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GROUP Assignment (30%)

Module’s Information:

Module ITM2204 COMPUTER ETHICS


Session JANUARY 2020
Programme BCSI/BITI
Lecturer ZURIANI HAYATI BINTI ABDULLAH
Phone: 06-7982000 ext 2620 Room: 3A3-4
Coursework Type GROUP ASSIGNMENT
Percentage 30%
Hand-out Date WEEK 8
Due Date WEEK 12

Student’s Declaration:

I declare that:
 I understand what is meant by plagiarism
 This assignment is all my own work and I have acknowledged any use of the published or
unpublished works of other people.
 I hold a copy of this assignment which I can produce if the original is lost or damaged

No. Name Student ID Signature


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DATE: __________________________

Learning Outcomes Assessed:


LO3 Discuss the importance of privacy, particularly in relation to data stored in and released from
computer systems.
LO4 Discuss the issues relating to piracy, copyright and intellectual property.
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Assessment Criteria Total Marks Given Marks

1. Format and structure 5


2. Table of Content 5
3. Introduction 5
4. Background 5
5. Ethical Dilemmas 20
6. Analysis 40
7. Conclusion 5
8. References 5
9. Self-Reflection report 10
10. Total 100
Final Mark (100%)

Lecturer’s Comments

Penalty for late submission:


1 day – minus 20% of total mark awarded
2 days – minus 50% of total mark awarded
3 days – 0 mark for this piece of coursework

Description of GROUP Assignment :

Work in group of 5 members each group. You and your group members need to choose ONE
topic from the list given.

In this group assignment, students are required to take a more in-depth look at a topic of your
choosing.

Each group need to identify at least FOUR ethical dilemmas or questions that is related to social,
legal and ethical issues of the topic chosen.

You are expected to:

(i) Analyze these ethical dilemmas, evaluate their importance, research and understand
the viewpoints of multiple stakeholders.

(ii) Provide divergent view when examining the ethical dilemmas from a perspective of a
specific stakeholders.

(iii) Provide an analyze some of the debates (if available) that occurred among the
stakeholders.
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The report MUST include the following items:

a. Cover Page
b. Students Declaration Page
c. Table of Content
d. Introduction
e. Background
f. Ethical dilemmas & Analysis
g. Conclusion
h. Self-Contribution Form
i. References

Each member needs to produce OWN “Self-Contribution Form” (Appendix A) and state
clearly about his/her responsibility, tasks completed, contribution to the project and attached to
the document.

Only HARDCOPY submission will be accepted. Any Softcopy submission will not be graded.

LIST OF TOPIC:

(i) Computers and environment


(ii) Ownership of ideas
(iii) Distance learning
(iv) Cyberspace communities
(v) Identity theft
(vi) Hacktivism
(vii) Children on the internet
(viii) Telemedicine
(ix) Predator drones
(x) Open source software
(xi) Social issues for smartphone
(xii) Violence in computer games
(xiii) Privacy on the web
(xiv) Internet censorship
(xv) Technology and terrorism
(xvi) Identification and biometrics
(xvii) Digital distractions
(xviii) Information warfare
(xix) Addiction to video games
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1.0 ASSIGNMENT REPORT FORMAT

Please refer and implement the report format guidelines below for this report assignment:

 Use 70g A4 size paper, each page of assignment must be printed single sided.
 Adhere to the following word processing requirements:

i. All heading should be capitalized, bold and left-aligned. Tab = 1cm


ii. All paragraphs must be fully justified with 1.5 line spacing.
iii. All text must be typed in font type “Times New Roman”, text size 12.
iv. Include details for your name, student matriculation number, and assignment
title in your front page.
v. Do not include unnecessary information such as logo, date, and assignment title
in the header and footer section of each page. You are only allowed to insert
page number in the bottom right footer section of each page.
vi. Remember to spell check your assignment.
vii. Margin for each page as follow (use Microsoft Word):

Top : 3.0 cm Footer : 1.25 cm


Bottom : 2.5 cm Header : 1.25 cm
Left : 3.8 cm Gutter : 0 cm
Right : 2.5 cm

Remember to include the assignment cover sheet page, and TOC page. Use and edit the
template softcopy of this pages that is provided.

Report assignment sub-topics is highly recommended for ease of reading, but you should
follow the below basic structure for standardization.

2.0 MARKING CRITERIAS

Your written report assignment work will be graded with the following criteria in mind:

 Originality of work. Plagiarism will result in a FAIL grade being recorded.


 The extent to which the assignment question has been correctly interpreted and
answered.
 Demonstrated understanding of the main concepts of the assignment question.
 Clarity in structure of written.
 The level of communication and professionalism skills demonstrated.

Report assignment submitted in electronic form will not be graded.


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4.0 REPORT CITATIONS & REFERENCING

Citation in text as following example:

Storyboards are also called paper comps (Powell, 2000).

Cite authors in alphabetical order in the references page, and bibliographies page. Separate
the resources according to group of sources. Follow the reference format to cite as below:

BOOK REFERENCES

Author(s). Year Published. Name of book. Publisher, Location Published.

Example as below: Underlined

Langer, A. 2002. Applied Ecommerce: Analysis and Engineering for Ecommerce Systems.
John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York.

Paragraph hanging = 1 cm

INTERNET REFERENCES

Creator's name (if available). Web Page Title. Institution or organization (if available)
[Online] (state image, audio, etc. or simply ‘online’ to indicate an online resource), Date
of access.
URL: <(the Internet address)>
Tab = 1 cm
Example as below:

CIO.com E-Business Research Center [Online] 28th April 2004.


URL: <0000->

Appendix A: Self-Contribution Form (remove this line before send for printing)

Self-Contribution Form

Name : _________________________ ID : _________________________

1. Description of Self Contributions


Task# Tasks assigned Remarks
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2. Lesson learned by completing this assignment (NOT LESS THAN 200 words):

3. Self-Evaluation from lowest 0 mark to highest 10 mark. Justify your evaluation.


Self-evaluation (0-10):
Justification:

Student’s Signature: ( )

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Lecturer’s comment:

End of GROUP Assignment.

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