Assignments - Summer Institute 2023

Assignment Name

Weight

Graduate Competencies & Course Learning Outcomes

Learning/reflection diary for Day 1, Day 2, Day 5, Day 6, the first half of Day 7 and Day 9

For each lecture, students will demonstrate their capacity to comprehend and critically reflect upon the content and readings, thereby providing a written summary of their key takeaways, new insights, and lingering questions from the workshop.

Outline one key takeaway from the lecture, covering the following: Describe the takeaway, and how it links to one or more of the perspectives/issues presented in the courses. Why did I find this interesting/surprising? How might this be important (e.g. how/where could this be applied to create value)? What would I need to know to build on this?

(250 words for each lecture takeaway)

 

25%

1.1, 1.4, 32

LO1, LO2, LO5

This assignment and its learning outcomes build towards assignment two.

 

Bibliography for Day 1, Day 2, Day 5, Day 6, the first half of Day 7, and Day 9

For each lecture, identify three further readings to expand your knowledge of the perspective/issue (i.e., should not be from the required readings for the course and two of those should be scientific literature). Present this in the form of an annotated bibliography (i.e., a short summary in 3-6 sentences about the content) organized by workshop/topic using APA citation style.

25%

1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 4.1

LO2. This learning outcome builds upon assignment one.

 

Individual reflection and critical analysis of Blockathon solutions.

a.     Participation in Blockathon 15%

Active engagement within the context of a team throughout the two days of the Blockathon.

b.     Reflection on their own blockathon solution 20%

Write a 1,000-word reflection that describes your team’s solution. How does it bring together the social, data/records, and technical perspectives to create value? How does your solution support one or more of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals? Why is blockchain/DLT key to this?

Reflect upon your solution through the lens of one of the following professional perspectives (information/business/technical/law). What key issue(s) in this domain is your solution addressing? What are its strengths? What are its limitations?

c.     Evaluation of other solutions 15%

Pick two other teams’ Blockathon solutions to evaluate. Write a 1,000-word reflection on what you learned from your analysis of these solutions. What stuck out was especially insightful, and why? What did you think was lacking, or something they could have done better?

 

50% total, see the breakdown on the left.

1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 5.1

LO3, LO4

This assignment takes place at the end of the course and builds upon all of the coursework and the previous assignments.

 

 

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm.


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