Recently added articles from Journal of Information Systems Education:
Learning Experience with Virtual Worlds
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Virtual worlds create a new opportunity to enrich the educational experience through media-rich immersive learning. Virtual worlds have gained notoriety in games such as World of Warcraft (WoW), which has become the most successful online game ever , and in 'general purpose' ...
An On Demand Text-to-Speech Agent
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This Teaching Tip provides a Mcrosoft .NET 2.0 framework application that uses Microsoft Agent® for on demand text-to speech (TTS) capability. One opens the program, then pastes selected text into a textbox to have Mcrosoft Agent® Merlin read, i.e., speak the text. One may also ...
The Recovery Care and Treatment Center: A Database Design and Development Case
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT The advantages of active learning methodologies have been suggested and empirically shown by a number of IS educators. Case studies are one such teaching technique that offers students the ability to think analytically, apply material learned, and solve a real-world problem ....
Five Data Validation Cases
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Data-validation routines enable computer applications to test data to ensure their accuracy, completeness, and conformance to industry or proprietary standards. This paper presents five programming cases that require students to validate five different types of data: (1) simple ...
Online Education Forum - Part Three A Quality Online Educational Experience
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This is the third in a series of three papers about online pedagogy and educational practice as part of the JISE "Online Education Forum." This paper deals with the question: What approaches help assure a quality online educational experience? Clearly achieving quality is the ...