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Unit Summary

Unit type

PG Coursework Unit

Credit points

12

AQF level

9

Level of learning

Advanced

Former School/College

Former School of Business and Tourism

Pre-requisites

ITC91001 - IT Entrepreneurship and Innovation AND - Managing Software Development Projects

Unit aim

Provides students with both the theoretical and practical skills to respond to rapidly changing mobile and cloud application development. Students will be able to design, develop and test a cloud-enabled mobile application, as well as identify the risks of privacy, security and ethical use of personal data.

Unit content

1. Case studies of mobile and cloud applications
2. Mobile device architecture and operating systems
3. Cloud service models
4. Methodology and tools for software development of mobile and cloud systems
5. Designing and programming mobile application (app)
6. Enhancing mobile app capabilities using device/internal sensors
7. Data synchronisation in cloud-supported mobile apps
8. Supporting context-awareness and intelligent apps using cloud services
9. App customisations and advanced user interface controllers
10. Performance issues and management
11. Security, privacy, and ethical concerns of managing data
12. Trends in design and development of mobile-cloud technologies

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

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On completion of this unit, students should be able to: GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 analyse opportunities and requirements for developing cloud-enabled mobile applications
2 identify and evaluate recent trends and advances in mobile and cloud technologies
3 develop mobile applications and the supporting cloud services
4 determine and critically assess performance issues, security, privacy and ethical concerns of the proposed mobile application
5 propose solutions to advanced/intelligent mobile app features which can enhance user experience and app’s functionality

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. analyse opportunities and requirements for developing cloud-enabled mobile applications
    • GA4:
  2. identify and evaluate recent trends and advances in mobile and cloud technologies
    • GA4:
  3. develop mobile applications and the supporting cloud services
    • GA2:
  4. determine and critically assess performance issues, security, privacy and ethical concerns of the proposed mobile application
    • GA4:
  5. propose solutions to advanced/intelligent mobile app features which can enhance user experience and app’s functionality
    • GA2:
    • GA5: