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Volume 22, 2025

Table of Contents: Issues in Informing Science and Informing Technology. Volume 22, 2025

Eli Cohen

Table of Contents for IISIT Volume 22, 2025

IISIT, Informing Science, information technology

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Systematic Literature Review of the Development of Data Science Applications in Healthcare

Anshuman Yashodhar Rangaraj, Theodore P Langdon, Hazem Said

Aim/Purpose.
This study aims to identify the influential factors in the application of Applied Data Science in healthcare.

Background.
The research examines the historical adoption and use of Applied Data Science in the healthcare industry, addressing the specific question: What are the factors that influence the use of Applied Data Science in healthcare throughout the history of information ...

applied computing, life and medical sciences, health informatics

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The Predominant Ethical Issues Around Deep Fake Technology and Fake News on Social Media

Singarila Somanje, John Mangundu

Aim/Purpose
This paper seeks to unearth the benefits of deep fake technology and its potential for application to pursue unethical intentions on social media, thereby negatively impacting individuals and society’s well-being.

Background
The research paper addresses the problem by exploring the ethical implications of deep fake technology and fake news on social media. Through the analysis of ...

social media, ethics, deep fake technology, fake news, artificial intelligence, deep learning

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Predictive Modeling for Identity Theft Detection: A Design Science Approach Using Machine Learning and Historical Data

Charles D Mitchell, Samuel Sambasivam

Aim/Purpose
The proliferation of online banking has led to a significant increase in identity theft and cybercrimes, creating an urgent need to develop more effective predictive models to detect and prevent such fraudulent activities using advanced technological approaches.

Background
This study addresses the critical gap in the existing literature by exploring how historical identity theft v ...

historical financial transactions, big data, machine learning, fraud detection, identity theft

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Leveraging Technology-Driven Nudging for Decision-Making in Criminal Justice - Expert Perspectives

Hansinie M Jayathilake, Amir Reza Asadi, Taiwo Peter Akinremi, Joel K Appiah, Opetunde O Ibitoye, Hazem Said

Aim/Purpose
This study investigates how technology-driven nudging can enhance decision-making quality and consistency in the U.S. criminal justice system, addressing declining public trust.

Background
In today’s digital age, Information Technology (IT) plays a crucial role in improving decision-making in the criminal justice system, especially in the United States. Despite the technological a ...

technology-driven nudging; grounded theory; decision-making; information technology, criminal justice; qualitative research

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Peer Assessment of In-Class Presentations: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of American and Chinese Students in Information Systems Courses

Sung J Shim

Aim/Purpose
This study investigates the reliability of peer assessments for information systems (IS) case study presentations and examines differences between American and Chinese graduate students in evaluating such presentations.

Background
Peer assessments provide diverse perspectives in evaluating student work, but cultural differences may influence assessment patterns. This study explore ...

peer assessment, information systems (IS) education, cultural differences, real-world cases

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Designing and Validating a Comprehensive Institution-Wide DEI Needs Assessment

Nicole A. Buzzetto-Hollywood, Katherine A. Quinn

Aim/Purpose
Institutions with a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) must evaluate their praxes for equity, recognizing that campuses must be inclusive communities that celebrate diversity. Further, teaching and learning experiences should provide mirrors, windows, and doors, have cultural validity, afford multiple mechanisms for student success, be centered around the assets of s ...

DEI, JEDI, diversity, equity and inclusion, culturally responsive teaching, CRT, HBCU, inclusion, intersectional theory, decolonization, inclusive education, critical pedagogy

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Interventions and Iterations to Fortify Small Business Resilience

Krishnakumar Nair

Aim/Purpose
Globally, small businesses are experiencing alarmingly high failure rates. The Business Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (BFMEA) framework was developed as a proactive solution to address this challenge, specifically targeting small technology enterprises representing approximately one-third of the small enterprises sector. This research illustrates how targeted practitioner interve ...

business resilience, intervention, iteration, eADR, BFMEA, thematic analysis, academic-practitioner collaboration

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Factors Influencing Online Identity Falsification Among Israeli Students in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Maor Weinberger, Dan Bouhnik

Aim/Purpose: The research examines the main factors that motivate users to provide falsified details upon website registration and identifies the types of personal details that are most prone to falsification. In addition, the tendency for identity falsification is predicted by examining various factors, such as, sense of online anonymity, privacy concern, and socio-demographic factors. To provide ...

identity falsification, privacy concern, self-disclosure, online anonymity, trust, COVID-19

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Preparing for the Future: An Initial Examination of Generative AI’s Integration into Unified Communications Through the Lens of Microsoft Copilot in Teams

Joy Fluker, Meg Coffin Murray, Jayant Gupta

Aim/Purpose
This study explores how generative AI is being integrated into unified communications (UC) platforms, focusing specifically on Microsoft Copilot as implemented in Microsoft Teams. It explores how generative AI enhances UC functionalities, identifies key adoption challenges, and provides insights into implementation strategies. Unlike traditional technologies that followed a gradual ad ...

generative AI, unified communications, Microsoft Copilot, AI adoption

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Bridging the Generative AI Literacy Gap: A Guide to Introducing Prompt Engineering in University Courses

Meg Coffin Murray

Aim/Purpose
To address the gap in students’ effective use of generative AI tools, this paper presents a framework to introduce university students to the principles and practices of prompt engineering – the art and science of crafting precise and purposeful inputs to guide LLMs in generating accurate and useful outputs. This paper aims to equip students with strategies to interact meaningfully w ...

generative AI, prompt engineering, AI literacy, large language models, higher education

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Embedding Inquiry-Based Learning in a Large Database Course via Paired Assessment

Mali Senapathi

Aim/Purpose
Given the complex and ill-structured nature of modelling problems, database education can benefit from learning approaches such as inquiry-based learning (IBL), where students are encouraged to work collaboratively on modelling, design, and querying tasks. IBL can be embedded into teaching approaches such as pair programming, which is known for its many benefits, for example, improve ...

database education, paired assessment, paired learning, inquiry-based learning, collaborative learning

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Exploring Data Mesh Adoption in Large Organizations

Robert Winter, Tobias Hackl

Aim/Purpose
This paper explores how large incumbent organizations adopt the newly pro-posed data management approach “Data Mesh”. Particularly, this paper explores to which extent data ownership and data governance are shifting from a centralized to a decentralized approach and whether companies take different paths in this transition.

Background
Large incumbent organizations suffer from hi ...

data management, data mesh, data governance, data ownership, data architecture

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Applying Competencies Across the Discipline to Enhance Computational Thinking and Professional Performance

Imani Akin, Matasha MurrellJones, Ramona Burress

Aim/Purpose
This study examines strategies to support the need to enhance computational thinking and professional performance across disciplines through the integration of writing across the curriculum (WAC) in graduate and doctoral programs.

Background
This study explores how combining rhetorical theory and computational thinking can improve students’ communication skills, critical thinkin ...

transdisciplinary collaboration, writing across curriculum, computational thinking, higher education writing, rhetorical theory

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Advancing Federated Machine Learning for Privacy-Preserving Financial Models: Performance Comparison with Standard Machine Learning on Financial Data

Samuel Sambasivam

Aim/Purpose
To explore the potential of Federated Machine Learning (FML) in developing predictive models while ensuring data privacy and security.

Background
The rise of data-driven technologies has led to an increased focus on privacy concerns associated with centralized data storage. FML offers a decentralized approach, allowing organizations to collaboratively train models without sharin ...

federated machine learning, data privacy, centralized machine learning, predictive modeling, security

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Expanding Access and Impact: Culturally Responsive Practices for Hispanic Graduate Students in Virtual Academic Spaces

Jeffery Chernosky

Aim/Purpose
This paper investigates the challenges Hispanic graduate students face in online education, focusing on disparities in satisfaction and academic outcomes. It aims to identify and implement culturally responsive teaching strategies and community-building practices that promote equity and success.

Background
The study addresses the problem by exploring how tailored, culturally gro ...

culturally responsive teaching, online education, Hispanic, graduate students, community, equity

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AI Assistance Variants in Software Development Cycles

Christine Bakke, Joseph Clauss, Emmy Voita, Michael Callahan

Aim/Purpose
With the technology of artificial intelligence (AI) improving every day it is important to find ways to harness AI in the software development life cycle (SDLC). This research demonstrates how AI tools were incorporated into an upper division Computer Science course to assist with development of various memory games.

Background
Since ChatGPT’s release in 2022, other companies ha ...

AI, artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, Claude, Github CoPilot, software development life cycle, SDLC

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Volume 21, 2024

Table of Contents: Issues in Informing Science and Informing Technology. Volume 21, 2024

Eli Cohen

Table of Contents for IISIT Volume 21, 2024

IISIT, Informing Science, information technology

Gamified Cybersecurity Education Through the Lens of the Information Search Process: An Exploratory Study of Capture-the-Flag Competitions [Research-in-Progress]

Albert Tay, Sebastian M Hayes, Drew Wilson, Emmie Hall, Dallin Kaufman

Aim/Purpose.
Capture the Flag (CTF) challenges are a popular form of cybersecurity education where students solve hands-on tasks in a game-like setting. These exercises provide learning experiences with various specific technologies and subjects, as well as a broader understanding of cybersecurity topics. Competitions reinforce and teach problem-solving skills that are applicable in various techn ...

cybersecurity, Capture-the-Flag, information search process, gamification

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Information Technology in Healthcare: A Systematic Literature Review

Amir Reza Asadi, Taiwo P Akinremi, Hazem Said

Aim/Purpose.
The aim of this study is to recognize the factors that contributed to the development of IT in the healthcare industry.

Background.
The healthcare Information Technology (IT) solutions market has experienced remarkable growth, with the healthcare sector emerging as a $303 billion industry. However, despite its substantial size, the healthcare industry has faced criticism for its ...

eHealth, healthcare information systems, healthcare industry

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The Impact of IT Evolution on Industries and Workforce Skills: A Systematic Literature Review

Hansinie M Jayathilake, Hazem Said, Lily Edinam Botsyoe

Aim/Purpose:
To investigate the impact of the evolution of Information Technology on global workforce skills and explore emerging approaches that address the IT talent shortage faced by diverse companies in finding skilled IT workers.

Background:
This paper explores diverse approaches to bridge the skilled IT workers shortage gap, especially in the context of the widening gap following the i ...

information technology, workforce skills, thematic analysis, BERTopic, globalized workforce, lifelong learning, COVID-19 impact

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How Different Are Johnson and Wang? Documenting Discrepancies in the Records of Ethnic Scholars in Scopus

Trang Pham

Aim/Purpose.
This study captures and describes the discrepancies in the performance matrices of comparable Chinese and American scholars as recorded by Scopus.

Background.
The contributions of Chinese scholars to the global knowledge enterprise are increasing, whereas indexing bibliometric databases (e.g., Scopus) are not optimally designed to track their names and record their work precisely ...

ethnic scholars, bibliometric data, research performance, Chinese vs. American scholars

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Perceptions of DEIA, Job Satisfaction, and Leadership Among U.S. Federal Government Employees

Christina Junior, Nicole A. Buzzetto-Hollywood, John H Padgett

Aim/Purpose .
The quantitative comparative ex post facto research study covered in this paper aims to fill gaps in the literature by focusing on whether gender influences perceptions of leadership; diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA); and job satisfaction among federal employees within the Department of Justice using empirical data. The study also explores whether there are rel ...

employee motivation, FEVS, job satisfaction, public service employee satisfaction, DEI, DEIA, leadership, federal government, public service motivation, gender and job satisfaction, leadership and job satisfaction

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The Absorption Experience of Gen Y Beginning Teachers in Elementary Schools, From the Point of View of the Beginning Teachers and Their Mentors

Gila Cohen Zilka

Aim/Purpose .
The present study aimed to understand in depth the experience of identity formation of beginning teachers (BTs), members of Gen Y, in their first year at elementary school, teaching students of Gen Alpha, from the perspective of BTs and their teacher mentors (TMs).

Background.
The purpose of the study was to compare the aspects described by BTs and their mentor teachers of the ...

information and communication technology (ICT), smartphones, internship, beginning teacher, teacher-mentor, identity, interactions, mental well-being, the Gen Alpha, Gen Y, teacher retention, teacher attrition

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Evolution of Information Technology in Industry: A Systematic Literature Review

Siddique Abubakr Muntaka, Joel K Appiah, Hazem Said

Aim/Purpose.
This study addresses the research question: “What are the developmental phases of Information Technology in the industry?” Existing research has explored the impact of Information Technology (IT) on specific industries. However, it is essential to understand the evolution of IT within industries, its influence on the workforce, and technological advancements. Addressing this knowledg ...

information technology, evolution of information technology, industry and information technology, phases of information technology

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Information and Communications Technology and Resilience of First-Generation Students Compared to Students with Educated Parents

Ilan Daniels Rahimi, Gila Cohen Zilka, orit Avidov Ungar

Aim/Purpose.
In this study, we examined, from the perspective of the participants, aspects of information and communications technology (ICT) and resilience, comparing first-generation students in higher education with students whose parents had higher education.

Methodology.
We examined self-image, motivation, happiness, and the use of ICT. This was a quantitative study. Respondents answered ...

higher education, social gaps, multiculturalism, first-generation students, generation Z, generation Y

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Volume 20, 2023

Table of Contents: Issues in Informing Science and Informing Technology. Volume 20, 2023

Eli Cohen

Table of Contents for IISIT Volume 20, 2023

IISIT, Informing Science, information technology

.i - iii

The Academic Discipline of Information Technology: A Systematic Literature Review

Roshanak Basty, Asuman Celik, Hazem Said

Aim/Purpose.
This paper aims to answer the research question, “What are the development phases of the academic discipline of information technology in the United States?” This is important to understand the reason for the growing talent gap in the information technology (IT) industry by reviewing the evolution of information technology across time, how the discipline was formed, evolved, and gai ...

information technology, discipline of information technology, systematic liter-ature review

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The Role of the Discipline of Information Technology: A Systematic Literature Review

Josette R Riep, Kemi Akanbi, Hazem Said

Aim/Purpose.
The goal of this publication is to explore methods for advancing student success in technology related disciplines via improved program classification and selection within higher education.

Background.
Increased demand for information technology (IT) professionals has been cited as a challenge in many fields including cybersecurity and software development. Many highlight the ch ...

information technology, systemic literature review, STEM, discipline, classification

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Pedagogical Training During the COVID-19 Epidemic and Its Two Tracks: Remote and Face-To-Face

Merav Aizenberg

Aim/Purpose.
The study aimed to examine the remote and face-to-face experience of pedagogical training in kindergarten after the third COVID-19 closure in Israel.

Background.
The outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic in 2020 changed the training system, and preservice teachers were required to have their practical experience in the kindergartens both remotely and face-to-face. They had to adapt t ...

remote pedagogical training, face-to-face pedagogical training, preservice kindergarten teachers, kindergartens, COVID-19

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Case-Based Experiential/Immersive Learning for Business Problem-Solving: A Plan in Progress

Stephen J. Andriole

Aim/Purpose.
Business schools need to design, develop and deliver courses that are relevant to business problem-solving. Current pedagogies do not often provide the insight – or experience – necessary to close the gap between theory and practice.

Background.
The paper describes an initiative to design, develop and deliver courses in business-technology problem-solving that thoroughly immerse ...

experiential learning, immersive learning, cases, relevance, business

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Mandatory Gamified Security Awareness Training Impacts on Texas Public Middle School Students: A Qualitative Study

James J Meadows, Samuel Sambasivam

Aim/Purpose.
The problem statement in the proposed study focuses on that, despite the growing recognition that teenagers need to undergo security awareness training, little is known about the impacts security training experts believe implementing a mandatory gamified security awareness training curriculum in public middle schools will have on the long-term security behavior of students in Texas. ...

cybersecurity, security awareness training, gamification, security habits, middle school security training

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Exploring New AI-Based Technologies to Enhance Students’ Motivation

Wissal Neji, Naouel Boughattas, Faten Ziadi

Aim/Purpose.
The aim of this study is to propose a teaching approach based on AI-based chatbot agents and to determine whether the use of this approach increases the students’ motivation.

Background.
Today, chatbots are an integral part of students’ lives where they are used in various contexts. Therefore, we are interested in incorporating these tools into our teaching process in order to pr ...

