This workshop engages participants in exploring corporate data collection, personal profiling, deceptive design, and data brokerage practices. Workshop content is contextualized with the theoretical frameworks of panoptic sort (Gandy), surveillance capitalism (Zuboff), and the four regulators (Lessig) and presented through a privacy and business ethics lens. Participants will learn how companies make money from data collection practices; explore how interface design can influence our choices and behaviors; and discuss business ethics regarding privacy and big data.
Assignments
Posted on August 4, 2023
Author: Sarah Hartman-Caverly
Discipline: Business, Library and Information Science
Posted on November 8, 2019
Author: Pascal Martinolli
An open access MOOC in French to bonify the information literacy skills of university students (with Moodle).
Discipline: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art, Business, Classics, Communication Studies, Economics, Education, English, Ethnic Studies, Film and TV, History, Information Management, Law, Liberal Studies, Library and Information Science, Linguistics, Multidisciplinary, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing, Social Work, Sociology, Theater Arts, Theology, Women's Studies
Information Literacy Concepts: Defines Information Need (ACRL 1, SCONUL 1&2, ANZIL 1), Finds Information (ACRL 2, SCONUL 3&4, ANZIL 2&4, ANCIL 5), Evaluates (ACRL 3, SCONUL 5, ANZIL 3, ANCIL 4), Uses Information (ACRL 4, SCONUL 7, ANZIL 5, ANCIL 8&9), Ethics (ACRL 5, SCONUL 6, ANZIL 6, ANCIL 7), Authority is Constructed / Contextual (Frame 1), Information Creation as Process (Frame 2), Information Has Value (Frame 3), Research as Inquiry (Frame 4), Scholarship as Conversation (Frame 5), Searching as Strategic Exploration (Frame 6)
Posted on April 24, 2019
Author: Tom Rankin
Student select a company and complete very simple analysis of income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statements
Discipline: Business
Posted on December 12, 2018
Author: Katrina Stierholz
Collaborators: Diego Mendez-Carbajo, Charissa Jefferson
Students learn about innovation, the distribution of innovation across the country, and what can be patented. Working in groups, they examine patents and consider the changes the patents brought. They then use a mapping program and interpret data from that map to consider how local resources promote innovation.
Discipline: Business, Economics, Urban Studies
Information Literacy Concepts: Information Has Value (Frame 3)
Posted on November 28, 2018
Author: Nataly Blas
The Business Task Cards is a 1-hour team-based activity. The activity was created for a business management course that needed to complete a business opportunity project. The activity requires students to complete four tasks: 1) Find company information, 2) Find a company's income statement, 3) Find articles on a company's management strategy, and 4) Find current industry trends that will impact the company. A print and online version of the activity is provided.
Discipline: Business
Posted on November 20, 2018
Author: Tom Rankin
The purpose of this Business Benchmark assignment is to professionally present (3-5 minutes) a new idea to improve and aspect of the college. This presentation has no mandated materials, students are however expected to provide an excellent, well explained, supported and presented new idea. Your goal is to inspire your audience to take a specific action or position.
Discipline: Business
Posted on November 17, 2018
Author: Tom Rankin
This project has four Business case elements. Each element is related to one of the student course outcomes. Each case will require students to complete the following:
Read all elements of each case, including exhibits.
Write a one page summary for each case answering the questions in each case, for a total of a 4 page report.
The report should be submitted as one consolidated report addressing all four cases below.
Discipline: Business
Information Literacy Concepts: Evaluates (ACRL 3, SCONUL 5, ANZIL 3, ANCIL 4)
Posted on November 17, 2018
Author: Tom Rankin
Ready to be an entrepreneur? Your final project is to create a business/product and sell it to your classmates, Shark Tank style! You will complete this assignment individually OR with a partner and your classmates will play the role of the Sharks!
Your company can offer a physical product or a service, but it should not just be a copy of something already offered … BE CREATIVE! Think outside of the box …
Discipline: Business
Posted on November 17, 2018
Author: Tom Rankin
About: You are the Chief Executive Officer of an exciting start up Clean Energy Business. This is a web-based free simulation. Students play the role of the founder of a new start-up company in the exciting and competitive clean tech sector. Each quarter students must set prices, decide how many engineers and sales people to hire, and set compensation, including salary, stock, options and profit sharing. Students must also make financial decisions such as debt level, equity level and overall cash management.
Discipline: Business
Posted on July 24, 2018
Author: Pascal Martinolli
A scholarly character sheet for self-assessment about information literacy skills - gamification around quantified self, badging and young researcher identity.
Une feuille d'autoévaluation pour suivre les apprentissages en compétences informationnelles acquises sur le moyen ou le long terme. Elle est ludifiée avec des éléments de mesure de soi, de badge et d'identité de jeune chercheur.
Discipline: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art, Business, Classics, Communication Studies, Dance, Economics, Education, English, Ethnic Studies, Film and TV, History, Information Management, Library and Information Science, Linguistics, Multidisciplinary, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing, Social Work, Sociology, Theater Arts, Theology, Urban Studies, Women's Studies