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Seminar Course Outline

This document provides information on the "Seminar on Advanced Topics in Information Technology" course offered by Ambo University's Department of Information Technology. The 2-credit, compulsory course aims to provide students with a broad understanding of recent developments in IT research. Students will learn how to identify emerging topics, organize scholarly events, publish work, and review publications. They will also practice literature reviews and identifying problems for a thesis. Assessment involves seminar reports and presentations on selected advanced IT topics.

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Seminar Course Outline

This document provides information on the "Seminar on Advanced Topics in Information Technology" course offered by Ambo University's Department of Information Technology. The 2-credit, compulsory course aims to provide students with a broad understanding of recent developments in IT research. Students will learn how to identify emerging topics, organize scholarly events, publish work, and review publications. They will also practice literature reviews and identifying problems for a thesis. Assessment involves seminar reports and presentations on selected advanced IT topics.

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Ambo University

Department of Information Technology

Course Code MIT7213


Course Title Seminar on Advanced Topics in Information Technology
Credit Hour 2
ECTS
Contact Hours
(per week)
Prerequisite
Year/Semester 2/1
Status of the Compulsory
course
Course Objective Course Description: The motivation for this course lies in the interest
in providing a broad viewpoint on IT by surveying recent
developments, major results, and contemporary hot topics with
applied interest in today’s leading-edge research in IT. The main
focus of this course is on topics of current interest in IT. It also
enables a student to be familiar with professional practices in
seminar, conference, symposium, workshop, and convention, congress
for presentation, publication, communication and articulation in order
to organize such events successfully and professional manner.
Learning Objectives: On successful completion of the course students
will be able to
 identify current research topics in IT and their importance for
development
 organizing scientific and scholarly events for keynote
presentations, discussion and scholarly scientific collaborations
on contemporary issues in IT
 professional publishing, showcasing and indexing scholarly
scientific or research outcomes for larger and global audience
 To develop the capability of students to critically and scientifically
review and evaluate published works
 To initiate with the process of Thesis in problem identification
 To demonstrate and to justify the necessity and role of the
computing problem identified
 To practice with the literature survey and review procedures
Ambo University
Department of Information Technology

Course Code MIT7213


Course Title Seminar on Advanced Topics in Information Technology
Course Contents Chapter 1 How to make a presentation
1.1 Verbal
1.2 Non-Verbal
1.3 LCD based Power Point
Chapter 2 How to write a Seminar report
2.1 Abstract
2.2 Introduction
2.3 Body
2.4 Conclusions
2.5 References &Appendix
Chapter 3 Group Discussion
3.1 Share the work with a group
3.2 Modularization of the work
3.3 Shareware Development
Chapter 4 Communication
4.1 Horizontal
4.2 Vertical
4.3 Upward
4.4 Downward
Chapter 5 Organization of Scholarly Scientific Events i.e. Seminar,
Conferences and publishing Proceedings
5.1 Defining Seminar, Symposium, Conference, Workshop,
Convention, Congress
5.2 Organizational strategy
5.3 Design event website structure & Digital advertising
5.4 Review of Papers/Articles
5.5 Publication of proceedings
5.6 Taking ISSN/ ISBN Numbers, Indexing, Tagging in Digital
world
Chapter 6 Seminar on emerging Topics/Technologies in IT
6.1 Seminar on Advanced Topic 1
6.2 Seminar on Advanced Topic 2
6.3 Seminar on Advanced Topic 3
6.4 Seminar on Advanced Topic 4
6.5 Seminar on Advanced Topic 5
6.6 Seminar on Advanced Topic 6

Assessment/Evaluatio This course is assessed by seminar technical reports and series of


n & Grading System presentations on emerging and selected topics in IT.

References Reference books/ material: Varies as it depends on the selected


topics. It can be referenced from open access knowledge repositories
via internet.

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