AI, chatbots, digital tools, student motivation

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Gen Z Self-Portrait: Vitality, Activism, Belonging, Happiness, Self-Image, and Media Usage Habits

Gila Cohen Zilka

Aim/Purpose.
This study examined the self-perception of adolescents and young people aged 17-21 – how they perceived their personal characteristics, self-image, vitality, belonging to a local and global (glocal) society, happiness index and activity, media usage habits in general and smartphones in particular – in other words, it sought to produce a sketch of their character.

Background.
Diff ...

information and communication technology (ICT), smartphones, teenagers, young adults, generation Z, cluster analysis

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Self-Efficacy in Learning English as a Foreign Language Via Online Courses in Higher Education

Ilan Daniels Rahimi, Gila Cohen Zilka

Aim/Purpose.
Higher education institutions face difficulties and challenges when it comes to distance learning. The purpose of this paper is to examine self-efficacy indicators and student satisfaction during online English classes.

Background.
E-learning has been very relevant since the Covid-19 era and is still relevant today. It is possible for students to study regardless of their locati ...

information and communication technology (ICT), 21ct century abilities, social emotional learning, distance learning, digital environment, e-learning

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Corpus Processing of Multi-Word Discourse Markers for Advanced Learners

Chaya Liebeskind, Giedre Valunaite Oleskeviciene

Aim/Purpose.
The most crucial aspects of teaching a foreign language to more advanced learners are building an awareness of discourse modes, how to regulate discourse, and the pragmatic properties of discourse components. However, in different languages, the connections and structure of discourse are ensured by different linguistic means which makes matters complicated for the learner.

Backgr ...

translation, corpus, multi-word expression, discourse, discourse marker

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Educational Card Games: One Way of Assisting the Communication Skills Development of Nursing Students Whose First Language is Not English

Jonathan Marquez, Joy C Penman

Aim/Purpose.
This study seeks to determine the impact of a card game intervention in improving the English verbal communication of nursing students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

Background.
Many international students studying in Australia experience setbacks in their university studies due to English language difficulties. This paper outlines how an educational card ...

card game, nursing, English language learning, ESL, Verbal communication skills

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Volume 19, 2022

Table of Contents: Issues in Informing Science and Informing Technology. Volume 19, 2022

Eli Cohen

Table of Contents for IISIT Volume 19, 2022

IISIT, Informing Science, information technology

.i - iii

Digital Literacy in the Core: The Emerging Higher Education Landscape

Meg Coffin Murray, Jorge Pérez, Joy Fluker

Aim/Purpose: Digital literacy is critical to participation in a contemporary knowledge-based society and is requisite to both academic success and career development. Institutions of higher education have been slow to define, assess, and amplify digital literacy in parallel with advances in the enhancement of reading, writing, and arithmetic literacy. Perhaps as a consequence of the pandemic, awar ...

digital literacy, digital competency, critical digital literacy, digitally centered

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A Classification Schema for Designing Augmented Reality Experiences

Shaun Bangay, Sophie McKenzie

Aim/Purpose: Designing augmented reality (AR) experiences for education, health or entertainment involves multidisciplinary teams making design decisions across several areas. The goal of this paper is to present a classification schema that describes the design choices when constructing an AR interactive experience.

Background: Existing extended reality schema often focuses on single dimensi ...

augmented reality, interactive experiences, design rationale, classification schema

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Retail Quest: Student Perceptions of a Virtual Field Trip App

Mary Lebens

Aim/Purpose: Two popular methods for encouraging active learning are Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Field Trips (VFTs). This exploratory case study examines college students’ perceptions of a prototype AR and VFT app as an active learning strategy.

Background: AR allows students to learn as they physically explore a destination, while VFTs give students the opportunity to visit exciting des ...

Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Field Trip (VFT), active learning, Systems Analysis and Design (SA&D), Science Technology Engineering, and Math (STEM)

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Impact of Gender on Perceived Work Climate in Business Information Systems

Georg Disterer

Aim/Purpose: The low proportion of women currently working in the field of business information systems presents an opportunity to attract more women to this field. For example, in Germany, the proportion of women studying business information systems is currently 21%, compared to 48% in business administration (Statistisches Bundesamt, 2020). Which characteristics make the professional field of b ...

job satisfaction, career goals, work climate, gender, fairness

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The Tutor’s Role in the Online Training of Preservice Teachers: Tutor and Tutee Perspectives

Gila Cohen Zilka

Aim / Purpose
This study examined the perception of the role of tutors in online training of preservice teachers during the COVID period, from the perspective of pre-service teachers and their tutors.

Background
Because of the COVID pandemic, learning in schools was conducted online, therefore preservice teachers’ practicum also took place online, as did the tutoring process.

Methodology
...

clinical training, field experiences, preservice teacher, online teaching practices, COVID-19, practical experience, e-readiness, digital learning literacies, 21st century

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Modern Transdisciplinarity: Results of the Development of the Prime Cause and Initial Ideas

Vladimir Mokiy, Tatiana Lukyanova

Aim/Purpose
This paper focuses on systematizing and rethinking the conformity of modern transdisciplinarity with its prime cause and initial ideas.

Background
The difficulties of implementing transdisciplinarity into science and education are connected with the fact that its generally accepted definition, identification characteristics, and methodological features are still missing. In order ...

transdisciplinarity, transdisciplinary research, systems approach, systems transdisciplinary approach, higher education

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“I Do Better, Feel Less Stress and Am Happier” – A Humanist and Affective Perspective on Student Engagement in an Online Class

Geraldine Torrisi-Steele

Aim/Purpose; Fostering student engagement is one of the great challenges of teaching, especially in online learning environments. An educators’ assumptions and beliefs about what student engagement is and how it manifests will shape the strategies they design to engage students in learning. However, there is no agreement on the definition of concept of student engagement and it re-mains a vague co ...

online learning, student engagement, teaching IT, higher education, human-ism, affective domain, student-teacher connection, classroom inquiry, reflexive teaching practice

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Using Teach Back Tutorials to Overcome Pandemic Learning Gaps

Steven Sherman, Benjamin Larson, Jeffrey A Bohler, E Fran Smith

Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to address the issue of gaps in students’ knowledge at the time they enter a comprehensive Information Systems cap-stone course. This problem of knowledge gaps was exacerbated by the forced remote learning and isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim was to find a technique that would identify and fill those gaps. Ideally, the method would also r ...

knowledge gaps, pandemic, Teach Back, capstone, soft skills, interpersonal skills, curriculum, engagement, tutorials

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Volume 18, 2021

Table of Contents: Issues in Informing Science and Informing Technology. Volume 19, 2022

Eli Cohen

Table of Contents for IISIT Volume 19, 2022

IISIT, Informing Science, information technology

.i - iii

Virtual Instruction Support for Faculty

Laura A. McLaughlin, Joanne Ricevuto

Aim/Purpose: This research study explores the challenges, successes, and supports de-sired in implementing virtual learning following a survey of faculty for their experiences and interests. Faculty in higher education need quick, practical tools and strategies to enhance teaching and learning in a virtual classroom.
Background The sudden and ongoing COVID-19 pandemic had created an urgency to tr ...

virtual teaching and learning, flexibility, mindsets

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Technologies for Teaching in an Online Environment

Christina Ellis, Mae Lane, Tori Hollas, Jaime Coyne

Aim/Purpose: The authors provide different technology applications useful in online instruction in addition to providing effective strategies for use in a virtual environment.

Background: Last year, educators were forced to move their instruction online almost overnight. Many were not prepared to teach effectively in a virtual environment.

Contribution: This paper serves as a resource to ed ...

online instruction, technology applications, strategies

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An Empirical Examination of the Effects of CTO Leadership on the Alignment of the Governance of Big Data and Information Security Risk Management Effectiveness

Shannon Block, Steven Munkeby, Samuel Sambasivam

Aim/Purpose: Board of Directors seek to use their big data as a competitive advantage. Still, scholars note the complexities of corporate governance in practice related to information security risk management (ISRM) effectiveness.

Background: While the interest in ISRM and its relationship to organizational success has grown, the scholarly literature is unclear about the effects of Chief Techno ...

big data, CTO leadership styles, information security risk management effectiveness, and digital transformation

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Machine Learning-based Flu Forecasting Study Using the Official Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Twitter Data

Ali Wahid, Steven Munkeby, Samuel Sambasivam

Aim/Purpose: In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) tracks the disease activity using data collected from medical practice's on a weekly basis. Collection of data by CDC from medical practices on a weekly basis leads to a lag time of approximately 2 weeks before any viable action can be planned. The 2-week delay problem was addressed in the study by creating mac ...

CDC, correlation, flu trends, machine learning, regression analysis

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Framing the Innovation Mindset

Laura A. McLaughlin, James McLaughlin

Aim/Purpose: To build the skills of innovation, we must first establish a framework for the belief system that surrounds effective innovation practice. In building any belief system, sometimes outdated beliefs need to be replaced with better, more carefully researched ideas. One such belief, discovered in our research and elsewhere, is that creativity is innate and that great ideas arise through ...

creativity, ideation, innovation, mindset, professional development, problem solving, training

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The Role of Service-Learning in Information Systems Education

Tana Feyt, Gwamaka Mwalemba

Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study is to explore the role of service-learning in Information Systems (IS) education.

Background: While the use of modern technologies presents many operational benefits, such as the lowering of the costs, it may also aggravate social-economic is-sues. IS professionals should account for these issues as well as exhibit the skills demanded by modern-day employers. ...

information systems, service-learning, education, reflection, critical thinking, social awareness, teamwork, community

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Zooming?! - Higher Education Faculty Perspectives

Moshe Leiba, Ruti Gafni

Aim/Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic demanded an immediate and massive adaptation of higher education to distance learning. Teachers had to transform from face-to-face to distance teaching, with insufficient pedagogical and technological knowledge and resources. This study aims to capture higher education faculty experiences in the very early stages of the crisis-prompted transition into synchronous ...

Distance learning, Online learning, COVID-19, e-learning, Faculty, Higher education

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Distance Learning During the COVID-19 Crisis as Perceived by Preservice Teachers

Gila Cohen Zilka

Aim/Purpose: This study examined learning during the COVID-19 crisis, as perceived by preservice teachers at the time of their academic studies and their student teaching experience.

Background: The COVID-19 crisis is unexpected. On one hand, it disrupted learning in all learning frameworks, on the other, it may create a change in learning characteristics even after the end of the crisis. This ...

distance learning, digital environment, social emotional learning – SEL, digital literacy, e-readiness, m-learning, teacher presence, social presence, Zoom fatigue, COVID-19

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Findings From an Examination of a Class Purposed to Teach the Scientific Method Applied to the Business Discipline

Nicole A. Buzzetto-Hollywood

Aim/Purpose: This brief paper will provide preliminary insight into an institutions effort to help students understand the application of the scientific method as it applies to the business discipline through the creation of a dedicated, required course added to the curriculum of a mid-Atlantic minority-serving institution. In or-der to determine whether the under-consideration course satisfies de ...

first generation college students, transdisciplinary education, scientific method in the business discipline, scientific reasoning in management education, scientific literacy, management education, business education, rubric, student learning outcomes, assessment of student learning, HBCU

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Online Teaching With M-Learning Tools in the Midst of Covid-19: A Reflection Through Action Research

Minh Q. Huynh, Eraj Khatiwada

Aim/Purpose: In the midst of COVID-19, classes are transitioned online. Instructors and students scramble for ways to adapt to this change. This paper shares an experience of one instructor in how he has gone through the adaptation.

Background: This section provides a contextual background of online teaching. The instructor made use of M-learning to support his online teaching and adopted th ...

COVID-19 transition, online teaching, UTAUT, web app, participant-observer, action research

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Volume 17, 2020

Table of Contents: Issues in Informing Science and Informing Technology. Volume 17, 2020

Eli Cohen

Table of Contents for IISIT Volume 17, 2020

IISIT, Informing Science, information technology

.i - iii

Over Mountain Tops and Through the Valleys of Postgraduate Study and Research: A Transformative Learning Experience from Two Supervisees’ Perspectives

Joy Penman, Glenna C Lear

Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to illuminate the learning that happens in assuming a supervisee’s role during the postgraduate study.

Background: The facilitators and barriers students encountered while pursuing postgraduate studies, strategies to achieve success in postgraduate studies, and how to decrease attrition rates of students, have been sufficiently explored in literature. How ...

postgraduate study, supervisee, autoethnographic reflection, supervisory relationship, transformation

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Design of a Knowledge Management System for the Research-Teaching Nexus: Evidence from Institutional Audit Reports

Alrence S Halibas, Rolou Lyn Maata, Mohamed Abdul Kader Varusai, Ali Al-Badi, Peyman Nouraey

Aim/Purpose: The need for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to maximize the use of their intellectual property and strategic resources for research and teaching has become ever more evident in recent years. Furthermore, little attention is paid in developing an enabling system that will facilitate knowledge transfer in the Research-Teaching Nexus (RTN). Hence, this study assesses the current st ...

knowledge management, knowledge management system, research-teaching nexus, social computing, tacit knowledge

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Volume 16, 2019

Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology - Table of Contents Volume 16, 2019

Eli Cohen

Table of Contents for IISIT Volume 16, 2019

IISIT, Informing Science, information technology, InSITE

. i - iv

How to Program a Chatbot – An Introductory Project and Student Perceptions

Ju Long, Juntao Yuan, Hsun-Ming Lee

Aim/Purpose: One of the most fascinating developments in computer user interfaces in recent years is the rise of “chatbots”. Yet extent information system (IS) curriculum lacks teaching resources on chatbots programming..

Background: To better prepare students for this new technological development and to enhance the IS curriculum, we introduce a project that teaches students how to program si ...

information system education, chatbot, artificial intelligence, student perceptions

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Implications of Updating Digital Literacy – A Case Study in an Optometric Curriculum

Jo Coldwell-Neilson, James A Armitage, Ryan J Wood-Bradley, Blair Kelly, Alex Gentle

Aim/Purpose: The aim of this project was to explore a method to enable an updated under-standing of digital literacy to be implemented in curricula in an environment of an existing, but outdated, understanding of digital literacy.
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Background: The changing healthcare environment increasingly emphasizes the importance of digital literacy skills; therefore academics in the optometry discipline at ...

optometry, digital literacy, graduate learning outcomes, health professional education

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Fostering Self and Peer Learning Inside and Outside the Classroom through the Flipped Classroom Approach for Postgraduate Students

Eugenia M. W. Ng

Aim/Purpose: The flipped classroom approach is one of the most popular active learning approaches. This paper explores the effectiveness of a new pedagogy, known as FOCUSED, for postgraduate students.

Background: The flipped classroom approach is a trendy blended learning pedagogy which capitalizes on the flexibility of online learning and the stimulating nature of face-to-face discussion. This ...

blended learning, flipped classroom, online learning, peer interactions, post-graduate students

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Integrating Drone Technology in STEM Education: A Case Study to Assess Teachers’ Readiness and Training Needs

Wing Shui Ng, Gary Cheng

Aim/Purpose: Drone technology has been increasingly used in education. This paper reports a study of assessing teachers’ readiness and training needs for using drone technology in their teaching.

Background: New technology promotes new ways of practices. With the sophisticated design and the affordance to explore our world from a bird’s eye perspective, a drone has been increasingly used to sup ...

drone, unmanned aerial vehicle, teacher education, STEM education, TPCK

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Self-efficacy, Challenge, Threat and Motivation in Virtual and Blended Courses on Multicultural Campuses

Revital Cohen, Ilan Rahimi, Gila Cohen Zilka

Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine the sense of challenge and threat, negative feelings, self-efficacy, and motivation among students in a virtual and a blended course on multicultural campuses and to see how to afford every student an equal opportunity to succeed in academic studies.

Background: Most academic campuses in Israel are multicultural, with a diverse student body. ...

multiculturalism, threat, challenge, motivation, virtual course, blended course, transactional distance

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Agile Requirements Engineering: An Empirical Analysis and Evidence from a Tertiary Education Context

Meetu Thomas, Mali Senapathi

Aim/Purpose: The study describes empirical research into agile Requirements Engineering (RE) practices based on an analysis of data collected in a large higher education organization.

