own lives in order to later let them work with cases of navigating complexity that focuses on IT innovation in an organizational/business context. Students will learn to distinguish between two main positions with regards to navigating complexity (contrasting moments situating/abstracting). |
| Obligatoriske aktivititer: | Participate in a research group based TED talk presenting case work. |
| Eksamensform og -beskrivelse: | X. experimental examination form (7-scale; external exam), 7-trins-skala, Ekstern prøve Reports are handed in by groups. The student is examined individually in the syllabus as well as the hand-in.
Duration of the oral exam: 30 minutes per student incl. assessment and feedback.
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| Litteratur udover forskningsartikler: | To be announced. |
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