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Syllabus 2015-16 - 13312030 - Web-based information systems (Sistemas de información basados en web)

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DEGREE: Grado en Ingeniería informática
FACULTY: SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING OF JAÉN
ACADEMIC YEAR: 2015-16
COURSE: Web-based information systems
SYLLABUS
1. COURSE BASIC INFORMATION
NAME: Web-based information systems
CODE: 13312030 ACADEMIC YEAR: 2015-16
LANGUAGE: English LEVEL: 1
ECTS CREDITS: 6.0 YEAR: 3 SEMESTER: SC
2. LECTURER BASIC INFORMATION
NAME: GARCÍA CABRERA, LINA GUADALUPE
DEPARTMENT: U118 - INFORMÁTICA
FIELD OF STUDY: 570 - LENGUAJES Y SISTEMAS INFORMÁTICOS
OFFICE NO.: A3 - 132 E-MAIL: lina@ujaen.es P: 953212475
WEBSITE: http://wwwdi.ujaen.es/es/lina
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5066-8365
LANGUAGE: English LEVEL: 1
3. CONTENT DESCRIPTION

Theory

  1. Web:architecture and fundamentals
  2. Hypermedia Systems
  3. Websites Design. User-centered web methodology
  4. Information Architecture
  5. Web Usability
  6. Content Strategy

Practice

Design and Development of a Web Site

  1. Web servers
  2. Web standards
  3. CMS: Content Management System

4. COURSE DESCRIPTION AND TEACHING METHODOLOGY

  • Lectures: Professor concepts presentation, encouraging discussion and student critical reasoning. General examples, brief lectures on podcasts and online materials.
  • Practices: Practical activities, seminars, labs, resolution and discussion of practical cases.
  • Collective / individual tutorials: Monitoring, presentation and discussion of students guided work.

Throughout the course, students complete a website-project that meets the principles of usability and based on web standards. This web site is structured in activities that will be supervised by teachers.

Students with special educational needs should contact the Student Attention Service (Servicio de Atención y Ayudas al Estudiante) in order to receive the appropriate academic support

5. ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY

Theory (30%):  Written examination with short questions, problem solving and practical cases.

Practice (30%) and Guided Work (30%): Continuous assessment of work during semester. Every session work will have a deadline. Session work will be conducted by teams. Teams must submit a memory of their web site before last practice session and must expose and discuss it with professor on last session.

Practice and guided work realization is compulsory along semester. On extraordinary exams, students with no score on this concept, must contact with professor, al least one month in advance before written exam, in order to assign them a specific topic, which they will have to expose and discuss.

Assessment criteria: topic complexity, work scope, report and presentation quality, and topic knowledge.

Participation (10%). Student class participation on classroom or on-line activities (forum, wiki, etc.) to solve or discuss problems or doubts proposed by professor or other students. Also it will be assessed regularly practice session attending.

6. BOOKLIST
MAIN BOOKLIST:
  • Don't make me think, revisited : a common sense approach to Web usability. Edition: -. Author: Krug, Steve. Publisher: [Berkeley, Calif.] : New Riders, cop. 2014  (Library)
  • Rocket surgery made easy [Recurso electrónico] : the do-it-yourself guide to finding and fixing usab. Edition: -. Author: Krug, Steve. Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : New Riders, c2010.  (Library)
  • A practical guide to information architecture. Edition: -. Author: Spencer, Donna. Publisher: Penarth : Five Simple Steps, 2010  (Library)
  • Card sorting [Recurso electrónico] : designing usable categories. Edition: -. Author: Spencer, Donna. Publisher: Brooklyn, N.Y. : Rosenfeld Media, c2009  (Library)
  • The elements of content strategy [Recurso electrónico]. Edition: -. Author: Kissane, Erin. Publisher: New York : A Book Apart, 2011  (Library)
  • Web usability: a user-centered design approach. Edition: -. Author: Lazar, Jonathan. Publisher: Boston [etc.] : Addison Wesley, [2006]  (Library)
  • Information architecture [Recurso electrónico] : blueprints for the Web. Edition: 2nd ed.. Author: Wodtke, Christina. Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : New Riders, c2009.  (Library)
  • Web services architecture and its specifications [Recurso electrónico] : essentials for understand. Edition: -. Author: Cabrera, Luis-Felipe. Publisher: Redmond, Wash. : Microsoft Press, c2005.  (Library)
  • A practical guide to information architecture. Edition: -. Author: Spencer, Donna. Publisher: Penarth : Five Simple Steps, 2010.
    • Notes: Ebook http://uxmastery.com/practical-ia/
     (Library)