This module explicitly focuses on significant elements required for the achievement of the STAFFORDSHIRE GRADUATE ATTRIBUTES:
- Work-ready and employable
- Understanding of enterprise and entrepreneurship
- Understanding of global issues and their place in the global economy
- Communication skills
- Presentation skills
- The ability to interact confidently with colleagues
- Skills of team working
- Ability to carry out inquiry-based learning and critical analysis
- Technologically, digitally and information literate
- Able to apply Staffordshire Graduate attributes to a range of life experiences to facilitate life-long learning

The module will cover the following topics:
* Professional Development
- Analysis of current skills
- E-portfolio creation
- Professional development planning
- Professional work processes and issues
- Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
* Study Skills
- Introduction to libraries and learning resources
- Learning outcomes, assessment and marking criteria
- Mind Maps
- Report preparation, writing, presentation and referencing
- Assessment variations and the importance of formative assessments
- Formal presentation skills
- Individual working
- Group working and group dynamics
- Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and Personal Development Planning (PDP)
- Project Management Techniques
- Introduction to basic research skills
* IT Skills
- Use of a word processor (e.g. Word(TM))
- Use of presentation software (e.g. PowerPoint(TM))
- Introduction to the use of database technologies in society and the workplace

A portfolio containing
- Individual skills audit and Action Plan Weighted at 20% (circa 1000 words) addressing Learning Outcomes 1 and 2. This will occur early in the module and acts to provide an early focus of work and feedback and aims to facilitate retention.
- Group Case Study report and presentation Weighted at 50% (Groups of 3 or 4, 3000 words, 15 slides, 15 minutes) addressing learning outcomes 1 and 3
- Individual research report on a topic chosen from a list and relating to the use of IT in society and the workplace. (2000 words) Weighted at 30% and addressing Learning Outcomes 1 and 4
Final component of assessment.

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The Study Skills Book (Smarter Study Skills), Kathleen McMillan and Jonathan Weyers, 2012, Pearson Education Ltd, ISBN-10: 0273773313, ISBN-13: 978-0273773313 (Edition: 3)
The Study Skills Handbook (Palgrave study skills), Cottrell, S. 2008, PALGRAVE, Macmillan ISBN-10: 0230573053, ISBN-13: 978-0230573055 (Edition: 3)
Pandora's Box: Social and Professional Issues of the Information Age, Andrew Adams and Rachel McCrindle, 2007, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN-10: 0470065532, ISBN-13: 978-0470065532
Ethics for the Information Age: International Edition, Mike Quinn, 2010, Pearson Education, ISBN-10: 0132134853, ISBN-13: 978-0132134859 (Edition: 4)
A Gift of Fire: Social, Legal and Ethical Issues for Computing and the Internet, Sara Baase, 2012, Pearson Education, ISBN-10: 027376859X, ISBN-13: 978-0273768593 (Edition: 4)
The Literature Review ¿ A Step-by-Step Guide for Students, Ridley, D. 2012 Sage Publications Ltd, ISBN-10: 1446201430, ISBN-13: 978-1446201435 (Edition: 2)

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The contact time will be broken down as follows: 26 lectures, 52 tutorials During this module you will work in groups of 3 or 4 during tutorials to collaborate on a group case study.