Background: Requirements Engineering (RE) in agile development contexts is considerably different than in traditional software development. The field of agile RE is still nascent where there is a need to evaluat ...

agile requirements engineering, case study, empirical, agile, Scrum, tertiary edu-cation

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Assessing the Graphic Questionnaire Used in Digital Literacy Training

Elena Maceviciute, Thomas D. Wilson, Zinaida Manžuch

Aim/Purpose: To capture digital training experiences, the paper introduces a novel data collection method – a graphic questionnaire. It aims to demonstrate the opportunities and limitations of this tool for collecting feedback from socially disadvantaged participants of digital literacy training about their progress.

Background: In training of digital skills for disadvantaged audiences through ...

digital literacy, digital divide, graphic questionnaire, elderly persons, people with hearing impairment, children, assessment

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Factors Influencing Women’s Decision to Study Computer Science: Is It Context Dependent?

Sarah Genut, Bnaya Ori, Yifat Ben-David Kolikant

Aim/Purpose: Our research goal was to examine the factors that motivate women to enroll in Computer Science (CS) courses in order to better understand the small number of women in the field of CS.

Background: This work is in line with the growing interest in better understanding the problem of the underrepresentation of women in the field of CS.

Methodology: We focused on a college that diff ...

women, underrepresentation, computer science, culture, Haredi

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Combining Summative and Formative Evaluation Using Automated Assessment

John English, Tammy English

Aim/Purpose: Providing both formative and summative assessment that allows students to learn from their mistakes is difficult in large classes. This paper describes an automated assessment system suitable for courses with even 100 or more students.

Background: Assessment is a vital part of any course of study. Ideally students should be given formative assessment with feedback during the cour ...

automated assessment, formative and summative evaluation, self-paced learning, feedback, ‘little and often’ assessment

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Autoethnography of the Cultural Competence Exhibited at an African American Weekly Newspaper Organization

Erik Bean

Aim/Purpose: Little is known of the cultural competence or leadership styles of a minority owned newspaper. This autoethnography serves to benchmark one early 1990s example.

Background: I focused on a series of flashbacks to observe an African American weekly newspaper editor-in-chief for whom I reported to 25 years ago. In my reflections I sought to answer these questions: How do minorities i ...

cultural competence, microaggression, racism, prejudice, African American, newspapers, leadership, journalism, autoethnography, epistemology, flashbacks, reflection

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Business Priorities Driving BYOD Adoption: A Case Study of a South African Financial Services Organization

Jacques Ophoff, Steve Miller

Aim/Purpose: Bring your own device (BYOD) provides opportunities for both the organization and employees, but the adoption of BYOD also introduces risks. This case study of an organization’s BYOD program identifies key positive and negative influences on the adoption decision.

Background: The consumerization of IT introduced the BYOD phenomenon into the enterprise environment. As mobile and Int ...

Bring your own device (BYOD), IT management, benefits, risks, Technology-Organization-Environment framework, case study, financial services, South Africa

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Transition to First Year University Study: A Qualitative Descriptive Study on the Psychosocial and Emotional Impacts of a Science Workshop

Jyothi Thalluri, Joy Penman

Aim/purpose
The purpose of this article is to discuss the psychosocial and emotional outcomes of an introductory health science workshop designed to support and assist incoming health science students before starting their university study.

Background
For the past two decades, a South Australian university offered an on-campus face to face workshop titled ‘Preparation for Health Sciences’ to ...

transition to university, first year, psychosocial, anxious

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Virtually There: The Potential, Process and Problems of Using 360° Video in the Classroom

Sophie McKenzie, Justin Rough, Aaron Spence, Nick Patterson

Aim/Purpose: This paper presents an exploratory case study into using 360° videos to present small segments of lecture content for IT students in an Australian University. The aim of this study was to understand; what is the impact of incorporating 360° videos into class content for students and teaching staff? In this study the 360° videos are described as “learning atoms”. Learning atoms are sho ...

virtual reality, students, improving classroom teaching

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Automatic Detection and Classification of Dental Restorations in Panoramic Radiographs

Talia Yeshua, Ya'akov Mandelbaum, Ragda Abdalla-Aslan, Chen Nadler, Laureen Cohen, Levana Zemour, Daniel Kabla, Ori Gleisner, Isaac Leichter

Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study was to develop a prototype of an information-generating computer tool designed to automatically map the dental restorations in a panoramic radiograph.

Background: A panoramic radiograph is an external dental radiograph of the oro-maxillofacial region, obtained with minimal discomfort and significantly lower radiation dose compared to full mouth intra-oral rad ...

medical information, panoramic images, dental restorations, radiologic informative report, machine learning, computer vision, image processing

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Technology in the Classroom: Teachers’ Technology Choices in Relation to Content Creation and Distribution

Suzanne l Sackstein, Linda Spark, Bryan Turner

Aim/Purpose: Teachers are being asked to integrate mobile technologies into their content creation and distribution tasks. This research aims to provide an understanding of teachers taking on this process and whether the use of technology has influenced their content creation and distribution in the classroom.

Background: Many claim that the use of technology for content creation and distribut ...

task-technology fit, education technology, content creation, content distribution, technology choices, teachers

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The Competencies Required for the BPA Role: An Analysis of the Kenyan Context

Elizabeth W Wamicha, Lisa F Seymour

Aim/Purpose: This study aims to answer the research question titled What are the competencies required for the Business Process Analyst (BPA) role in organizations with ERP systems in Kenya. Through 4 hypotheses, this study focuses on two specific aspects: (1) Enhancing BPM Maturity and (2) ERP implementation.

Background: The emergence of complex systems and complex processes in organizations i ...

enterprise systems, BPA competencies, business process analyst, context

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Learning Entrepreneurship through Virtual Multicultural Teamwork

Anat Goldstein, Ruti Gafni

Aim/Purpose: This paper explores the benefits and challenges of experiencing virtual multi-cultural teamwork in order to learn entrepreneurship.

Background: Entrepreneurial eco-system usually requires working in international, virtual multi-cultural diverse teams. Higher education institutes are trying to educate future generation of entrepreneurs, coping with challenges derived from the virtua ...

entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial learning, multicultural, virtual, global team-work

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Understanding Online Learning Based on Different Age Categories

Danielle Morin, Hamed Safaee Fard, Raafat George Saadé

Aim/Purpose: To understand readiness of students for learning in online environments across different age groups.

Background: Online learners today are diverse in age due to increasing adult/mature students who continue their higher education while they are working. Understanding the influence of the learners’ age on their online learning experience is limited.

Methodology: A survey methodol ...

online learning, readiness, age, motivation, self-efficacy, anxiety

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Transforming a First-year Accounting Course Using a Blended Learning Pathway

Mathews Nkhoma, Clara A. Nkhoma, Susan Thomas, Long Tu Tu, Nha Quoc Le

Aim/Purpose: Blended learning can transform students experience and learning in higher education. Although the literature extensively explores benefits of blended learning, limited research exists to provide a detailed design principle for implementing instructional activities in blended courses and its usage as tool to influence learning outcomes for second language first year accounting learners ...

learning management system, learning pathway, community of practice, independent learning, content analysis, second language learners

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Emoji Identification and Prediction in Hebrew Political Corpus

Chaya Liebeskind

Aim/Purpose: Any system that aims to address the task of modeling social media communication need to deal with the usage of emojis. Efficient prediction of the most likely emoji given the text of a message may help to improve different NLP tasks.

Background: We explore two tasks: emoji identification and emoji prediction. While emoji prediction is a classification task of predicting the emojis ...

emoji prediction, machine learning, social media, supervised learning

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An Examination of the Barriers to Leadership for Faculty of Color at U.S. Universities

Sydney Freeman Jr., Karen Krier, Ahmed A Al-Asfour, Russell Thacker

Aim/Purpose: The aim and purpose of this study is to understand why there is a dearth of faculty of color ascending to senior levels of leadership in higher education institutions, and to identify strategies to increase the representation of faculty of color in university senior administrative positions.

Background: There is a lack of faculty of color in senior level academic administrative pos ...

leadership development, higher education administration, faculty of color, glass ceiling, critical race theory

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Grit and Persistence: Findings from a Longitudinal Study of Student Performance

Nicole A. Buzzetto-Hollywood, Bryant C. Mitchell

Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine whether grit was a contributing factor to student persistence and success at minority serving institutions.

Background: A number of studies conducted in the past fifteen years have concluded that grit is a positive predictor of achievement across many domains. But, is grit really the ultimate panacea for student success? This longitudinal stud ...

grit, persistence to graduation, student retention, graduation rates, business education, student success, first generation college students, HBCU, minority learners, UMES, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, persistence and perseverance, grit in education

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Volume 15, 2018

Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology - Table of Contents Volume 15, 2018

Eli Cohen

Table of Contents for IISIT Volume 15, 2018

IISIT, Informing Science, information technology, InSITE

. i - v

Impact of Mathematics on the Theoretical Computer Science Course Units in the General Degree Program in Computer Science at Sri Lankan State Universities

Sritharan Thambithurai

Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify how Advanced level Mathematics and Mathematics course units offered at university level do impact on the academic performance of theoretical Computer Science course units.

Background: In Sri Lankan state universities, students have been enrolled only from the Physical Science stream to do a degree program in Computer Science. In addition to ...

theoretical computer science courses, academic performance, discrete mathematics

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Virtual Pathology Learning Resource: A Promising Strategy in Teaching Pathology to Allied Health Science Students

Jyothi Thalluri, Joy Penman

Aim/Purpose: The objective of this study was to concept test a new instructional aid called Virtual Pathology Learning Resource (VPLR), which was used as a vehicle to communicate information and enhance teaching and learning of basic sciences (Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology) to allied health science students at a South Australian university.

Background: Pathology was traditionally taught usi ...

virtual learning, pathology, higher education, allied health science students, tissue specimens, case scenarios, medical radiation

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Changing Paradigms of Technical Skills for Data Engineers

Robert Thomas Mason

Aim/Purpose: This paper investigates the changing paradigms for technical skills that are needed by Data Engineers in 2018.

Background: A decade ago, data engineers needed technical skills for Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS), such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. With the advent of Hadoop and NoSQL Databases in recent years, Data Engineers require new skills to support the larg ...

data engineer, data scientist, data science

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Predicting Suitable Areas for Growing Cassava Using Remote Sensing and Machine Learning Techniques: A Study in Nakhon-Phanom Thailand

Joseph K Mbugua, WATANYOO Suksa-ngiam

Aim/Purpose: Although cassava is one of the crops that can be grown during the dry season in Northeastern Thailand, most farmers in the region do not know whether the crop can grow in their specific areas because the available agriculture planning guideline provides only a generic list of dry-season crops that can be grown in the whole region. The purpose of this research is to develop a predictiv ...

geospatial, remote sensing, machine learning, suitability, cassava prediction

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Medical Image Security Using Quantum Cryptography

Olufunso Dayo Alowolodu, Gabriel K Adelaja, Boniface K Alese, Olufunke Catherine Olayemi

Aim/Purpose: Medical images are very sensitive data that can be transferred to medical laboratories, professionals, and specialist for referral cases or consultation. Strict security measures must be utilized to keep these data secured in computer networks when transferred to another party. On a daily basis, unauthorized users derive ways to gain access to sensitive patient medical information.
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medical image, quantum cryptography, security, quantum key distribution

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Increasing Intrinsic Motivation of Programming Students: Towards Fix and Play Educational Games

Selvarajah Mohanarajah

Aim/Purpose: The objective of this research is to investigate the effectiveness of educational games on learning computer programming. In particular, we are examining whether allowing students to manipulate the underlying code of the educational games will increase their intrinsic motivation.

Background: Young students are fond of playing digital games. Moreover, they are also interested in creat ...

educational games, games based learning, learning programming

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Place Determinants for the Personalization-Privacy Tradeoff among Students

Maor Weinberger, Dan Bouhnik

Aim/Purpose: This exploratory study investigates the influential factors of users’ decisions in the dilemma of whether to agree to online personalization or to protect their online privacy.

Background: Various factors related to online privacy and anonymity were considered, such as user’s privacy concern on the Web in general and particularly on social networks, user online privacy literacy, and ...

online privacy behavior, online personalization, privacy paradox, privacy concern, online privacy literacy, online privacy self-efficacy

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The Role of Informing Systems in Securing Sanity and Wisdom of the Globalizing Society in the Context of Civilization Sustainability in the 21st Century: The Case of Poland

Andrew S Targowski, Henryk Krawczyk

Aim/Purpose: To monitor Sustainability Development Goals (SDG) established by the United Nations through the hierarchical architecture of informing systems

Background: The paper discusses the case of Poland and its Gdansk region

Contribution: The solution combines the big-picture of civilization with small-picture of a nation, regions, cities, and firms

Findings: The presented solution can be i ...

sustainability, globalizing society, sustainability development goals, informing systems, population bomb, ecological bomb, strategic resources depletion bomb

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Decision Support Information System for Urban Lighting

Yahel Giat, Michael Dreyfuss

Aim/Purpose: This paper describes and information system for the maintenance and management of municipal lighting systems that also serves as a decision support tool for reducing power consumption on urban lighting.

Background: Many municipalities are financially constrained and unable to invest in improving their lighting infrastructure. We propose a very efficient and inexpensive way to set up ...

energy efficiency, municipal budget, integer programming, optimization

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From Ignorance Map to Informing PKM4E Framework: Personal Knowledge Management for Empowerment

Ulrich Schmitt

Aim/Purpose: The proposed Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) for Empowerment (PKM4E) Framework expands on the notions of the Ignorance Map and Matrix to support the educational and informing concept of a PKM system-in-progress.

Background: The accelerating information abundance is depleting the very attention our cognitive capabilities are able to master, contributing to widening individual and ...

personal knowledge management, knowledge management, knowledge society, knowledge worker, informing science, ignorance matrix, cumulative synthesis, chance discovery, abduction, memes, knowcations

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Changes in Public Institutions as a Function of Technology and Its Impact on Society

Josueth A Meza

Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this article is to establish the different impacts of technological changes in institutions generating irrevocable changes in today’s society.

Background: Technological changes have had a positive impact on many aspects of everyday life today, and it is natural that both public and private institutions benefit from this reality.

Methodology: The research method used i ...

technological changes, electronic government, information and communication technology

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Authentic Assessment Design in Accounting Courses: A Literature Review

Clara A. Nkhoma, Mathews Nkhoma, Long Tu Tu

Aim/Purpose: Authentic assessments offer students the opportunity to develop skills that implement the formal learning they receive in the classroom. Although there is a need for accounting graduates to possess a plethora of skills to equip them for success, there is a shortage of literature that focuses on authentic assessment design for accounting courses. This paper aims to address this gap by ...

reflective journals, critical thinking, accounting education, graduate-attributes, problem-based learning, work –integrated learning

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A Data Science Enhanced Framework for Applied and Computational Math

Kirby McMaster, Samuel Sambasivam, Brian Rague, Stuart L Wolthuis

Aim/Purpose: The primary objective of this research is to build an enhanced framework for Applied and Computational Math. This framework allows a variety of applied math concepts to be organized into a meaningful whole.

Background: The framework can help students grasp new mathematical applications by comparing them to a common reference model.

Methodology: In this research, we measure the ...

framework, applied math, computational math, data science, concordance

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How to Design Accounting Video Lectures to Recover Lost Time

Thando Loliwe

Aim/Purpose: The objective of this study is to understand how video lectures of the same length and content as the current face-to-face lectures can be designed and implemented to have a positive effect on student performance, particularly when there is a campus shutdown.

Background: In a number of South African universities protests by the students are on the increase. Often, they lead to the ca ...

video lectures, organisation and design of videos, quality of the videos and content, student performance, quasi-experimental design

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An Analytical Investigation of the Characteristics of the Dropout Students in Higher Education

Yehia Mortagy, Seta Boghikian-Whitby, Ibrahim Helou

Aim/Purpose: Student dropout in higher education institutions is a universal problem. This study identifies the characteristics of dropout. In addition, it develops a mathematical model to predict students who may dropout.

