Journal of Information Systems Education back issues from October 2008:
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 ...
Enabling Customization through Web Development: An Iterative Study of the Dell Computer Corporation Website
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Throughout the last decade, companies have increased their investment in electronic commerce (EC) by developing and implementing Web-based applications on the Internet. This paper describes a class project to develop a customized computer website which is similar to Dell ...
Gender Differences and Intra-Gender Differences amongst Management Information Systems Students
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Few women major in Management Information Systems (MIS). The purpose of this paper is to examine the reasons for women's underrepresentation in MIS. In addition to examining gender differences, an important and novel goal of this study is to examine intra-gender differences in ...
Learning Human Aspects of Collaborative Software Development
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Collaboration has become increasingly widespread in the software industry as systems have become larger and more complex, adding human complexity to the technological complexity already involved in developing software systems. To deal with this complexity, human-centric software ...
Engaging Students with Constructivist Participatory Examinations in Asynchronous Learning Networks
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT The online participatory exam transforms the traditional exam into a constructivist, cooperative and engaging learning experience. Students learn from designing and answering exam questions, from evaluating their peers' performance, and from reading questions, answers and ...
Controlling Curriculum Redesign with a Process Improvement Model
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT A portion of the curriculum for a Management Information Systems degree was redesigned to enhance the experiential learning of students by focusing it on a three-semester community-based system development project. The entire curriculum was then redesigned to have a ...
Exploring the Importance of Mentoring for New Scholars: A Social Exchange Perspective
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This exploratory study examines the importance of mentor/mentee relationships on faculty development by measuring how social exchange between new faculty members (mentees) in information systems and their former dissertation chairs (mentors) relate to how quickly the new faculty ...
Mapping the MIS Curriculum Based on Critical Skills of New Graduates: An Empirical Examination of IT Professionals
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT MIS curricula research almost always focuses on either curriculum issues or the critical skills required of new MIS graduates, rarely both. This study examines both by determining the critical skills required of new graduates, from the perspective of IT professionals in the ...