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Information Technology

Build durable Information Technology knowledge through concise explanations, Caribbean-context examples, immediate feedback, and objective-level mastery.

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Unit 1

Information Technology Theory

Core ideas behind information, systems, digital problem-solving, and responsible technology choices.
1

Fundamentals of Information Technology

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Build the vocabulary and mental models needed to understand data, information, hardware, software, networks, and digital tools.

174 min · 9 published activities
  1. Information Technology Is a System of Choices 12 min
  2. From Data to Information to Knowledge 14 min
  3. Follow the Information-Processing Cycle 13 min
  4. Map the Computing Disciplines 14 min
  5. Trace Technology Development 15 min
  6. Classify Information Sources 14 min
  7. Evaluate a Source Before You Rely on It 16 min
  8. Represent Data for Computers 16 min
  9. Choose Fit-for-Purpose IT Tools 16 min
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Information Systems

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See how people, processes, data, hardware, software, and networks combine into working information systems, and how those systems are used, connected, secured, and reached over the web.

342 min · 18 published activities
  1. Model an Information System 16 min
  2. Match Systems to Work and Decisions 17 min
  3. How Systems Change 19 min
  4. Information That Fits the Decision 18 min
  5. Hardware That Does the Work 18 min
  6. Software That Runs the System 18 min
  7. How People Meet the Machine 18 min
  8. Interfaces That Include Everyone 20 min
  9. Connecting a Place: Reach and Topology 20 min
  10. Data on the Move 18 min
  11. Agreeing How to Talk: Layers and Addresses 20 min
  12. Design a Small Network 20 min
  13. Configure and Secure a Network 20 min
  14. Diagnose a Network Fault 20 min
  15. Protecting the System 20 min
  16. How the Web Fits Together 18 min
  17. Build a Simple Web Page 22 min
  18. Module Review Challenge 20 min
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3

Information and Problem-Solving

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Turn real needs into justified information-system solutions using evidence, development models, diagrams, and well-designed algorithms.

234 min · 13 published activities
  1. Solve the Right Problem 14 min
  2. Work the Problem-Solving Cycle 16 min
  3. Find the Information That Matters 15 min
  4. Decide Whether Information Deserves Trust 16 min
  5. Choose a Development Model 18 min
  6. Follow the SDLC from Feasibility to Review 20 min
  7. Select the Right SDLC Tool 19 min
  8. Read and Build Data Flow Diagrams 22 min
  9. Recognize a Well-Designed Algorithm 15 min
  10. Express an Algorithm Three Ways 17 min
  11. Build Algorithms with Control Structures 22 min
  12. Turn an Algorithm into a Program 15 min
  13. Module 3 Review Challenge 25 min
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Unit 2

Application and Implication

Apply information-management and digital-tool skills while evaluating organisational, personal, legal, ethical, and social implications.
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Information Management

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Model, normalise, construct, query, validate, and evaluate organisational data stores.

624 min · 26 published activities
  1. Information Management readiness 12 min
  2. Data hierarchy and management terms 22 min
  3. Storage-device and format evolution 24 min
  4. Compression, volume, access, and speed 26 min
  5. Database versus traditional files 22 min
  6. Data-quality dimensions 24 min
  7. Master and transaction files 26 min
  8. File-organisation methods 22 min
  9. Database-organisation models 24 min
  10. Operational and analytical data uses 26 min
  11. Context-level DFDs 22 min
  12. First-level DFDs and balancing 24 min
  13. Internet demand and underlying databases 26 min
  14. Business impact of deficient data 22 min
  15. Purpose and anomalies 24 min
  16. First normal form 26 min
  17. Second normal form 22 min
  18. Third normal form 24 min
  19. Normalise a supplied case 26 min
  20. Keys and relationship cardinality 22 min
  21. Entity-relationship diagrams 24 min
  22. Tables, relationships, and integrity 26 min
  23. Forms, reports, and user tasks 22 min
  24. Queries and SQL 24 min
  25. Validation and verification 26 min
  26. Information Management review 36 min
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2

Use of Information Technology Tools

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Select, use, evaluate, and communicate with productivity, web, information, and emerging-technology tools.

552 min · 23 published activities
  1. Use of Information Technology Tools readiness 12 min
  2. Tool value and organisational demand 22 min
  3. Financial, statistical, and development tools 24 min
  4. Productivity, database, publishing, and PIM tools 26 min
  5. Create and format shared work 22 min
  6. Permissions and collaborative control 24 min
  7. Desktop and mobile operating systems 26 min
  8. Task, analysis, and data fit 22 min
  9. Storage, processing, access, and reporting fit 24 min
  10. Choose a presentation format 26 min
  11. Select appropriate information sources 22 min
  12. Evaluate reliability and scope 24 min
  13. Identify bias and corroborate claims 26 min
  14. Communication tools and channels 22 min
  15. Remote protocols and responsible exchange 24 min
  16. Semantic HTML forms 26 min
  17. Client-side validation 22 min
  18. Accessible CSS presentation 24 min
  19. JSON and framework roles 26 min
  20. Alternative interfaces, wearables, and IoT 22 min
  21. AI, blockchain, cloud, and robotics 24 min
  22. Evidence-based emerging-tool recommendation 26 min
  23. Use of Information Technology Tools review 36 min
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Social, Organisational and Personal Issues

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Evaluate information-technology impacts, risks, law and policy categories, ethics, security controls, wellbeing, sustainability, and intellectual property.

646 min · 27 published activities
  1. Social, Organisational and Personal Issues readiness 12 min
  2. Human-system interaction and automation 22 min
  3. Skills, work, education, and retraining 24 min
  4. Economy, governance, and virtual organisation 26 min
  5. Culture, health, safety, politics, and bias 22 min
  6. Fraud, propaganda, sabotage, and deception 24 min
  7. Malware and service disruption 26 min
  8. Unauthorised access, theft, piracy, and harassment 22 min
  9. Threat, vulnerability, attack, and compromise 24 min
  10. Failure, BYOD, disaster, and hazard 26 min
  11. Encryption and equipment disposal trade-offs 22 min
  12. Legal and ethical handling of information 24 min
  13. Internet, email, and security policies 26 min
  14. Security risk and layered control 22 min
  15. Health, safety, and workplace design 24 min
  16. Energy, pollution, and e-waste 26 min
  17. Recovery, backup, and power protection 22 min
  18. Authentication, monitoring, and protection 24 min
  19. Intellectual-property terms 26 min
  20. Software-licensing arrangements 22 min
  21. Activation and digital-rights management 24 min
  22. Plagiarism forms and implications 26 min
  23. Software piracy consequences 22 min
  24. Online social implications 24 min
  25. Machine interaction in services 26 min
  26. Wearable-computing roles and risks 22 min
  27. Social, Organisational and Personal Issues review 36 min
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