Methodology: The paper develops a mathematical model to predict students who may dropout. The sample includes 555 freshmen in a non-profit private university. The study uses ...

dropouts, attrition, persistence, retention, higher education

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Volume 14, 2017

Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology - Table of Contents Volume 14, 2017

Eli Cohen

Table of Contents for IISIT Volume 14, 2017

IISIT, informing Science, information technology, InSITE

i - iii

Executive Higher Education Doctoral Programs in the United States: A Demographic Market-Based Analysis

Sydney Freeman Jr., Gracie Forthun

Aim/Purpose: Executive doctoral programs in higher education are under-researched. Scholars, administers, and students should be aware of all common delivery methods for higher education graduate programs.
Background This paper provides a review and analysis of executive doctoral higher education programs in the United States.

Methodology: Executive higher education doctoral programs analyze ...

higher education, executive, graduate programs

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Can Learners Become Teachers? Evaluating the Merits of Student Generated Content and Peer Assessment

David E Murray, Tanya J. McGill, Danny Toohey, Nik Thompson

Aim/Purpose: The aim of this project was to explore student perceptions of the value of both the creation of video content and exposure to other students’ work though peer assessment and inclusion of exemplars as unit material.

Background: The research was in a first year information technology flipped-learning unit, where the assessment involved students developing video presentations that wer ...

student generated, peer review, flipped learning, peer assessment

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The Impact of a University Experience Program on Rural and Regional Secondary School Students: Keeping the Flame Burning

Joy Penman, Jyothi Thalluri

Aim/Purpose: The uptake of university by regional students has been problematic for various reasons. This paper discusses a program, initiated by a South Australian regional university campus, aimed at attracting regional students into higher education.

Background: A qualitative descriptive approach to study was used to determine the value of the program on participating students and school sta ...

university participation, increasing university aspirations, Year 10 students, regional university experience

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Hybrid App Approach: Could It Mark the End of Native App Domination?

Minh Q. Huynh, Prashant Ghimire, Donny Truong

Aim/Purpose: Despite millions of apps on the market, it is still challenging to develop a mobile app that can run across platforms using the same code.

Background: This paper explores a potential solution for developing cross platform apps by presenting the hybrid app approach.

Methodology: The paper first describes a brief evolution of the different mobile app development approaches and ...

hybrid apps, mobile app development, cross-platform web app, Ionic framework

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The Workforce for the 21st Century

Henry O'Lawrence

Aim/Purpose: In today’s changing economy, economic growth depends on career and technical programs for skill training.

Background: This study discusses the key area in promoting individual learning and skill training and discusses the importance of career education and training as a way of promoting economic growth.

Methodology : This study uses a qualitative study approach to investigate ...

workforce development, technology, unemployment and employment growth, labor force, education and job training, economic growth and instructional technology

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Ransomware: A Research and a Personal Case Study of Dealing with this Nasty Malware

Azad Ali

Aim/Purpose : Share research finding about ransomware, depict the ransomware work in a format that commonly used by researchers and practitioners and illustrate personal case experience in dealing with ransomware.

Background: Author was hit with Ransomware, suffered a lot from it, and did a lot of research about this topic. Author wants to share findings in his research and his experience in de ...

Ransomware, Malware, Crypto 3, Crypto 4, Computer ransom

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The Elements Way: Empowering Parents, Educators, and Mentors in the Age of New Media

Gila Cohen Zilka

Aim/Purpose: This study was designed to examine the effectiveness of mentor’s work with immigrant children and adolescents at risk, using the Elements Way.

Background: The New Media offers our “screen kids” a lot of information, many behavioral models, and a new type of social communication. The Elements Way is an educational method designed to enhance openness, development, breakthroughs, goa ...

screen kids, empowering, new media, immigrant children, children at risk, mentors, the Elements Way

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Assessing the Affordances of SimReal+ and their Applicability to Support the Learning of Mathematics in Teacher Education

Said Hadjerrouit

Aim/Purpose: Assess the affordances and constraints of SimReal+ in teacher education
Background There is a huge interest in visualizations in mathematics education, but there is little empirical support for their use in educational settings

Methodology: Single case study with 22 participants from one class in teacher education. Quantitative and qualitative methods to collect students’ respons ...

pedagogical affordances, technological affordances, SimReal+, visualization tool

121 - 138

Innovating and Entrepreneurial Initiatives: Some Cases of Success

Marta Machín, Carmen De Pablos Heredero

Aim/Purpose: To understand the change of entrepreneurial initiatives by analysing some new initiatives that came up the last years based on IT enabled business models

Background: The theme is described from an educational perspective by offering examples of successful entrepreneurship initiatives

Methodology: Description of some cases: Waynabox, Lock up, Uber, Pinterest

Contribution: Thi ...

entrepreneurial initiatives, case study, customer experiences, knowledge society

139 - 161

Collaboration in Multi-stakeholder, Multi-cultural Organizational Environments

Douglas A Straka

Aim/Purpose: Governments, private business, and academia have become increasingly aware of the importance of collaboration in multi-stakeholder, multicultural environments. This is due to the globalization and (developing) mutual relationships with other global partners, due to the often varying visions and goals between the respective organizations in managing projects that span those environmen ...

cultural communication, stakeholder theory, cultural competence

163 - 175

The Use of Kanban to Alleviate Collaboration and Communication Challenges of Global Software Development

Maureen Tanner, Marcelo Edgar Dauane

Aim/Purpose: This paper aims to describe how various Kanban elements can help alleviate two prominent types of challenges, communication and collaboration in Global Software Development (GSD).

Background: Iterative and Lean development methodologies like Kanban have gained significance in the software development industry, both in the co-located and globally distributed contexts. However, litt ...

Kanban, lean software development, global software development, communication challenges, collaboration challenges

177 - 197

Representations of Practice – Distributed Sensemaking Using Boundary Objects

Inge Hermanrud, Dorthe Eide

Aim/Purpose: This article examines how learning activities draw on resources in the work context to learn.
Background The background is that if knowledge no longer is seen mainly as objects, but processes, how then to understand boundary objects? Our field study of learning activities reveals the use of pictures, documents and emotions for learning in the geographically distributed Norwegian Lab ...

learning in organizations, network of practice, sense making, learning as prac-tice. boundary objects

199 - 218

Entertaining Whilst Defacing Websites: Psychological Games for Hackers

Ashish K Das, Quynh Thi Nguyen, Susan Thomas

Aim/Purpose: This study aims to investigate various characteristics from both victims as defaced websites and defacers that linked to a risk of being defaced through a set of descriptive analysis.

Background: The current figures from a spectrum of sources, both academic and non-academic reports, proved a progressive increase of website defacement attacks to numerous organisations.

Methodolog ...

defacement, re-defacement, entertainment and defacer

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Volume 13, 2016

Flipped Classroom: A Comparison Of Student Performance Using Instructional Videos And Podcasts Versus The Lecture-Based Model Of Instruction

Retta Guy , Gerald Marquis

The authors present the results of a study conducted at a comprehensive, urban, coeducational, land-grant university. A quasi-experimental design was chosen for this study to compare student performance in two different classroom environments, traditional versus flipped. The study spanned 3 years, beginning fall 2012 through spring 2015. The participants included 433 declared business majors who s ...

flipped classroom, instructional videos, podcasts, student performance, traditional lecture, video-taped lectures

1 - 13

The Flipped Classroom: Two Learning Modes that Foster Two Learning Outcomes

Eugenia M. W. Ng

The study involved student teachers enrolled in early childhood teaching at a teacher training institute in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Seventy-four students participated in flipped classroom activities during their first semester of study. Students were told to learn from online videos related to using image editing software in their own time and pace prior to the next class. When th ...

flipped classroom, generic skills, online videos, photo editing, student teacher

15 - 23

The Use, Impact, and Unintended Consequences of Mobile Web-Enabled Devices in University Classrooms

Kevin A. Johnston

The impact that mobile web-enabled devices have had on the lives and behavior of university students has been immense. Yet, many of the models used in the classrooms have remained unchanged. Although a traditional research approach of examining the literature, developing a methodology, and so on is followed, this paper’s main aim is to inform practitioners on observations and examples from courses ...

Mobile web-enabled devices, Usage, Impact, Unintended consequences, University Students, Social Network Systems (SNS).

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Win-Win-Win: Reflections from a Work-Integrated Learning Project in a Non-Profit Organization

Dale C MacKrell

This paper reports on the educational aspects of an information systems work-integrated learning (WIL) capstone project for an organization which operates to alleviate homelessness in the Australian non-profit sector. The methodology adopted for the study is Action Design Research (ADR) which draws on action research and design research as a means for framing a project's progress. Reflective insig ...

Work-integrated learning, workplace learning, non-profit, reflection, engagement, IT

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CAPTCHA – Security affecting User Experience

Ruti Gafni , Idan Nagar

CAPTCHA - Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart - is a test with the aim to distinguish between malicious automatic software and real users in the era of Cyber security threats. Various types of CAPTCHA tests were developed, in order to address accessibility while implementing security. This research focuses on the users’ attitudes and experiences related to us ...

CAPTCHA, Cyber Security, User Experience

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Using Office Simulation Software in Teaching Computer Literacy Using Three Sets of Teaching/Learning Activities

Azad Ali , Kustim Wibowo

The most common course delivery model is based on teacher (knowledge provider) - student (knowledge receiver) relationship. The most visible symptom of this situation is over-reliance on textbook’s tutorials. This traditional model of delivery reduces teacher flexibility, causes lack of interest among students, and often makes classes boring. Especially this is visible when teaching Computer Liter ...

Simulation Software, Office Simulation Software, eBook and Simulation Software

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Student Preferences and Performance in Online and Face-to-Face Classes Using Myers-Briggs Indicator: A Longitudinal Quasi-Experimental Study

Seta Boghikian-Whitby, Yehia Mortagy

This longitudinal, quasi-experimental study investigated students’ cognitive personality type using the Myers-Briggs personality Type Indicator (MBTI) in Internet-based Online and Face-to-Face (F2F) modalities. A total of 1154 students enrolled in 28 Online and 32 F2F sections taught concurrently over a period of fourteen years. The study measured whether the sample is similar to the national av ...

Online learning, Distance Education, Face to face (F2F), Myers Briggs (MBTI), Longi-tudinal, Learning Style.

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Economic Upliftment and Social Development through the Development of Digital Astuteness in Rural Areas

Antoinette Lombard, Hein Johan Wiese, Jan Smit

One of the key attempts towards a collective African vision is the New Economic Partnership for African Development (NEPAD). Barnard and Vonk (2003) report that “53 countries have been urged to implement ICTs in three crucial development arenas: education, health and trade”. While NEPAD and other initiatives have contributed to the provision of ICT infrastructure with positive results as seen in t ...

Economic upliftment, Social development, Digital astuteness, Rural areas

111 - 120

Cloud Computing as an Enabler of Agile Global Software Development

Timothy Haig-Smith, Maureen Tanner

Agile global software development (AGSD) is an increasingly prevalent software development strategy, as organizations hope to realize the benefits of accessing a larger resource pool of skilled labor, at a potentially reduced cost, while at the same time delivering value incrementally and iteratively. However, the distributed nature of AGSD creates geographic, temporal, socio-cultural distances th ...

Cloud Computing, Agile Software Development, Agile Global Software Development, Agile Principles, Scrum

121 - 144

Digital Learning Literacies – A Validation Study

Gila Kurtz, Yehuda Peled

This paper presents a validation research of seven Digital Learning Domains (DLDs) and sixty-five performance statements (PSs) as perceived by students with experience in learning via ICT. The preliminary findings suggest a statistical firmness of the inventory. The seven DLDs identified are Social Responsibility, Team-based Learning, Information Research and Retrieval, Information Management, Inf ...

Digital Learning Literacies, 21st Century Skills, Learning Skills

145 - 158

Are We Ready to Go Live with Our Team Projects?

Janice Whatley

Project work forms a large part in work undertaken by graduates when they enter the workforce, so projects are used in higher education to prepare students for their working lives and to enable students to apply creativity in their studies as they present a solution to a problem, using technical skills they have learned in different units of study. Projects, both at work and in higher education, m ...

Team project, employability, transferable skills, external client

159 - 169

Factors Driving Business Intelligence Culture

Rimvydas Skyrius, Igor Katin, Michail Kazimianec, Svetlana Nemitko, Gediminas Rumšas, Raimundas Žilinskas

The field of business intelligence (BI), despite rapid technology advances, continues to feature inadequate levels of adoption. The attention of researchers is shifting towards hu-man factors of BI adoption. The wide set of human factors influencing BI adoption con-tains elements of what we call BI culture – an overarching concept covering key managerial issues that come up in BI implementation. R ...

business intelligence, business intelligence adoption, business intelligence culture

171 - 186

Training Librarians for 21st Century Repository Services: Emerging Trends

Helen Emasealu, Susan Nnadozie Umeozor

The paper reviewed the emerging roles of the 21st century librarians, charged with the responsibility to manage repository services across libraries in present-day information technology environment. Librarians need to be trained and empowered with requisite skills and knowledge needed for successful management of the ICT driven repository initiatives that the 21st century demands. Literature wa ...

Repository services, Academic libraries, Emerging trends, Role of librarians, Developing countries

187 - 194

University Procurement Officers’ Use of Technology When Seeking Information

Dan Bouhnik , Yahel Giat , Issachar Zarruk

The transition from printed to electronic sources of information has resulted in a profound change to the way procurement officers seek information. Furthermore, in the past decade there have been additional technological revolutions that are expected to further affect the procurement process. In this paper, we conduct a survey among forty nine university procurement officers in Israel to examine ...

Public procurement, information seeking behavior, notebooks, smartphones, tablets, information sources

195 - 208

OER and MOOC: The Need for Openness

Ismar Frango Silveira

The Open Software movement serves as a landmark and a starting point for many “open-something” initiatives, such as Open Educational Resources (OER) and Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC). However, under a pragmatic point-of-view, many of its basic principles are not considered specially when dealing with the above mentioned initiatives: common, industry-standard OER and MOOC lack a considerable s ...

Open Educational Resources, Massive Online Open Courses, 5R Principles, Open Licenses, Open Standards

209 - 223

Fuzzy Control Teaching Models

Klaus-Dietrich Kramer, Annedore Söchting, Thomas Stolze

Many degree courses at technical universities include the subject of control systems engineering. As an addition to conventional approaches Fuzzy Control can be used to easily find control solutions for systems, even if they include nonlinearities. To support further educational training, models which represent a technical system to be controlled are required. These models have to represent the sy ...

Fuzzy Control, FHFCE-Tool, Teaching Models, FC-Debugging, FC-Tracing

225 - 233

Benefits of Employing a Personal Response System in a Decision Analysis Course

Rachel Or-Bach

This paper describes the employment of a Personal Response System (PRS) during a Decision Analysis course for Management Information Systems (MIS) students. The description shows how the carefully designed PRS-based questions, the delivery, and the follow-up discussions; provided a context for eliciting and exercising central concepts of the course topics as well as central skills required for MIS ...

Personal Response Systems, Clickers, Quantitative methods for decision analysis, Decision Trees, Modeling

235 - 244

Blending Audience Response Systems into an Information Systems Professional Course

Stephen Burgess, Scott Bingley, David A Banks

Many higher education institutions are moving towards blended learning environments that seek to move towards a student-centred ethos, where students are stakeholders in the learning process. This often involves multi-modal learner-support technologies capable of operating in a range of time and place settings. This article considers the impact of an Audience Response System (ARS) upon the ongoing ...

Blended learning, audience response systems, information systems professionals, ethics

245 - 267

Experiences with Using Videos in Distance Education. A Pilot Study: A Course on Human-Computer Interaction

Herman Koppelman

The number of online resources available for teaching and learning in higher education has been growing enormously during the last decade. A recent development is the emergence of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and of Open Educational Resources (OER). The result is a huge number of videos that are available on line. Can these videos enrich learning? As a pilot study we added sixteen videos to ...

Distance Education, Video, Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), Online Resources, Podcasts, Human-Computer Interaction

269 - 277

Technological Entrepreneurship Framework for University Commercialization of Information Technology

Tamrin Amboala, Joan Richardson

One effective way of accelerating the commercialization of university innovations (inventions) is to execute a “Technological Entrepreneurship” framework that helps the execution of agreements between universities and industry for commercialization. Academics have been encouraged to commercialize their research and findings yet the level of success of commercialization of inventions (innovations) ...

