Mentor's Seminar "Developing an Individual Educational Trajectory"

2022/2023

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

3

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Department of Business Informatics

Course type:

Compulsory course

When:

1 year, 1-4 module

Instructor

Beklaryan, Armen

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Within the framework of this mentor's seminar, students get acquainted with the available trajectories of the educational process based on existing baskets of elective courses and MAGOLEGO courses, followed by the development of an individual track that meets the future professional expectations of the student. Students' skills in working with information sources, both digital and paper, are also being developed in order to maximize the effectiveness of students' independent work throughout the entire period of study on the Programme.

Learning Objectives

• The seminar is aimed at developing students' skills in managing their own educational process, in the evolution of successes and difficulties, in setting and achieving goals within the framework of learning and practice on the educational program

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Conducts exploratory research, analysis and evaluation of digital innovations
• Analyzes his own progress along an individual educational trajectory
• Correlates his educational plans and the landscape of expertise in the field of business analytics and big data systems
• Forms tasks for the research of new markets, monitors the progress of research and accepts their results
• Conducts search and analysis of the most relevant academic and applied research in the field of business analytics and big data systems
• Justifies his choice of individual elements of the curriculum
• Correlates its educational plans with the structural elements of the educational program

Course Contents

• Key research areas in the field of business analytics and big data systems
• Setting research tasks
• Defense of project proposals
• Monitoring of the development of the educational process by students

Assessment Elements

• State-of-the-art 1
  Preparation of state of the art in the chosen subject area
• Practice defense
• State-of-the-art 2
  Preparation of state of the art in the chosen subject area
• Project defense 1
• Exam 1
• Individual trajectory
• Exam 2
• Project defense 2

Interim Assessment

• 2022/2023 4th module
  0.3 * Exam 1 + 0.2 * Individual trajectory + 0.3 * State-of-the-art 1 + 0.2 * Project defense 1
• 2023/2024 2nd module
  0.6 * State-of-the-art 2 + 0.4 * Project defense 2
• 2023/2024 3rd module
  0.6 * Exam 2 + 0.4 * Practice defense

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Gournelos, T., Hammonds, J. R., & Wilson, M. A. (2019). Doing Academic Research: A Practical Guide to Research Methods and Analysis.

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Dwivedi, Y. K., Ismagilova, E., Hughes, D. L., Carlson, J., Filieri, R., Jacobson, J., Jain, V., Karjaluoto, H., Kefi, H., Krishen, A. S., Kumar, V., Rahman, M. M., Raman, R., Rauschnabel, P. A., Rowley, J., Salo, J., Tran, G. A., & Wang, Y. (2020). Setting the future of digital and social media marketing research: Perspectives and research propositions.
• Saunders, M. N. ., & Lewis, P. (2017). Doing Research in Business and Management (Vol. 2nd). Harlow, United Kingdom: Pearson. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1594065
• Saunders, M., & Lewis, P. (2012). Doing Research in Business and Management : An Essential Guide to Planning Your Project. Harlow: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1418659
• Sharan B. Merriam, & Robin S. Grenier. (2019). Qualitative Research in Practice : Examples for Discussion and Analysis: Vol. Second edition. Jossey-Bass.
• Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, Vaclav Snasel, Aboul Ella Hassanien, Satadal Saha, & B. K. Tripathy. (2020). Deep Learning : Research and Applications. De Gruyter.
• Snyder, H. (2019). Literature review as a research methodology: An overview and guidelines. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.07.039
• Ted Gournelos, Joshua R. Hammonds, & Maridath A. Wilson. (2019). Doing Academic Research : A Practical Guide to Research Methods and Analysis. Routledge.
• Walle, A. H. (2015). Qualitative Research in Business : A Practical Overview. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1014736

Authors

• BEKLARYAN ARMEN LEVONOVICH