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1. ITCOM IT, Communication and New Media A new BSc. Education at Aalborg University Copenhagen Morten Falch CMI falch@cmi.aau.dk

2. ProgramOnsdag d. 26 oktober 10.00 - 11.00 Generel introduktion om uddannelsesmetoden på AAU 11.00 - 12.00 Hvad er CMI? 12.00 - 13.00 Frokost med 1. årsstuderende 13.00 -14.00  Introduktion til hvordan man udvikler mobile tjenester 14.00 -15.00  Rundvisning og fælles opsamling med alle studiepraktikanter på AAU-Cph

3. Torsdag d. 27 oktober 10.00 - 12.00 Demonstration af mobil-tv. 12.00 - 13.00 Frokost 13.00 - 14.00 Deltage i projektpræsentation - første semester 14.00 - 15.00 Miniprojekt om udvikling af en mobil tjeneste – f.eks. et spil – startes 15.00 Frivillig fælles opsamling og socialt samvær med kage

4. Fredag d. 28 oktober 10.00 - 12.00 Fortsættelse og færdiggørelse af miniprojekt 12.00 - 13.00 Frokost 13.00 - 15.00 Fremlæggelse af miniprojekt og evaluering af forløb 15.00 Fredagsbaren har åbent (frivilligt programpunkt)

5. Aalborg University Aalborg University

6. CMI (center for Communication, Media and Information technologies) Who are we? • CMI is a new center under Aalborg University in Ballerup • We are currently 14 people: • 9 teachers (professors, associate and assistant professors) • 5 research associates • 2 project manager and • 1 secretary • 16 phd students • Educations: • ITCOM (bachelor) • ICTE (master) • mICT (continuing education in Ghana and DK) • We work with mobile, Internet and digital media technologies and study • how these technologies can be applied in new and creative ways • how they can generate new business opportunities

7. CMI competence areas • Engineering focusing on service and technology development • Engineering focusing on user involvement • Economics – micro, meso and macro • Political science

8. ITCOM – Bumber stickers • Interdisciplinary education • The education combines expertise in IT, Communication and new media with knowledge in markets and organisations • Problem based education • The education builds on the Aalborg model, where project work is an important part of the learning • International education • The education is offered in English in order to attract international students • The education is offered in co-operation with Copenhagen Engineering School • It is possible to continue on your studies on a master education e.g. Innovative Communication Technologies and Entrepreneurship

9. About the Education Leading idea: “To provide a technical education combining an advanced technical understanding of software and network technologies with understanding of users, creativity, economic theory, organisational theory and management.”

10. Convergence of Technologies IT New Media Tele Broadcast

11. What is convergence? Converged Advanced Mobile Media Platforms

12. Payment provider Equipment producer Content provider Regulator Content management Service provider Content aggregator Network operator Digital rights Metadata Payment The future Internet Personalization Service architecture Identity management Security Privacy Service adaptation Network technologies A lot of networks! Quality- of-Service Session mobility Context Terminals Mobile Internet devices (MIDs) Mobile phones PCs / Internet Digital TV Mobile end-users

13. Market Technologies Users & society Convergence: Technologies, market and users! Market players Licenses and regulation Business models Billing and pricing Competition Operator strategies Fight between standards Standardisation bodies Networks Terminals Software tools Content management Security User needs Service delivery Types of services Cost of services Content Ease of use Personalization Privacy Security Implications of ICT ICT strategic problem solving Green ICT Drivers and barriers!

14. Economics and Social Sciences Science and Engineering Industrial and Systems Engineering Business Anthropology and Design Computer Science & Info. Systems Organizational Change & Learning Math and Operations Research Business and Management Deep Need for T-Shaped Professionals: ICT-enabled deep expert-thinking and broad complex-communications Broad Broad across many, deep in at least one …

15. Studying at Aalborg University

16. Why choose Aalborg University? • Problem-Based Learning (PBL) • AAU is famous and internationally recognized for the PBL learning model • Industry prefers the type of engineers educated by AAU • Semester themes • All semesters have an overall common theme • All courses are designed to support this theme • Holistic perspective, rationale for learning, why do I need to learn this? • Project organisation • Students work in groups from Day 1 • Group rooms and facilities, supervision, project planning • Research and study environment • Everything under one roof (in one physical location) • Education takes place in the research environment • Students are in close contact with the teachers and become part of the research environment • Industry and international perspective • Teaching coordinated with industry, e.g. Danish Industry, Nokia, Motorola, TERMA, … • Part of CTIF international teaching programme

17. Semester structure at AAU Semester theme Compulsory and elective courses (typically 3 x 5 ECTS) Individual exam 50%courses 50%project Project work (typically 15 ECTS) Individual exam

18. Semester organisation One semester = 5 months = 30 ECTS = 900 hours 1. Period 2. Period 3. Period 4. Period Lectures Lectures Lectures Evaluation Project Project Project 18

19. The BSc program: ITCOM semester themes

20. 1. SEMESTER: IT systems in a market perspective • Courses in: • Project-orientedlearning • Object-orientedprogramming (java)  • Math • Projects: • P0: Development of a concept for an IT application (first 4 weeks) • P1: Development of a small IT application (from October to December)

21. Examplesonprojects P0 projects: Theme: Development of an e-shop • Real Estate • On-linePharmacy • 3E-toy • YadaYada (Hip Hop clothes) P1 projects: Development of Java application • Social Networking • Hitchikingapplication • Geo-catching game • Image manipulation • Rollerblades • CustomizedComputers/Bikes • Membership card • Selfdesignedt-shirts

24. 2. SEMESTER: System development and user interaction • Courses in: • Requirementsspecification, systems design and userinvolvement • Object-orientedprogramming • DiscreteMath • Project: • Development of an ICT applicationinvolvinguserneeds • Icelandic Viking Game • Mobile bookshop • Social Music Player

25. Hnefatafl – Viking Chess Hnefatafl started to decline in the 900th century with the rise of Chess. It disappeared from Wales in the late 1400th century and from Lappland in the early 1800. There are many references to Hnefatafl in Old Norse literature, from sources ranging from the poems of the Poetic Edda to saga references such as Orkneyinga Saga, the Greenland Lay of Atli, Hervarar Saga, Fridthjof's Saga and more.

26. 3. SEMESTER: Distributed systems and communities • Courses in: • IT in distributed organisations • Computer networks and the Internet • Distributed systems • Project: • Distributed systems and communities

27. 4. SEMESTER: Communication and media technologies • Courses in: • Communication and media technologies • Introduction to Economics • Linear algebra and data mining • Project: • Communication and media technologies • (eg. Interactive TV)

28. 5. SEMESTER: Application development and security • Courses in: • Development of mobile applications • Network and application security • Databases • Project: • Development of a secureapplication

29. 6. SEMESTER: : IT, communication and new media • Courses in e.g.: • Next Generation Networks • Technology and Society • Business law • Project: • Bachelor thesis project