Technological Entrepreneurship, Venture Capitalist, Incubation Programs

279 - 290

Volume 12, 2015

An Internship Program at a Computer Science Department –Theoretical Foundation and Overall Coordination

Azad Ali , David T Smith

Internship courses, unlike others, are multi-pronged because they require coordination at different levels. Typically, a faculty member coordinates the communication and implementation at each level to achieve the desired outcomes. We call the position that this faculty holds the “internship coordinator”. For the work of the internship coordinator to be successful, he/she may need to synchronize t ...

Internship program, internship courses, internship at computer science programs

1 - 10

Comparing Social Isolation Effects on Students Attrition in Online Versus Face-to-Face Courses in Computer Literacy

Azad Ali , David T Smith

This paper compares the effect of social isolation on students enrolled in online courses versus students enrolled in on campus courses (called in this paper Face-to-Face or F2F). Grade data was collected from one online section and two F2F sections of a computer literacy course that was recently taught by one of the authors of this study. The same instructor taught all sections thereby providing ...

Online course withdrawal, social isolation in online courses, attrition in online courses

11 - 20

Usability and Pedagogical Assessment of an Algorithm Learning Tool: A Case Study for an Introductory Programming Course for High School

Aimee Theresa Avancena, Akinori Nishihara

An algorithm learning tool was developed for an introductory computer science class in a specialized science and technology high school in Japan. The tool presents lessons and simple visualizations that aim to facilitate teaching and learning of fundamental algorithms. Written tests and an evaluation questionnaire were designed and implemented along with the learning tool among the participants. T ...

K12-Computer Science Education, Fundamental Algorithms, Algorithm Visualization, Learning Tool Evaluation, Questionnaire Validation

21 - 43

Information Security in Education: Are We Continually Improving?

Dennis Bialaszewski

This paper will shed light on the lack of the development of appropriate monitoring systems in the field of education. Test banks can be easily purchased. Smart phones can take and share pictures of exams. A video of an exam given through Blackboard can easily be made. A survey to determine the extent of cheating using technology was given to several university students. Evidence is provided that ...

education, security, testing, cheating, monitoring

45 - 54

Towards the Realization of the ICT Education Living Lab – The TechTeachers.co.za Success Story

Albertus A. K. Buitendag, Frederik Gerhardus Hattingh, Matt Hains

This paper presents the success story of the intuitive vision of an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) high school educator in South Africa. The growth and evolution of a Community of Practice towards a full-fledged living lab is investigated. A grounded theory study analyses the living lab concept and highlights some of the current challenges secondary high school ICT education face w ...

Collaboration, Community of Practice, ICT Education, Living Labs, TechTeachers

55 - 70

Requirements Elicitation Problems: A Literature Analysis

Bill Davey, Kevin R. Parker

Requirements elicitation is the process through which analysts determine the software requirements of stakeholders. Requirements elicitation is seldom well done, and an inaccurate or incomplete understanding of user requirements has led to the downfall of many software projects. This paper proposes a classification of problem types that occur in requirements elicitation. The classification has be ...

requirements elicitation, requirements gathering, software development, systems development, software failure

71 - 82

Evolving Consumption Patterns of Various Information Media via Handheld Mobile Devices

Ruti Gafni , Nitza Geri

This study examines diverse information media in order to identify those formats that are most suitable for consumption via handheld mobile devices, namely, smartphones and tablets. The preferences of the users are measured objectively by analyzing actual data of their relative use of handheld mobile devices and personal computing (PC) desktop devices, including laptops and notebooks, for consumpt ...

mobile applications acceptance, information format, information media, instructional media, mobile learning (m-learning), diffusion of innovation, human computer interaction

83 - 93

The Use of Computer Simulation to Compare Student performance in Traditional versus Distance Learning Environments

Retta Guy , Millicent Lownes-Jackson

Simulations have been shown to be an effective tool in traditional learning environments; however, as distance learning grows in popularity, the need to examine simulation effectiveness in this environment has become paramount. A casual-comparative design was chosen for this study to determine whether students using a computer-based instructional simulation in hybrid and fully online environments ...

computer simulation, traditional classroom, distance learning, hybrid, face-to-face teaching, lectures and demonstrations, student performance

95 - 109

Curriculum Development of an ICT4D Module in the South African Context

Caroline Khene

The significance of ICTs in supporting socio-economic development in developing countries is inevitable. As academics of information systems in developing countries, we cannot ignore the need for teaching and building the capacity of our students to become knowledgeable and skilled in Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) practice and discourse. Furthermore, it is vital ...

Curriculum, Higher Education, Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D), Outcome Based Education, Developing Countries

111 - 139

IT Teachers’ Experience of Teaching–Learning Strategies to Promote Critical Thinking

Roxanne Bailey, Elsa Mentz

Information Technology (IT) high school learners are constantly struggling to cope with the challenges of succeeding in the subject. IT teachers, therefore, need to be empowered to utilize appropriate teaching–learning strategies to improve IT learners’ success in the subject. By promoting critical thinking skills, IT learners have the opportunity to achieve greater success in the most difficult p ...

Critical thinking, Information Technology education, Pair programming, Teaching–learning strategies, Programming

141 - 152

Design and Implementation of an HCI course for MIS students – Some lessons

Rachel Or-Bach

Courses on Human Computer Interaction (HCI) largely differ in the conception of the role of the course in the program, in the topics to be included, in emphases, in the instructional strategies that are employed, and more. This paper describes the design and implementation of a HCI course for students of the Management Information Systems department in our college. Students’ intermediate and final ...

Human computer interaction, User centered design, Studio-based learning, Alternative designs, Design tradeoffs, Prototyping

153 - 163

Characterizing Big Data Management

Rogério Rossi, Kechi Hirama

Big data management is a reality for an increasing number of organizations in many areas and represents a set of challenges involving big data modeling, storage and retrieval, analysis and visualization. However, technological resources, people and processes are crucial to facilitate the management of big data in any kind of organization, allowing information and knowledge from a large volume of d ...

Big Data, Big Data Management, Big Data Challenges, Big Data Analytics, Decision-Making

165 - 180

Impact of a Cross-Institutional Assessment Designed to Shape Future IT Professionals

Grace Tan, Anne Therese Venables

IT graduates need a suite of technical competencies and soft skills married with an understanding of the social and business contexts of the systems that they build. To instill in students an awareness of current IT industry practice coupled with the broader impact of their discipline in society, academics from Victoria University and Federation University initiated an across-institutional collabo ...

information technology (IT), across-institution assessment, professional skills development, survey

181 - 191

Can E-Portfolio Improve Students’ Readiness to Find an IT Career?

Abdallah Tubaishat

An E-Portfolio Assessment Management System (EAMS) can be an innovative tool that provides students with flexible opportunities to demonstrate the acquisition of skills and abilities in an outcome-based institution. The system has been developed and used for the past ten years to create, reflect, revise, and structure students’ work. It is a repository management system that facilitates collecting ...

E-portfolio, IT Career, Learning Curriculum, Student Perspectives, Outcome-Based Higher Education.

198 - 202

The Usefulness Metrics of The Most Popular eReader Used by Higher Education Students

Dwi Puspita Sari, Elicia Lanham, Lei Pan

In the digital technology era, mobile devices have an important rule to deploy a copy of data and information through the network. An electronic reader (eReader) allows readers to read written materials in an electronic manner that is available in many models. The objective of this study is to evaluate the usage of eReader by higher education students. We firstly identified the most frequently use ...

eReader, evaluation, usefulness metric

203 - 212

Volume 11, 2014

Printable Table of Contents: IISIT Volume 11, 2014

i - ii

Campus Event App - New Exploration for Mobile Augmented Reality

Joseph T. Chao, Lei Pan, Kevin R. Parker

1 - 11

Learning and Assessment Practices of Doctoral Studies of Developing and Developed Countries: A Case Study of Doctoral Studies in Bangladesh

Ahabab Ahamed Chowdhury

13 - 30

Warranty of Misinforming: An Overview

Dimitar Grozdanov Christozov, Stefanka Chukova, Plamen Mateev

31 - 46

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems – Is Botswana Winning? A Question on Culture Effects

Oduronke Temitope Eyitayo

47 - 55

To Social Login or not Login? Exploring Factors Affecting the Decision

Ruti Gafni , Dudu Nissim

57 - 72

Software Development Using C++: Beauty-and-the-Beast

Kirby McMaster, Samuel Sambasivam, Stuart Wolthuis

73 - 84

Unraveling the Digital Literacy Paradox: How Higher Education Fails at the Fourth Literacy

Meg Coffin Murray, Jorge Pérez

85 - 100

Critical Design Factors of Developing a High-quality Educational Website: Perspectives of Pre-service Teachers

Wing Shui Ng

101 - 113

The Use of Mobile Phones by South African University Students

David North, Kevin A. Johnston, Jacques Ophoff

115 - 138

An Overview of Information Tools and Technologies for Competitive Intelligence Building: Theoretical Approach

Celina M. Olszak

139 - 153

Effectiveness of Combining Algorithm and Program Animation: A Case Study with Data Structure Course

Waleed Ibrahim Osman, Mudawi M. Elmusharaf

155 - 168

Analysis of Student Attitudes towards E-learning: The Case of Engineering Students in Libya

Amal Rhema, Iwona Miliszewska

169 - 190

Making the Case for BYOD Instruction in Teacher Education

Nancy Burns Sardone

191 - 201

Analyzing Computer Programming Job Trend Using Web Data Mining

David T Smith, Azad Ali

203 - 214

A Collaborative Framework for a Cross-Institutional Assessment to Shape Future IT Professionals

Anne Therese Venables, Grace Tan, Sunam Pradhan

215 - 223

Course Quality Starts with Knowing Its C-Index

Neville Williams

225 - 237

Volume 10, 2013

Printable Table of Contents: IISIT Volume 10, 2013

i - iii

Dealing with Student Disruptive Behavior in the Classroom – A Case Example of the Coordination between Faculty and Assistant Dean for Academics

Azad Ali , Dorothy Gracey

1 - 15

A Framework for Using Questions as Meta-tags to Enhance Knowledge Support Services as Part of a Living Lab Environment

Albertus A. K. Buitendag, Fredrik Gerhardus Hattingh, Jacobus S. Van Der Walt

17 - 35

An Effective Development Environment Setup for System and Application Software

Aleksandar Bulajic, Samuel Sambasivam, Radoslav Stojic

37 - 66

Social Media and Prosumerism

Nicole A. Buzzetto-More

67 - 80

Models to Inform Capstone Program Development

Nicole A. Buzzetto-More

81 - 93

Navigating the Framework Jungle for Teaching Web Application Development

Joseph T. Chao, Kevin R. Parker, Bill Davey

95 - 109

The Role of Warranty of Misinforming for New Product Adoption

Dimitar Grozdanov Christozov, Stefanka Chukova, Plamen Mateev

111 - 120

InkBlog: A Pen-Based Blog Tool for e-Learning Environments

Andre Constantino da Silva, Heloísa Vieira da Rocha

121 - 135

Learning Community or Community of Practice: Preliminary Findings of a Transfer of Learning Study

John P Egan

137 - 144

Planning an Iron Ore Mine: From Exploration Data to Informed Mining Decisions

Jim Everett

145 - 162

Exploring the Addition of Mobile Access to a Healthcare Services Website

Ruti Gafni , Ory Barak

163 - 174

Do Operating Systems Affect Perceptions of Smartphone Advantages and Drawbacks?

Ruti Gafni , Nitza Geri

175 - 184

Planning and Financing Continuing and Non-Formal Education in Nigeria

Olasunkanmi M Gbadamosi, Luke N. Onuoha, Jonathan Chinaka Nwosu

185 - 193

Gamification in a Social Learning Environment

David Giannetto, Joseph T. Chao, Anthony Fontana

195 - 207

Defining and Classifying Learning Outcomes: A Case Study

Maria Jose Angelico Goncalves, Pedro Pimenta, Luís Braga, Manuel Cota

209 - 226

Implications of Voluntary Communication Based on Gender, Education Level and Cultural Issues in an Online Environment

Vicki L Gregory, Kiersten Cox

227 - 239

Web-based Tutorials and Traditional Face-to-Face Lectures: A Comparative Analysis of Student Performance

Retta Guy , Millicent Lownes-Jackson

241 - 259

A Guide to Educating Different Generations in South Africa

Kevin A. Johnston

261 - 273

An E-Collaboration Activity System for Research Institutions

Tendani Lavhengwa, Albertus A. K. Buitendag, Jacobus S. Van Der Walt

275 - 294

Investigating Ways to Use Facebook at the University Level: A Delphi Study

Michael J. Magro, Jason H. Sharp, Katie Ryan, Sherry D. Ryan

295 - 311

Securing the Information and Communications Technology Global Supply Chain from Exploitation: Developing a Strategy for Education, Training, and Awareness

Elizabeth A McDaniel

313 - 324

Project Management Principles Applied in Academic Research Projects

Pollyana Notargiacomo Mustaro , Rogério Rossi

325 - 340

Practicing M-Application Services Opportunities with Special Reference to Oman

Syed Jafar Naqvi, Hafedh Al-Shihi

341 - 353

Applying a Modified Technology Acceptance Model to Qualitatively Analyse the Factors Affecting E-Portfolio Implementation for Student Teachers’ in Field Experience Placements

Eugenia M. W. Ng, Ronnie H. Shroff , Cher Ping Lim

355 - 365

Multi-Agent Framework for Social Customer Relationship Management Systems

Celina M. Olszak, Tomasz Bartuś

367 - 387

A Packet Sniffer (PSniffer) Application for Network Security in Java

Otusile Oluwabukola, Oludele Awodele, Chibueze Ogbonna, Ajaegbu Chigozirim, Amarachi Anyaehie

389 - 400

Mobile Certificate Based Network Services

Göran Pulkkis, Farzan Yazdani

413 - 429

Challenges in Adopting Open Innovation Strategies in SMEs: An Exploratory Study in Portugal

Hakikur Rahman, Isabel Ramos

431 - 448

Weapons of Mass Instruction: The Creative use of Social Media in Improving Pedagogy

Michael Anthony Ralph, Lynette L. Ralph

449 - 460

WoT (Web of Things) for Energy Management in a Smart Grid-Connected Home

Sita Ramakrishnan, Subramania Ramakrishnan

461 - 472

Using Youtube© in the Classroom for the Net Generation of Students

Sumarie Roodt, Dominic Peier

473 - 488

Transitioning from Data Storage to Data Curation: The Challenges Facing an Archaeological Institution

Maria Sagrario Simbulan

489 - 499

Towards a Method for Mobile Learning Design

Genevieve Stanton, Jacques Ophoff

501 - 523

Informing via Websites: Comparative Assessment of University Websites

Stefka Toleva-Stoimenova, Dimitar Grozdanov Christozov

525 - 537

How Business Departments Manage the Requirements Engineering Process in Information Systems Projects in Small and Medium Enterprises

Ruediger Weissbach

539 - 549

Volume 9, 2012

Printable Table of Contents: IISIT Volume 9, 2012

Strengthening the Online Auction Culture of the Philippines

Martiniano Jake Neri, Arnel Bangis, Theresa Budlong, Jade Clado, Irish Christine Ebot, Analy Fransisco, Analy Fransisco

1 - 16

The Impact of Peer Assessment and Feedback Strategy in Learning Computer Programming in Higher Education

Wing Shui NG

17 - 27

Measuring up to ICT Teaching and Learning Standards

Anne Venables, Grace Tan

29 - 40

Systemic Approach to e-Skilling in South Africa

Zoran Mitrovic, Mymoena Sharif, Wallace Taylor, Harold Wesso

41 - 61

Teaching Undergraduate Software Engineering Using Open Source Development Tools

Scott Teel, Dino Schweitzer, Stephen Fulton

63 - 73

Evaluation of a Team Project Based Learning Module for Developing Employability Skills

Janice Whatley

75 - 92

Curriculum Construction and Custom Publishing – An Academic Perspective

Joan Richardson, Ross Smith, Audra Lukaitis, Ryan O'Hare

93 - 103

The Need for Qualitative Methods in Undergraduate IS Education

Albert Tay

105 - 114

Cross-Platform Mobile App Software Development in the Curriculum

Kyle Lutes

115 - 124

Exploring the Impact of Decision Making Culture on the Information Quality – Information Use Relationship: An Empirical Investigation of Two Industries

