| Aims
To give students an opportunity to demonstrate that:
- they can understand why open-ness in IT tools, products and
applications is so important.
- they can identify the steps that a particular enterprise has taken to
achieve a degree of open-ness.
- they understand fully the term interoperability and its significance.
- they have an appreciation of possible trends in data and information processing.
Notes
a. It is expected that your essay will be about 3500 words long.
b. You are not required to offer detailed hardware or software
specifications.
c. You should expect to bring in portability, re-use and
right-sizing somewhere in your essay.
d. Do not spend too long explaining aims, objectives,
organisation structure etc - look at the assessment criteria.
Criteria
| Pass (40-49) |
- Essay of the appropriate length and appropriately structured
- A basic understanding shown of the main concepts of open systems
- Appreciates the need for some degree of rationalisation IT
procurement and applications.
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| Lower second (50-59) |
- Either meets some of the upper second criteria completely or all of them partly.
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| Upper second (60-69) |
- Clear explanation of main concepts and how they are interrelated
- Clear appreciation of how and why the chosen enterprise has adopted
an open IT policy.
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| First class (70-100) |
- Assignment show signficiant research or original thinking about
the subject.
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Set by: Martin Gandoff
Moderated by: Stuart Codington |
