OVERVIEW

All the contents and rules for this module are described in the main course. The exam is unique.

The course deals with the advanced aspects of the use of personal computers, information systems and the network in the digital society. The course illustrates both the essential technical aspects and the tools and systems, and may include an individual project in which the student develops his/her own product at professional and market standards.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

This course deals with the most advanced aspects of using personal computers and the network in digital society. Recruitment is that all kinds of documents of the past (notebook, book, picture, photography, movies, texts, sound recordings ...) and all kinds of dissemination of such documents (library, newspaper, television, telephone .. .) have now completed convergence towards a single technological means: the computer. Even though this name is already obsolete in itself, today one technology (the computer) is present in all devices that handle information, from phone to TV, from library to network (internet), tablet (tablet) Public services. It is indispensable, for information and culture, to know the aspects of this technology, as well as the principles of encoding all the information digitally (digital), and the aspects that most differentiate it from the previous world: speed, sharing and security.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Following the Bloom's taxonomy, the student will achieve the following results (levels 2 to 4):
Describe: 1) the fundamentals of how multimedia documents are encoded inside the computer and in the internet, and of the different tools for converting, writing and transmitting documents; 2) the world wide web and principles for designing web-based communication Apply: state-of-practice design schemes for multimedia communication and for the web Compare: different tools and techniques for writing, storing, communicating information, in particular for the web Design and test: a real website for culture, or commerce, or tourism, or similar fields of application

PREREQUISITES

Basic mathematics and English language.

TEACHING METHODS

The course will use the flipped classroom methodology. Aulaweb will be organized in weeks; at the beginning of each week the study texts will be published together with video lessons. On Thursday and / or Friday (in the official time slots) there will be meetings with students to discuss the program published at the beginning of the week. For the system to be effective, students must study the material before each lesson-meeting. During these lessons there will be exercises and discussions in small groups (4 or 5 students), of varying composition.

Students in possession of certification of disability, DSA or special educational needs must contact, at the beginning of lessons, both the teacher and the department's disability contact, Prof. Serena Scotto (scotto@economia.unige.it) , to agree on teaching and examination methods which, in compliance with the teaching objectives, take into account individual learning methods and allow the use of any compensatory tools.
The study material in pdf format will comply with the ISO 14289 standard for DSA accessibility.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Digital documents, coding, binary numbering, textual and non textual documents, compression (lossless and lossy), website, notions of web and social marketing (blog, website, provider, notifications, push, mobile, tracking). The network: generality, addresses, LANs, services, wireless, localization, cloud, cookies. Security and safety (malware, encription, secure web, digital signature). Multimedia: sound, image and video, lossy compression, standards. Tools for website development.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

The study material will be published in Aulaweb

LESSONS

LESSONS START

Second semester February 2025

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

The exam consists of a theoretical exam, by means of a test in the aulaweb and its discussion. The theoretical exam provides a maximum of 20 points. To this is added a practical exam, in which each student develops a communication and marketing project, using state-of-the-art IT productivity tools. The project provides a maximum of 10 points. Honors may be awarded when both parties deserve a note of excellence.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The exam will verify the ability to describe the fundamentals of how multimedia documents are encoded inside the computer and on the Internet, and of the different tools for converting, writing and transmitting documents; it will also ascertain knowledge of the organization of the world wide web and of the principles for designing web-based communication. It will also ascertain how the student is able to use state-of-the-art design schemes for multimedia communication and for the web, as well as the ability to compare different tools and techniques for writing, storing, communicating information, especially for the web . The project will allow to ascertain the ability to design and implement: a real website (or a mobile app) for culture, or commerce, or tourism, or similar fields of application.

FURTHER INFORMATION

for office hours for students: see Aulaweb

Tthe course might include lessons and supervisons delivered in the form of distance learning.
Virtual machines in cloud will be available for exercises and the course web project.