Aleš Popovič, Andreja Habjan

125 - 134

Distributed Collaborative Learning in Online LIS Education: A Curricular Analysis

Geoffrey Liu

135 - 147

The Potential of E-Learning in Assisting Post-Crisis Countries in Re-Building Their Higher Education Systems: The Case of Libya

Amal Rhema, Iwona Miliszewska

149 - 160

An Innovative Marketing Strategy to Promote our College of IT: Zayed University Case Study

Manar Abu Talib, May El Barachi, Olga Ormandjieva

161 - 175

Twitter as a Platform for an Israeli Community of Information Science Professionals

Ina Blau, Tami Neuthal

177 - 186

A Comparison Study of Impact Factor in Web of Science and Scopus Databases for Engineering Education and Educational Technology Journals

Pao-Nan Chou

187 - 194

Student Attitudes Towards E-Learning: The First Year Accounting Experience

Lily Wong

195 - 207

The Evolution of Digital Technologies – from Collaboration to eCollaboration – and the Tools which assist eCollaboration

Michael Jones

209 - 219

Addressing Knowledge Support Services as Part of a Living Lab Environment

Albertus Buitendag, Jacobus van der Walt, Tumelo Malebane, Lizette de Jager

221 - 241

Facilitating Linguistic Integration of Immigrants: An Overview of ICT Tools

Simon Collin, Thierry Karsenti

243 - 251

Market Segmentation based on Risk of Misinforming Reduction

Dimitar Christozov, Stefanka Chukova, Plamen Mateev

253 - 265

Thinking in the Digital Era: A Revised Model for Digital Literacy

Yoram Eshet

267 - 276

Building a Regional Structure of an Information Society on the Basis of e-Administration

Ewa Ziemba, Celina Olszak

277 - 295

Modeling, Training, and Mentoring Teacher Candidates to Use SMART Board Technology

James Oigara, Nancy Wallace

297 - 315

Software Engineering Frameworks: Perceptions of Second-Semester Students

Kirby McMaster, Samuel Sambasivam, Steven Hadfield, Stuart Wolthuis

317 - 329

Guide to ISO 27001: UAE Case Study

Manar Abu Talib, May El Barachi, Adel Khelif, Olga Ormandjieva

331 - 349

A Research Study for the Development of a SOA Middleware Prototype that used Web Services to Bridge the LMS to LOR Data Movement Interoperability Gap for Education

Robert Mason, Timothy Ellis

351 - 360

Double-Buffer Traffic Shaper Modelling for Multimedia Applications in Slow Speed Network

Folake Olayiwola, Damilola Oyewo, Adesola Aderounmu, Rotimi Adagunodo

361 - 368

Routing Security in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks

Jonny Karlsson, Laurence S. Dooley, Göran Pulkkis

369 - 383

Contents and Architecture of Nigerian Universities’ Websites

Samuel Chiedu Utulu, Omolara Bolarinwa

385 - 397

A Framework for Using Cost-Benefit Analysis in Making the Case for Software Upgrade

Azad Ali

399 - 409

Volume 8, 2011

Table of Contents Volume 8, 2011

Team Syntegrity in a Triple Loop Learning Model for Course Development

Viveca Asproth, Christina Amcoff Nyström, Hanna Olsson, Lena-Maria Öberg

1 - 11

Improving Teaching and Learning in an Information Systems Subject: A Work in Progress

Lorraine Staehr, Graeme Byrne

13 - 23

Tracking Viral Contamination through User Habits and IT Practices

Martiniano Jake III Neri, Adrian Ranido

25 - 36

Playing it Safe: Approaching Science Safety Awareness through Computer Game-Based Training

Iwona Miliszewska , Ewa Sztendur

37 - 47

E-Textbooks Are Coming: Are We Ready?

Meg Coffin Murray, Jorge Pérez

49 - 60

Reflections on a Trial Implementation of an E-Learning Solution in a Libyan University

Amal Rhema, Iwona Miliszewska

61 - 76

Building Computer Games as Effective Learning Tools for Digital Natives – and Similars

Ismar Frango Silveira, Carlos Fernando Araújo Jr, Jaime Veiga, Luis Bezerra, Leonardo Kasperavicius

77 - 92

Making a Case for Change Management Theory to Support IS/IT Curriculum Innovation

Susan Benvenuti

93 - 109

Virtual Campuses, Groupware and University Evolution

Antonio Cartelli

111 - 123

Responding to the Employability Challenge: Final Projects for IT-based Organizational Training

Dorothy Langley, Miki Ronen

125 - 142

Integrating IT Skills into a Business School’s Programmes

Janice Whatley, Simon Ireland, Richard Bell

143 - 155

Reinforcing and Enhancing Understanding of Students in Learning Computer Architecture

Cecile Yehezkel , Revital Leibovitch , Ilya Levin

157 - 173

Highs and Lows of Organizational Decision Making and the Relationship to Collaboration and Technology Tools

Honora Rockar, Frederick Kohun

175 - 208

Would Cloud Computing Revolutionize Teaching Business Intelligence Courses?

Stevan Mrdalj

209 - 217

Should the “CLOUD” be Regulated? An Assessment

Abbas Strømmen-Bakhtiar, Amir R. Razavi

219 - 230

Exploring the Aspects of Digital Divide in a Developing Country

Ali Acilar

231 - 244

Digital Divide in the Population of Serbia

Ninoslava D. Savic, Zoran Radojicic

245 - 258

Society’s Level of Literacy: A Cross Cultural Study

Amir Shoham, Snunith Shoham, Miki Malul

259 - 275

Derivation of Database Keys’ Operations

Adio Taofiki Akinwale, Olusegun Folorunso, Adesina S. Sodiya

277 - 291

Library Web/Online Information Services to the Needs and Behavior of Students

Yau Ching Leung

293 - 312

Chinese SMEs and Information Technology Adoption

Michelle WL Fong

313 - 322

Developing an Interactive Social Media Based Learning Environment

Joseph T. Chao, Kevin R. Parker, Anthony Fontana

323 - 334

Informing Implementers of Lean Strategy in Process Industries – The Central Role of Schedulers

Irit Alony, Peter Caputi, Tim Coltman

335 - 349

The Communication System in Project Teams: Problems of Transfer of Knowledge and Information for the Management of IT Projects

Jerzy Kisielnicki

351 - 361

The Islands of Innovation Model: Opportunities and Threats for Effective Implementation of Technological Innovation in the Education System

Orit Avidov-Ungar, Yoram Eshet-Alkalai

363 - 376

E-Learning Diurnal Time Patterns in the Navy

Ruti Gafni , Levi Shaul, Doron Tauber

377 - 393

Technology Mediated Learning: Observations in Two Technologies

Raafat George Saadé, Meral Demirbag Buyukkurt, Cynthia Alkhori

395 - 408

Blended E-Learning in Higher Education: Research on Students’ Perspective

Marta Zuvic-Butorac, Nena Roncevic, Damir Nemcanin, Zoran Radojicic

409 - 429

A Collaborative Writing Approach to Wikis: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation

Said Hadjerrouit

431 - 449

Volume 7, 2010

Printable Table of Contents IISIT Volume 7 (2010)

Inquiry-Based Training Model and the Design of E-Learning Environments

Bijan Gillani

1 - 9

Extending Learning to Interacting with Multiple Participants in Multiple Web 2.0 Learning Communities

Eugenia M. W. Ng

11 - 23

Motivations of the Online Student

Audra Lukaitis, Bill Davey

25 - 39

An Enhanced Learning Environment for Institutions: Implementing i-Converge’s Pedagogical Model

Oludele Awodele, Sunday Idowu, Vincent Jonah Joshua, Omotola Anjorin, Adebunmi Adedire, Victoria Akpore

41 - 59

Quality Measures that Matter

Regina Benton, Lourdes White

61 - 72

Using a Learning Management System to Foster Independent Learning in an Outcome-Based University: A Gulf Perspective

Azzedine Lansari, Abdallah Tubaishat, Akram Al-Rawi

73 - 87

Reflections on the Gestation of Polymorphic Innovation: The Exploitation of Emergence in Social Network Development via Text Messaging

John Lenarcic, Joan Richardson

89 - 98

Web Design and Company Image

Joze Kuzic, George Giannatos, Tanja Vignjevic

99 - 108

WWW Image Searching Delivers High Precision and No Misinformation: Reality or Ideal?

Paul Nieuwenhuysen

109 - 131

An Ad-Hoc Collaborative Exercise between US and Australian Students Using ThinkTank: E-Graffiti or Meaningful Exchange?

David Banks, Christopher Stewart, Michael Gendron

133 - 143

IT Service and Support: What To Do With Geographically Distributed Teams?

Siong Meng Albert Tay

145 - 159

The Adoption of Single Sign-On and Multifactor Authentication in Organisations: A Critical Evaluation Using TOE Framework

Marise-Marie D'Costa-Alphonso, Michael Lane

161 - 189

Information System and Risk Reassessment

Božo Nikolic, Ljiljana Ruzic-Dimitrijevic

191 - 207

Efforts to Reverse the Trend of Enrollment Decline in Computer Science Programs

Azad Ali , Charles Shubra

209 - 224

MBA Program Revision and the Impact on the CIS Option

Doris G. Duncan

225 - 234

Knowledge Management Curriculum Development: Linking with Real Business Needs

Celina M. Olszak, Ewa Ziemba

235 - 248

Mentoring Doctoral Students in a Developing Society

V. Vishwa Mohan

249 - 264

Investment in Intelligent Transport Aid Systems and Final Performance

Carmen de Pablos Heredero, Luis Perez Bermejo, Jose Luis Montes Botella

265 - 284

An Examination of Students’ Self-Efficacy Beliefs and Demonstrated Computer Skills

Retta Guy , Millicent Lownes-Jackson

285 - 295

Evaluation of Web Based Information Systems: Users’ Informing Criteria

Stefka Toleva-Stoimenova

297 - 309

Focusing on SMTEs: Using Audience Response Technology to Refine a Research Project

David Banks, Ann Monday, Stephen Burgess, Carmine Selllitto

311 - 320

Demographic Factors Affecting Freshman Students' Attitudes towards Software Piracy: An Empirical Study

Ali Acilar

321 - 328

International Collaboration for Women in IT: How to Avoid Reinventing the Wheel

Annemieke Craig, Catherine Lang

329 - 338

Mental Health and Wellbeing: Converging HCI with Human Informatics in Higher Education

Elspeth McKay, Jenny Martin

339 - 351

The Role of IT in the Ethics of Globalization

Robert Schultz

353 - 368

Toward a Theory of Informing Objects

Robert Joseph Skovira

369 - 375

Timely Informing Clients of the Impact of Changes in Their Business Environment

Juan R. Bauer Mengelberg, Gilberto David Velazquez Castro

377 - 392

So Different Though So Similar? – Or Vice Versa? Exploration of the Logic Programming and the Object-Oriented Programming Paradigms

Bruria Haberman, Noa Rajonis

393 - 402

Collaboration of Two Service-Learning Courses: Software Development and Technical Communication

Jennifer Brown, Joseph T. Chao

403 - 412

Student Marketability: Enhancing Software Skills

Ariffin Abdul Mutalib, Massudi Mahmuddin

413 - 422

Towards E-Learning in Higher Education in Libya

Amal Rhema, Iwona Miliszewska

423 - 437

Data Modeling for Better Performance in a Bulletin Board Application

Juan R. Bauer Mengelberg, Alejandro Hernández Negrete

439 - 457

The Coordination between Faculty and Technical Support Staff in Updating Computer Technology Courses – A Case Example

Azad Ali , Rajendra Murthy

459 - 469

Open Innovation in SMEs: From Closed Boundaries to Networked Paradigm

Hakikur Rahman, Isabel Ramos

471 - 487

The Effects of Student Syndrome, Stress, and Slack on Information Systems Development Projects

Derek Smith

489 - 494

A Novel Visual Cryptography Coding System for Jam Resistant Communications

Leemon Baird, Dino Schweitzer, William Bahn, Samuel Sambasivam

495 - 507

XBRL - Is it Time?

Kathleen Boyer-Wright, George Summers, Jeffrey Kottemann

509 - 518

Technology Enhanced Learning: Utilizing a Virtual Learning Environment to Facilitate Blended Learning

David Tucker, Laurie Jones

519 - 529

Volume 6, 2009

Cross-Departmental Collaboration for the Community: Technical Communicators in a Service-Learning Software Engineering Course

Joseph T. Chao, Jennifer Brown

1 - 13

A Student Project to Qualify Underprivileged Adolescents

Georg Dister, Friedrich Fels

15 - 24

ICTs and Network Relations: Exploring Knowledge Sharing and Coordination in Distributed Organizations

Inge Hermanrud, Jan-Oddvar Sørnes

25 - 44

Design Alternatives for a MediaWiki to Support Collaborative Writing in Higher Education Classes

Sumonta Kasemvilas, Lorne Olfman

45 - 64

A Longitudinal Study of the Use of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning in Promoting Lifelong Learning Skills

Ada W. W. MA

65 - 86

Meaningful Learning in Discussion Forums: Towards Discourse Analysis

Raafat George Saadé, Qiong Huang

87 - 99

SMS User Interface Result Checking System

Emmanuel Rotimi Adagunodo, Oludele Awodele, Sunday Idowu

101 - 112

Name-display Feature for Self-disclosure in an Instant Messenger Program: A Qualitative Study in Taiwan

Pao-Nan Chou, Wei-Fan Chen

113 - 126

A Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Container Tracking System for Port Louis Harbor: The Case of Mauritius

Jeetendre Narsoo, Wasseem A. Muslun, Mohammad Sameer Sunhaloo

127 - 142

Informing Processes and Models: A Core Course in IS Curriculum

Dimitar Christozov, Stoyan Denchev, Stefka Toleva-Stoimenova

143 - 151

Didactics of ICT in Secondary Education: Conceptual Issues and Practical Perspectives

Said Hadjerrouit

153 - 178

The Work Readiness of Master of Information Systems International Students at an Australian University: A Pilot Study

Dale Mackrell

179 - 191

How Generic is I(nformation) T(echnology)?

