Recommended prerequisite for participation in the module

Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• Must understand how ICT services can solve user needs and generate value
• Must have knowledge about service providers and different ways to realize ICT services
• Must have knowledge about ICT service design with proper handling of personal data
• Must have knowledge about privacy and computer ethics in ICT service design
• Must have knowledge about ICT service architectures
• Must have knowledge about concepts relating to sustainable design
• Must have knowledge about different ways of looking at design and architectures with sustainable concepts and measures

Skills

• Must be able to follow a systematic development approach including analysis, requirements specification and prioritization, relevant UML diagrams, documentation, and testing
• Must be able to identify relevant data sources and integrate relevant data in a specific ICT service or solution
• Must be able to design and develop ICT services with controlled exposure of web resources through APIs and endpoints
• Must be able to develop a concrete ICT service or solution, either as a conceptual design or as a working prototype, including at least one of the following elements:
  • Machine learning and algorithms
  • ICT governance aspects
• Must be able to design and develop ICT services and service architectures, including
  • distributed resources and personal data
  • computer ethics and user privacy guidelines
  • one or more specific sustainability concepts, purposes and contexts

Competences

• Must have the competences to identify, propose and design viable ICT services to solve different user needs
• Must have the competences to critically assess the use of ICT in services and service architectures, including ethical, legal and privacy implications as well as their business potential
• Must have competences in applying machine learning and/or analyzing governance aspects in ICT service development
• Must have competences in using concepts relating to sustainability when designing services and solutions
• Must have competences to critically assess and discuss the application of sustainability metrics to design services and service architectures

Type of instruction

Project work

Exam

Prerequisite for enrollment for the exam

• An approved PBL competency profile is a prerequisite for participation in the project exam

Exams