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Emerging technology adoption and use (FITech)

Course is offered via <a href="https://fitech.io/en/studies/emerging-technology-adoption-and-use/">FITech</a> free of charge.&nbsp;

Attending 50 % of the lectures and successfully completing 1) three lecture diary reports (individual assignment) and 2) the course exercise (group assignment).

More information in Tampere University’s <a href="https://www.tuni.fi/en/students-guide/curriculum/course-units/tut-cu-g-48461?">study guide</a>.

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Email: open.studies.tau [at] tuni.fi (open[dot]studies[dot]tau[at]tuni[dot]fi) 
Phone: 0294 520 200

More information concerning Open University studies 
<a href="https://www.tuni.fi/open-university">tuni.fi/open-university</a>

Advanced studies

Faculty of Management and Business

Technology and Natural Sciences

English

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Core content

<ul>
	<li>The principles of information systems management</li>
	<li>Emerging technologies</li>
	<li>Technology adoption and use</li>
	<li>Group assignment to analyze the adoption and/or use of a particular emerging technology in a specific setting with a specific lens</li>
</ul>

Complementary/specialist knowledge

<ul>
	<li>Practical knowledge on managing information systems</li>
	<li>Insights into emerging information systems, tools and services</li>
	<li>Practical knowledge on information systems adoption and use</li>
	<li>Insights to working on open-ended problems (groups select a topic they of their own choosing)</li>
	<li>Specific theories on information systems management</li>
	<li>Understanding the characteristics of a particular technology and their affordances</li>
	<li>Specific theories on information systems adoption and use</li>
	<li>Context-specific understanding of the use cases or processes that are changed because of technology adoption</li>
</ul>

After the course, the students

<ul>
	<li>understand the effects of emerging technology (e.g. information systems) on individuals, organisations and societies.</li>
	<li>can critically assess and identify characteristics of a particular technology (e.g. virtual reality), study its adoption and use in a particular setting (e.g. in manufacturing industry), with a particular lens (e.g. with a management theory to explain the influencing factors to its use).</li>
	<li>can critically assess how the emerging technology can facilitate change in behavior and processes.</li>
	<li>can apply their knowledge of emerging information systems phenomena to overcome a specific open-ended problem. 
	&nbsp;</li>
</ul>

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