Iwona Miliszewska , Anne Venables, Grace Tan

193 - 199

Animated Courseware Support for Teaching Database Design

Meg Coffin Murray, Mario Guimaraes

201 - 211

The Information Society Development Strategy on a Regional Level

Celina M. Olszak, Ewa Ziemba

213 - 225

Finding Diamonds in Data: Reflections on Teaching Data Mining from the Coal Face

Shana R. Ponelis

227 - 240

Managing Information Systems Textbooks: Assessing their Orientation toward Potential General Managers

Paul H. Rosenthal, L. Jane Park

241 - 255

IT Systems Development: An IS Curricula Course that Combines Best Practices of Project Management and Software Engineering

Abdallah Tubaishat

257 - 268

University Enhancement System using a Social Networking Approach: Extending E-learning

Oludele Awodele, Sunday Idowu, Omotola Anjorin, Adebunmi Adedire, Victoria Akpore

269 - 283

The Efficacy of a Web-Based Instruction and Remediation Program on Student Learning

Nicole A. Buzzetto-More , Ojiabo Ukoha

285 - 298

An Interactive E-Learning Tool for Kids in Mauritius

Mohammad Sameer Sunhaloo, Jeetendre Narsoo, A. Gopaul

299 - 308

The Need to Balance the Blend: Online versus Face-to-Face Teaching in an Introductory Accounting Subject

Lily Wong, Arthur Tatnall

309 - 322

Towards a Guide for Novice Researchers on Research Methodology: Review and Proposed Methods

Timothy J. Ellis , Yair Levy

323 - 337

Development of Electronic Money and Its Impact on the Central Bank Role and Monetary Policy

Mohamad Al-Laham, Haroon Al-Tarwneh, Najwan Abdallat

339 - 349

The Risk of Misinforming for Competing Messages

Dimitar Christozov, Stefanka Chukova, Plamen Mateev

351 - 364

Phenomenon of Nasza Klasa (Our Class) Polish Social Network Site

Andrzej Malachowski

365 - 372

The Adoption of Automatic Teller Machines in Nigeria: An Application of the Theory of Diffusion of Innovation

Wole Michael Olatokun, Louisa Joyce Igbinedion

373 - 393

Agent-Based Advert Placement System for Broadcasting Stations

Olufunke R. Vincent, Olusegun Folorunso, Adebayo D. Akinde

395 - 404

Ownership Influences on Vertical B2B E-marketplaces’ Survival

Weijun Zheng

405 - 413

Assessment of Nigerian Teacher Educators’ ICT Training

Philip Olu Jegede

415 - 420

Community Living Lab as a Collaborative Innovation Environment

Jacobus S. van der Walt, Albertus A. K. Buitendag, Jan J. Zaaiman, Joey Jansen van Vuuren

421 - 436

Modeling an Assessing Rubric: Reflections of Red Ink

Robert Joseph Skovira

437 - 448

E-Portfolios for Integrated Reflection

Shouhong Wang

449 - 460

A Data Driven Conceptual Analysis of Globalization — Cultural Affects and Hofstedian Organizational Frames: The Slovak Republic Example

Gary J DeLorenzo, Frederick Kohun, Vladimir Burcik, Alzbeta Belanova, Robert Joseph Skovira

461 - 470

Digital Divide: The Case of Developing Countries

Michelle WL Fong

471 - 478

Analysing Socio-Demographic Differences in Access and Use of ICTs in Nigeria Using the Capability Approach

Wole Michael Olatokun

479 - 496

Novel Phonetic Name Matching Algorithm with a Statistical Ontology for Analysing Names Given in Accordance with Thai Astrology

Chakkrit Snae , Michael Brückner

497 - 515

A Conceptual Model for Learning to Program in Introductory Programming Courses

Azad Ali

517 - 529

The Role of Management Games in Mapping Learning Styles to Elements of Business Know-How Acquisition: A Case Study

Magdy M. Kabeil

531 - 543

Influence on Student Academic Behaviour through Motivation, Self-Efficacy and Value-Expectation: An Action Research Project to Improve Learning

Hallgeir Nilsen

545 - 556

Innovation and Scaling up Agile Software Engineering Projects

Sita Ramakrishnan

557 - 574

The LIS Discipline or Retrieval Of Information: A Theoretical Viewpoint

Gholamreza Fadaie

575 - 583

Informing Clients through Information Communication Technology in Health Care Systems

V. Vishwa Mohan, Vahideh Zarea Gavgani

585 - 593

Risk Assessment of Information Technology Systems

Božo Nikolic, Ljiljana Ruzic-Dimitrijevic

595 - 615

Framework on Hybrid Network Management System Using a Secure Mobile Agent Protocol

Olutayo Bamidele Ajayi, Adebayo D. Akinde, Adio Taofiki Akinwale

617 - 629

A Multi-Layered Approach to the Design of Intelligent Intrusion Detection and Prevention System (IIDPS)

Oludele Awodele, Sunday Idowu, Omotola Anjorin, Vincent Jonah Joshua

631 - 647

Securing Control Signaling in Mobile IPv6 with Identity-Based Encryption

Martin Ehmke, Harri Forsgren, Kaj J. Grahn, Jonny Karlsson, Timo Karvi, Göran Pulkkis

649 - 667

A Strategic Review of Existing Mobile Agent-Based Intrusion Detection Systems

S. Adebukola Onashoga, Adebayo D. Akinde, Adesina S. Sodiya

669 - 682

Will Information-Communications Systems Survive? Web 2.x and SocNet as Placebos or Real Internet Survival Kit

Fjodor Ruzic

683 - 698

Components- Based Access Control Architecture

Adesina S. Sodiya , S. Adebukola Onashoga

699 - 706

Aligning Efficacy Beliefs and Competence: A Framework for Developing Technical Knowledge

Nancy A. Inskeep, Bettie C. Hall

707 - 722

Soft Skills and Technical Expertise of Effective Project Managers

Sharlett Gillard

723 - 729

Evaluation of a Suite of Metrics for Component Based Software Engineering (CBSE)

V.Lakshmi Narasimhan, P. T. Parthasarathy, M. Das

731 - 740

DigiStylus: A Socio-Technical Approach to Teaching and Research in Paleography

Antonio Cartelli

741 - 753

Usability Issues in Mobile-Wireless Information Systems

Ruti Gafni

755 - 769

Philip Olu Jegede

771 - 777

Emotion-Aware Education and Research Systems

Vladimir Jotsov

779 - 794

The Energy Inefficiency of Office Computing and Potential Emerging Technology Solutions

Michael Lane, Angela Howard, Srecko Howard

795 - 808

Using Digital Video Game in Service Learning Projects

Scott Mensch, Azad Ali

809 - 815

M-Government Services Initiatives in Oman

Syed Jafar Naqvi, Hafedh Al-Shihi

817 - 824

How Anomalous Is Belady's Anomaly?

Kirby McMaster, Samuel Sambasivam, Nicole Anderson

825 - 836

Compiler-Aided Run-Time Performance Speed-Up in Super-Scalar Processor

Moshe Pelleh

837 - 844

Capturing the Mature Traveler: Assessing Web First Impressions

Audra Lukaitis, Bill Davey

845 - 853

Study of Polish Women’s Web Portals

Andrzej Malachowski, Paulina Przygrodzka

855 - 861

ending SCORM LOM

Robert T. Mason, Timothy J. Ellis

863 - 875

Modified Watershed Algorithm for Segmentation of 2D Images

Malik Sikandar Hayat Khiyal, Aihab Khan, Amna Bibi

877 - 886

SMS Based Wireless Home Appliance Control System (HACS) for Automating Appliances and Security

Malik Sikandar Hayat Khiyal, Aihab Khan, Erum Shehzadi

887 - 894

Volume 5, 2008

Highs and Lows of Implementing a Management Strategy Eliminating ‘Free Passengers’ in Group Projects

Marilyn Ford, Tony Jewels

1 - 10

In Search of SecondLife Nirvana

Douglas R. Vogel, Maxwell Guo, Phil Zhou, Stella Tian, Phil Zhou

11 - 28

IT Control Objectives for Implementing the Public Finance Management Act in South Africa

Richard Luyinda, Marlien Herselman, Gerrit Botha

29 - 49

A Framework for Information Security Management Based on Guiding Standards: A United States Perspective

Janice C. Sipior, Burke T. Ward

51 - 60

Comparing Two Program Contents with IT2005 Body of Knowledge

Azad Ali , Frederick Kohun

61 - 72

Improving Information Security Risk Analysis Practices for Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises: A Research Agenda

John C. Beachboard, Alma Cole, Mike Mellor, Steven Hernandez, Kregg Aytes, Nelson Massad

73 - 85

Training Information Brokers: A Curriculum Model

Dimitar Christozov, Stoyan Denchev, Stefka Toleva-Stoimenova, Katya Rasheva-Yordanova

87 - 94

Curriculum Change and the Evolution of Postgraduate e-Business Subjects

Arthur Tatnall , Mohini Singh, Stephen Burgess, Bill Davey

95 - 106

The Effect of Student Background in E-Learning — Longitudinal Study

Seta Boghikian-Whitby, Yehia Mortagy

107 - 126

Teaching in Virtual Worlds: Opportunities and Challenges

Stacy Kluge, Liz Riley

127 - 135

Impact of Motivation on Intentions in Online Learning: Canada vs China

Raafat George Saadé, Weiwei Tan, Fassil Nebebe

137 - 147

A Longitudinal Analysis of the Effects of Instructional Strategies on Student Performance in Traditional and E-Learning Formats

Retta Guy , Craig Wishart

149 - 163

Lean Supply Chains, JIT and Cellular Manufacturing – The Human Side

Irit Alony, Michael Jones

165 - 175

Online Privacy Analysis and Hints for Its Improvement

Tanja Krunic, Ljiljana Ruzic-Dimitrijevic

177 - 196

Does the Customer Know Best? The Results of a Survey on E-Commerce Development

Julian Terry

197 - 208

Issues and Challenges in Selecting Content for Web Design Courses

Azad Ali , Scott Mensch

209 - 231

Using a Learner-Centered Approach to Teach ICT in Secondary Schools: An Exploratory Study

Said Hadjerrouit

233 - 259

ICT Attitudinal Characteristics and Use Level of Nigerian Teachers

Philip Olu Jegede

261 - 266

Proposal of an Instructional Design for Teaching the Requirement Process for Designing Information Systems

Yuka Kata, Yukio Namba

267 - 279

Using Roles of Variables to Enhance Novice’s Debugging Work

Mikko-Jussi Laakso, Lauri Malmi, Ari Korhonen , Teemu Rajala, Erkki Kaila, Tapio Salakoski

281 - 295

Open Online Assignment Submission: First Year Students’ Behavior and Views

Dorothy Langley, Miki Ronen, Shlomit Ben Shachar

297 - 310

Improving Progression and Satisfaction Rates of Novice Computer Programming Students through ACME – Analogy, Collaboration, Mentoring, and Electronic Support

Iwona Miliszewska , Anne Venables, Grace Tan

311 - 323

Engaging Student Teachers in Peer Learning via a Blended Learning Environment

Eugenia M. W. Ng

325 - 334

The Conceptual Model of a Web Learning Portal for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises

Celina M. Olszak, Ewa Ziemba

335 - 351

The Development of Students Geometrical Thinking through Transformational Processes and Interaction Techniques in a Dynamic Geometry Environment

Stavroula Patsiomitou

355 - 393

Linking Theory, Practice and System-Level Perception: Using a PBL Approach in an Operating Systems Course

Moshe Pelleh, Bruria Haberman, Tammy Rosenthal, John English

395 - 408

Designing Digital Portfolios for Technology Support Students

Azad Ali

409 - 422

Interweaving Rubrics in Information Systems Program Assessments- Experiences from Action Research at Two Universities

Olga Petkova, Doncho Petkov, Marriane J. D'Onofrio

423 - 432

Blogs – The New Source of Data Analysis

Michael Jones, Irit Alony

433 - 446

The Social Cost of the Integration of Information and Communication Technologies, Information, Education, and Communication on the Young of the Republic of Mauritius

Mahendrenath Motah

447 - 457

Mobile Phones and Children: An Australian Perspective

Niranjala D. Weerakkody

459 - 475

An Evolving Road Map: Student Perceptions and Contributions to Graphic Organizers within an Academic Wiki

Andrew Moshirnia

477 - 485

Design, Development, and Implementation of an Open Source Learning Object Repository (OSLOR)

Alex Koohang, Kevin S. Floyd, Julie Santiago , Steven Greene, Keith Harman

487 - 498

In Search of New Identity for LIS Discipline, with Some References to Iran

Gholamreza Fadaie

499 - 511

Use of the Normalized Word Vector Approach in Document Classification for an LKMC

Kevin R. Parker, Robert Williams, Philip S. Nitse, Siong Meng Albert Tay

513 - 524

Assessment of School Information System Utilization in the UAE Primary Schools

Ala M. Abu-Samaha, Rima Shishakly

525 - 542

Requirements Elicitation – What’s Missing?

Bill Davey, Chris Cope

543 - 551

IS Strategic Decision-Making: A Garbage Can View

Harald Fardal, Jan-Oddvar Sørnes

553 - 569

Developing a Model of Next Generation Knowledge Management

Kenneth A. Grant, Candace Grant

571 - 590

Is Usage Predictable Using Belief-Attitude-Intention Paradigm?

Raafat George Saadé, Weiwei Tan, Dennis Kira

591 - 599

Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) Practices as Responsible for the Creation of Knowledge and Sustainable Competitive Advantages in the Grocery Industry

Ignacio Soret, Carmen de Pablos Heredero, Jose Luis Montes Botella

601 - 621

Identification of Design Patterns for Mobile Services with J2ME

Jeetendre Narsoo, Nawaz Mohamudally

623 - 643

Sustaining Negotiated QoS in Connection Admission Control for ATM Networks Using Fuzzy Logic Techniques

Olufade F. Williams Onifade, G. Adesola Aderounmu, Oluwasikemi Tayo

645 - 655

The Theory of Infoledge: A Logical, Mathematical, and Geometrical Interpretation

Firas M. Alkhaldi , Mohammad Olaimat

657 - 666

Warranty and the Risk of Misinforming: Evaluation of the Degree of Acceptance

Dimitar Christozov, Stefanka Chukova, Plamen Mateev

667 - 677

Informing for Operations: The First Principia

Zbigniew J. Gackowski

679 - 704

Informing through User-Centered Exploratory Search and Human-Computer Interaction Strategies

Panagiotis Petratos

705 - 727

Object-Oriented Hypermedia Design and J2EE Technology for Web-based Applications

Habib Karimpoor, Mohsen Sadighi Moshkenani, Ayaz Isazadeh

729 - 740

Volume 4, 2007

Socio-Technical Theory and Knowledge Construction: Towards New Pedagogical Paradigms?

Antonio Cartelli

1 - 14

A Didactic Experience in Collaborative Learning Supported by Digital Media

Ricardo Cattafi, Christiane Metzner

15 - 28

Intelligent System for Information Security Management: Architecture and Design

Mariana Hentea

29 - 43

Framing the Corporate Security Problem: The Ecology of Security

Robert Joseph Skovira

45 - 52

Threat Modeling Using Fuzzy Logic Paradigm

Adesina S. Sodiya , S. Adebukola Onashoga, B. A. Oladunjoye

53 - 61

The Need for and Contents of a Course in Forensic Information Systems & Computer Science at the University of Cape Town

Adrie Stander, Kevin A. Johnston

63 - 72

Accreditation of Monash University Software Engineering (MUSE) Program

Sita Ramakrishnan

73 - 89

An Information System for a Bauxite Mine

J. E. Everett

91 - 104

Introducing Students to Business Intelligence: Acceptance and Perceptions of OLAP Software

Mike Hart , Farhan Esat, Michael Rocha, Zaid Khatieb

105 - 123

Prisoner’s Attitudes Toward Using Distance Education Whilst in Prisons in Saudi Arabia

Abdulkarim A. Al Saif

125 - 131

Teaching Mobile Communication in an e-Learning Environmnet

Laura Bergstrom, Kaj J. Grahn, Jonny Karlsson, Göran Pulkkis

133 - 152

An Exploratory Survey in Collaborative Software in a Graduate Course in Automatic Identification and Data Capture

Stephen Elliot, Teresa Rishel

153 - 162

Is There a Value Paradox of E-learning in MBA Programs?

Nitza Geri, David Gefen

163 - 174

A Model of Introducing e-Learning System at Vocational College for Business Secretaries

Cristina Chuva Costa, Paulo Rupino da Cunha

175 - 187

Blended Proposal of Orientation Scientific Works by Comparison Face-to-Face and Online Processes

Pollyana Notargiacomo Mustaro

189 - 199

Can Online Tutors Improve the Quality of E-Learning?

