Esports Industry and Stakeholders (5 cr)

Objective

Student is able to understand the big picture of esports and the business around it. Understanding functions and motives of doing business behind esports stakeholders. Students gain the ability to make decisions in situations that are not always win-win and to be able to professionally justify those decisions. Enhancing the ability to make an educated guess or foresee possible scenarios and the possible consequences of made decisions.

Content

Esports stakeholders and their role in the industry
Coopetition, Co-destiny and Convergence
Problem solving in different scenarios

Location and time

Course is organized according to timetables provided for students.

Materials

Esports and business related books as supplementary reading. Otherwise all the materials required and needed to complete the course can be found in DevMoodle.

Teaching methods

Contact lectures and assignments to be done in class. DevMoodle used as materials needed to complete the course.

Employer connections

Visiting lecturers planned.

Exam schedules

Exam timetables can be found in DevMoodle.

Student workload

5 credits equal to 135 hours of student's work.

Content scheduling

Lectures, assignments, assignment reviews.

Evaluation scale

0 - 5

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Student is able to create scientifically based material that can be used in teaching. Student is able to implement different kind of learning tasks within the created content. Student is able to give arguments based on the created material and highlight the importance of the subject.

Assessment methods and criteria

Grading criteria can be found in DevMoodle and also in the grading section of this course.