Module Information
Course Delivery
Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
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Seminars / Tutorials | Tutorial prior to placement |
Other | 2 week placement with suitable organisation |
Assessment
Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
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Semester Assessment | Report (5,000 equivalent) | 80% |
Semester Assessment | Host's Report | 20% |
Supplementary Assessment | Resubmission of Report | 80% |
Supplementary Assessment | Host's Report If not submitted at the time of the first assessment. | 20% |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
* apply records management principles and practices to the achievement of organizational goals and strategies
* formulate and evaluate approaches to assessing organisational needs
* assess the drivers and requirements for records management, including digital records
* critically appraise the level of organisational compliance in the workplace with theoretical best practice
* formulate recommendations for the future development of records management across the organization
* evaluate their own strengths and weaknesses in relation to the skills and competencies now required for the profession
Brief description
The aim of this module is to provide guidance to students in the application of the knowledge they have gained through the taught programme elements by carrying out a project based on their placement.
Content
Unit2: The records: assess how they are managed, how well the current records management system is meeting the organizational needs.
Unit 3:The RM process: formats, access, appraisal and preservation
Unit 4: Strategies for Action: analysis and understanding, strategy itself, persuasion and change.
Module Skills
Skills Type | Skills details |
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Application of Number | N/A |
Communication | Interviewing members of the organisation to locate and assemble the necessary data; presentation by written formal report |
Improving own Learning and Performance | Reflection on own ability to carry out the required methodologies within working environment |
Information Technology | Application of IT skills in the presentation of data |
Personal Development and Career planning | Increased awareness of current issues surrounding the management of recorded information and strategies for addressing them (critical skills for modern information management professionals) |
Problem solving | Analysis of organizational recordkeeping problems in comparison with best practice, recommendations for applicable solutions |
Research skills | Review of best practice, involving gathering techniques and summative skills |
Subject Specific Skills | Development of analytical skills in the synthesis of theory and practice of the management of recorded information |
Team work | N/A |
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 7