GE1201 - Information Management and Its Social Impact

Nowadays we are immersed into the sea of information. How to successfully manage the information is critical to the study, career and whole-person development of students. This course aims to conquer this problem by broadening your InfoIQ and developing your information literacy. Specially, upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

1. Describe the theories of information management;
2. Explain the conceptual framework of information management from the science, engineering and business perspectives;
3. Apply the general methodologies and strategies to identify, retrieve, evaluate, utilize and create quality information for decision making and problem-solving;
4. Design and develop particular information management solutions to support life-long learning;
5. Work productively as part of team in a collaborative and virtual environment with a global context.

To achieve these learning outcomes, this course will employ effective and interactive teaching and learning activities, such as case studies, hands on tutorials, interactive Q&A tutorial discussion, and mobile learning tasks.