Postgraduate Course: Design Informatics Placement (INFR11096)
Course Outline
| School | School of Informatics |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 0 |
| Home subject area | Informatics |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
http://course.inf.ed.ac.uk/dip |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | The Design Informatics Placement gives students practical experience of (a) working on design informatics problems in the commercial or public sector; and (b) working as members of a team. The placement involves applying and combining material from several courses to act as a competent member of a team, whose size and purpose will vary depending on the organization supporting the placement.
Placements are industrially/academically co-supervised projects with start-ups and established companies (SMEs or larger), and public sector bodies, including research organisations. The smaller hosts are typically local; the larger can be elsewhere in the UK. Length of placement varies between one and three months.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
Students MUST have passed:
Design Informatics Project (DESI11026) AND
Design with Data (DESI11025)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | This course is open to all Informatics students including those on joint degrees. For external students where this course is not listed in your DPT, please seek special permission from the course organiser. |
| Additional Costs | No additional costs of the School. Host organisations must agree in advance to meet any relevant travel/accommodation/subsistence costs. |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2013/14 Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Learn enabled: No |
Quota: None |
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Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Course Start Date |
21/04/2014 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Please contact the School directly for a breakdown of Learning and Teaching Activities |
| Additional Notes |
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
A student who has successfully completed this course should be able to:
- Demonstrate that they can contribute to the activities of a small group, usually in the commercial sector
- Critically evaluate personal experience in addressing problems and suggesting potential solutions
- Construct a multimodal presentation communicating these critical reflections |
Assessment Information
Assessed Assignments 100
100% of assessment is for the multimodal presentation created by the student to capture their reflective analysis. |
Special Arrangements
Placements involve students spending from 1-3 months onsite with a host company or organisation.
Since the Design Informatics Community of Interest is the source of host companies, many of these are local to Central Scotland, but any interested UK-based company in our Community can be considered as a host. Host companies may pay the student a salary or stipend at their own discretion, but must agree to cover travel/accommodation/subsistence costs for students as required, depending on their location. In the case of non home/EU students, any discretionary salary arrangements must be compatible with regulations of the UK Borders Agency. |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
Placements are project based and the tasks to be carried out are defined in advance, in consultation between a member of the host organisation and an academic member of staff, who act as co-supervisors.
Supervisors are briefed to ensure that each project has sufficient academic content to be assessable, and sufficient relevance to the host to have potential for follow-up. Supervisors must also ensure that projects avoid any 'mission-critical' involvement with the host's operations and otherwise manage any potential conflict between the host's commercial/operational interests and student's academic interests. Students and supervisors meet regularly (face to face or virtually), normally weekly, throughout the placement.
The placement has a variable term, with a length of up to three months.
- Immediately prior to the placement, the student works through a catalogue of types of experience they wish to gain, and identifies those they wish to prioritise.
- During the placement, they keep a diary recording examples of activities which increase experience in the selected areas, and their progress through the project.
- Following the placement, an accessible personal reflection is compiled, and made available for academic assessment before the beginning of the next academic year.
This form of assessment recognises that placement projects with external hosts may not succeed as planned, for reasons beyond the student's control. A reflective analysis provides the means for all students to submit a report whose assessment is not tied to the success or failure of the placement projects themselves. |
| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
Not entered |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Lectures 3
Tutorials 0
Timetabled Laboratories 0
Coursework Assessed for Credit 35
Other Coursework / Private Study 62
Total 100
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Jon Oberlander
Tel: (0131 6)50 4439
Email: J.Oberlander@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Katey Lee
Tel: (0131 6)50 2701
Email: Katey.Lee@ed.ac.uk |
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