Viktorija Sulcic, Alja Sulcic

201 - 210

The Discovery Camp: A Talent Fostering Initiative for Developing Research Capabilities among Undergraduate Students

Joerg Evermann, Val Hooper , Pak Yoong , Janet Toland, Eusebio Scornavacca

211 - 225

SMS Banking Services: A 21st Century Innovation in Banking Technology

Emmanuel Rotimi Adagunodo, Oludele Awodele, Olutayo Bamidele Ajayi

227 - 234

On the Relationship between Warranty and the Risk of Information Asymmetry

Dimitar Christozov, Stefanka Chukova, Plamen Mateev

235 - 249

Offshore Outsourcing: New Spin Or Same Old Business

Sudesh M. Duggal, Carl Simkonis

251 - 260

Technology Use, Technology Views: Anticipating ICT Use for Beginning Physical and Health Education Teachers

Volkmar Haase, Josef Smolle, Stefan Vejda, Reinhard Staber, Christian Steinmann, Ingomar Wascher

261 - 267

Strategic Knowledge of Computer Applications: The Key to Efficient Computer Use

Cecille Marsh

269 - 276

Befriending Computer Programming: A Proposed Approach to Teaching Introductory Programming

Iwona Miliszewska , Grace Tan

277 - 289

Users’ Learning of Principles of Computer Operations

Elena Stamatova, Jens Kaasbøll

291 - 306

Concept Maps as a Learning Assessment Tool

Loredana La Vecchia, Marco Pedroni

307 - 312

An Architecture of a Computer Learning Environment for Mapping the Student’s Knowledge Level

Edson P. Pimentel, Nizam Omar

313 - 326

A Comparative Analysis of Common E-Portfolio Features and Available Platforms

Retta Guy , Nicole A. Buzzetto-More

327 - 342

Assessing for Competence Need Not Devalue Grades

Glen Van Der Vyver

343 - 351

It is Time to Add Kurdish Culture to VS .NET Globalization

Azad Ali , Frederick Kohun

353 - 363

Uniting Idaho: A Small Newspaper Serves Hispanic Populations in Distributed Rural Areas

Martine Robinson Beachboard

365 - 379

Analyzing the Affect of Culture on Curricular Content: A Research Conception

Vladimir Burcik, Frederick Kohun, Robert Joseph Skovira

381 - 393

How an “Imperative” IS Development was Saved from a Failing Course of Action – A Case Study

Jeremy Fowler, Pat Horan, Chris Cope

395 - 406

The Cultural Impact of Information Systems – Through the Eyes of Hofstede – A Critical Journey

Michael Jones, Irit Alony

407 - 419

Information Technology and the Work/Cultural Orientations of Americans, Mexicans, and Germans

John E. Merchant, Sylnovie Merchant

421 - 429

Exploring the Influence of Cultural Values on the Acceptance of Information Technology: An Application of the Technology Acceptance Model

Sylnovie Merchant

431 - 443

Valuing IS/IT Resources as an Antecedent of Absorptive Capacity: An RBV Perspective

Hernan Jogler, Julian Chaparro

445 - 459

Using an Outcome-Based Information Technology Curriculum and an E-Learning Platform to Facilitate Student Learning

Azzedine Lansari, Abdallah Tubaishat, Akram Al-Rawi

461 - 471

Applying and Evaluating Understanding-Oriented ICT User Training in Upper Secondary Education

Cornelia Brodahl, Marit Fagernes, Said Hadjerrouit

473 - 490

An Exploration of How a Technology-Facilitated Part-Complete Solution Method Supports the Learning of Computer Programming

Stuart Garner

491 - 501

Project Based Learning and Learning Environments

Frank Kurzel, Michelle Rath

503 - 510

The Educational Potential of Modified Video Games

Andrew Moshirnia

511 - 521

Experimenting with eXtreme Teaching Method – Assessing Students’ and Teachers’ Experiences

Riikka Vuokko, Pia Berg

523 - 534

Advancing Sustainability of Open Educational Resources

Alex Koohang, Keith Harman

535 - 544

MILO – A Proposal of Multiple Intelligences Learning Objects

Hamilton de Matos, Pollyana Notargiacomo Mustaro , Ismar Frango Silveira

545 - 560

Learning Object Educational Narrative Approach (LOENA): Using Narratives for Dynamic Sequencing of Learning Objects

Pollyana Notargiacomo Mustaro , Ismar Frango Silveira

561 - 571

The Interface between Technological Protection Measures and the Exemptions to Copyright under Article 6 Paragraph 4 of the Infosoc Directive and Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Victoria Banti-Markouti

573 - 600

Automatic Conceptual Analysis for Plagiarism Detection

Heinz Dreher

601 - 614

An Integrative View of IS/IT and Organizational Resources and Capabilities

Sergio Araya, Julian Chaparro, Hernan Jogler, Alejandro Orero

629 - 639

Humam Elagha, Maher AlShafee

641 - 649

Meta-Analysis of Clinical Cardiovascular Data towards Evidential Reasoning for Cardiovascular Life Cycle Management

V.Lakshmi Narasimhan, Di Wu, Narander S. Gill

651 - 659

ICT Strategy in an ICT User Perspective: Exploring Alignment between ICT Users and Managers

Harald Fardal

661 - 673

The Various and Conflicting Notions of Information

Karl T. Knox

675 - 689

Finger Length, Digit Ratio and Gender Differences in Sensation Seeking and Internet Self-Efficacy

Peter Eachus

691 - 701

College Transformation through Enabling Agility

Mary McCully, Elizabeth McDaniel

703 - 712

Evaluating ICT Provision in Selected Communities in South Africa

Patience Ngcobo, Marlien Herselman

713 - 724

The Importance of Partnerships: The Relationship between Small Businesses, ICT and Local Communities

Darlington Onojaefe, Marcus Leaning

725 - 737

Effect of Windows XP Firewall on Network Simulation and Testing

Akram Al-Rawi , Azzedine Lansari

739 - 747

A Multi-Criteria Based Approach to Prototyping Urban Road Networks

Atulya Nagar, Hissam Tawfik

749 - 756

Developing a Business Simulation Game: Integrating Multiple Development Tools

Robert Williams, Des Klass

757 - 765

PersistF: A Transparent Persistence Framework with Architecture Applying Design Patterns

Samir Jusic, Lee Sai Peck

767 - 779

Multi-Criteria Spatial Analysis of Building Layouts

Hissam Tawfik, Atulya Nagar, Terrence Fernando

781 - 789

The Concept of an Unstructured Book and the Software to Publish and Read it

Juan R. Bauer Mengelberg

791 - 810

Mobile Learning, Cognitive Architecture and the Study of Literature

Susan Smith Nash

811 - 818

Volume 3, 2006

Remote Method Invocation and Mobil Agent: A Comparative Analysis

G. Adesola Aderounmu, B.O. Oyotakun, Michael Adigun

1 - 11

Performance Modeling of UDP Over IP-Based Wireline and Wireless Networks

Adeniyi Akintola, G. Adesola Aderounmu, A. A. Owojori, Michael Adigun

13 - 21

Adding a new Language to VB .NET Globalization: Making the Case for the Kurdish Languages

Azad Ali , Seever Sulaiman

24 - 31

Preparing Undergraduate Students for IT Certification

Akram Al-Rawi , Faouzi Bouslama , Azzedine Lansari

33 - 44

Honeypot through Web (Honeyd@WEB): The Emerging of Security Application Integration

Nor Badrul Anuar Jumaat, Omar Zakaria, Chong Wei Yao

45 - 56

Marketable, Unique and Experiential IT-Skills Education for Business Students

Peter Baloh , Talib Damij, Peter Vrecar

57 - 67

Reflecting on an Adventure-Based Data Communications Assignment: The ‘Cryptic Quest’

David Banks

69 - 81

A Virtual Learning Environment for Mobile IP

Laura Bergstrom, Kaj J. Grahn, Göran Pulkkis

83 - 101

Navigating the Virtual Forest: How Networked Digital Technologies Can Foster Transgeographic Learning

Nicole A. Buzzetto-More

103 - 112

Semantics, Ontologies and Information Systems in Education: Concerns and Proposals

Antonio Cartelli

113 - 125

Role of Perceived Importance of Information Security: An Exploratory Study of Middle School Children’s Information Security Behavior

127 - 135

Middleware Components for E-commerce Infrastructure: An Analytical Review

Qiyang Chen, James Yao, Ruben Xing

137 - 146

A Measure of Risk Caused by Information Asymmetry in e-Commerce

Dimitar Christozov, Stefanka Chukova, Plamen Mateev

147 - 158

Will It Work? An Initial Examination of the Processes and Outcomes of Converting Course Materials to CD-ROMs

Robert Connoley

159 - 173

Workflows without Engines: Modeling for Today’s Heterogeneous Information Systems

175 - 187

Interactive On-line Formative Evaluation of Student Assignments

Heinz Dreher

189 - 197

Development of the Web Users Self-Efficacy Scale (WUSE)

Peter Eachus, Simon Cassidy

199 - 209

A Principled Methodology for Information Retrieval on the Web

Martin Eayrs

211 - 218

Information Systems Success in the Public Sector: Stakeholders' Perspectives and Emerging Alignment Model

Ivana Elpez, Dieter Fink

219 - 231

Getting Practical With Learning Styles In “Live” and Computer-based Training Settings

Peter Fenrich

233 - 242

Practical IT Education. Deepening of Technology, Expansion of Work, and Development into Headwaters: A Systematic Effort to Achieve Higher Levels

Yoshinori Fujio

243 - 252

The Development, Use and Evaluation of a Program Design Tool in the Learning and Teaching of Software Development

Stuart Garner

253 - 260

Virtual Medical Campus (VMC) Graz: Innovative Curriculum meets Innovative Learning Objects Technology

261 - 267

Software Agents for Managing Learning Plans

I. T. Hawryszkiewycz

269 - 277

What Makes Valuable Pre-experience for Students Entering Programming Courses?

Ed Holden, Elissa Weeden

279 - 293

Information Access for Development: A Case Study at a Rural Community Centre in South Africa

S. J. Jacobs, Marlien Herselman

295 - 306

Principals, Agents and Prisoners: An Economical Perspective on Information Systems Development Practice

Karlheinz Kautz, Bjarke Nielsen

308 - 318

E-learning: Incorporating Information Security Governance

E. Kritzinger, S. H. von Solms

319 - 325

Strategies to Enhance Student Learning in a Capstone MIS Course

Anil Kumar

327 - 332

The Emergence of Modern Biotechnology in China

Shaheen Emmanuel Lakhan

333 - 353

Processes for Ex-ante Evaluation of IT Projects - Case Studies in Brazilian Companies

Fernando José Barbin Laurindo, Renato Oliveira Moraes

355 - 369

Oracle Database Workload Performance Measurement and Tuning Toolkit

Lee Sai Peck, Dzemal Zildzic

371 - 381

An Information Assurance and Security Curriculum Implementation

Samuel Liles, Reza Kamali

383 - 387

Readiness to Communicate in a Digital World

Kathy Lynch

389 - 398

Evolution of the Philosophy of Investments in IT Projects

Ram B. Misra

399 - 409

Video Learning Object Application System: Beyond the Static Reusability

Xiangming Mu, Alex Koohang

411 - 422

M-Learning Management Tool Development in Campus-Wide Environment

Anang Hudaya Muhamad Amin, Ahmad Kamil Mahmud, Ahmad Izuddin Zainal Abidin, Miziana Abdul Rahman

423 - 434

Attitudes toward WebCT and Learning: An Omani Perspective

Syed Jafar Naqvi, Manzur A. Ajiz

435 - 444

A Second Opinion on the Current State of Affairs in Computer Science Education: An Australian Perspective

V.Lakshmi Narasimhan

445 - 458

Cheating or ‘Collaborative Work’: Does it Pay?

E. J. Naude, Tertia Horne

459 - 466

A Memory Optimized Public-Key Crypto Algorithm Using Modified Modular Exponentiation (MME)

A.O. Oluwatope, Anastasis Petrou, G. Adesola Aderounmu, Michael Adigun

467 - 478

End-to-End Performance Evaluation of Selected TCP Variants across a Hybrid Wireless Network

A.O. Oluwatope, A. B. Obabire, G. Adesola Aderounmu, Michael Adigun

479 - 487

Journey to the Center of the Core: Computers and the Internet in the Core Curriculum

Jorge Pérez, Meg Coffin Murray

489 - 497

Development of Scoring Rubrics for Projects as an Assessment Tool across an IS Program

Doncho Petkov, Olga Petkova

499 - 510

Information Retrieval Systems: A Perspective on Human Computer Interaction

Panagiotis Petratos

511 - 518

Collaborative Learning: A Connected Community Approach

John Rae, Carole Roberts, Gary Taylor

519 - 528

The Emotional State of Technology Acceptance

Raafat George Saadé, Dennis Kira

529 - 539

Openness to Experience: An HCI Experiment

Raafat George Saadé, Dennis Kira, Fassil Nebebe, Camille Otrakji

541 - 550

The Application of Semantic Enablers in the Context of Content Management Systems

Samuel Sambasivam, Tilemachos Kanakis

551 - 561

Advanced Data Clustering Methods of Mining Web Documents

Samuel Sambasivam, Nick Theodosopoulos

563 - 579

Entropy: Form Follows Function

Samuel Sambasivam, Vijay Bodas

581 - 600

Effectiveness of Self-selected Teams: A Systems Development Project Experience

Elsje Scott , Michael Pollock

601 - 617

Concept and Rule Based Naming System

Chakkrit Snae , Michael Brückner

619 - 634

Towards Building Secure Software Systems

Adesina S. Sodiya , S. Adebukola Onashoga, Olutayo Bamidele Ajayi

635 - 646

Information Systems Field at the Forks: Relish Diversity or Perish

Bob Travica

647 - 665

ICT Experiences in Two Different Middle Eastern Universities

Abdallah Tubaishat, Arif Bhatti, Eyas El-Qawasmeh

667 - 678

Are Universities to Blame for the IT Careers Crisis?

Michael Lane, Glen Van Der Vyver

679 - 686

Integrating Industrial Practices in Software Development through Scenario-Based Design of PBL Activities: A Pedagogical Re-Organization Perspective

Kam Hou Vat

687 - 708

Where Else Have You Been? The Effects of Diaspora Consciousness and Transcultural Mixtures on Ethnic Identity

Niranjala D. Weerakkody

709 - 720

The Power of Normalised Word Vectors for Automatically Grading Essays

Robert Williams

721 - 729

Quality of Informing: Bias and Disinformation Philosophical Background and Roots

Zbigniew J. Gackowski

732 - 744

Volume 2, 2005

Degrading Grades - Do Graduate Grades Provide a Useful Guide to Potential ICT Employers?

Tony Richardson

1 - 7

A Beginning Specification of a Model for Evaluating Learning Outcomes Grounded in Java Programming Courses

Robert Joseph Skovira

9 - 21

Formative Assessment Visual Feedback in Computer Graded Essays

Robert Williams, Heinz Dreher

23 - 32

CAB - Collaboration across Borders: Peer Evaluation for Collaborative Learning

Janice Whatley, Frances Bell, Jan Shaylor, Danuta Zakrzewska, Elena Zaitseva

33 - 48

Modeling Human Activity Systems for Collaborative Project Development: An IS Development Perspective

Kam Hou Vat

49 - 65

Using Technology-Mediated Learning Environment to Overcome Social and Cultural Limitations in Higher Education

Arif Bhatti, Abdallah Tubaishat, Eyas El-Qawasmeh

67 - 76

"We Work as a Team Really": Gender Homophily on Australian Cotton Farms

Dale Mackrell

77 - 92

Talking Past Each Other - Staff and Student Reflection in Undergraduate Software Projects

Stewart T. Fleming

93 - 102

New Pathways to Learning: The Team Teaching Approach. A Library and Information Science Case Study

Helen Partridge, Gillian Hallam

103 - 118

Online Securities Trading in China

Michelle WL Fong

120 - 128

Common Approaches to Patenting New E-commerce Business Models (a Case Study)

Max Gottlieb, Boris Stavrovski

129 - 138

Teaching System Access Control

Juan R. Bauer Mengelberg

139 - 158

Computer Network Simulation and Network Security Auditing in a Spatial Context of an Organization

Andrzej J. Zaliwski

159 - 168

A Perspective on Achieving Information Security Awareness

Mariana Hentea

169 - 178

A Doctorate Degree Program in Information Systems of a Kind

Frederick Kohun, Azad Ali

179 - 188

Prior Experience and New IT Students

Ed Holden, Elissa Weeden

189 - 204

The Peer Reviews and the Programming Course

T. Grandon Gill

205 - 217

Understanding Information Technology: What do Graduates from Business-oriented IS Curricula Need to Know?

John C. Beachboard, Kevin R. Parker

219 - 236

Azad Ali , Frederick Kohun

237 - 245

Integrating Sun Certification Objectives into an IS Programming

Akram Al-Rawi , Azzedine Lansari, Faouzi Bouslama

247 - 257

Defining the IT Curriculum: The Results of the Past 3 Years

Barry M. Lunt, Joseph J. Ekstrom, Eydie Lawson, Reza Kamali, Jacob Miller, Sandra Gorka, Han Reichgelt

259 - 270

Analysis of Information Systems Management (post)Graduate Program: Case Study of Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Peter Baloh

271 - 285

Understanding Intention to Use Multimedia Information Systems for Learning

Raafat George Saadé, Ian Galloway

287 - 296

Establishing the IT Student’s Perspective to e-Learning: Preliminary Findings from a Queensland University of Technology Case Study

Helen Partridge, Sylvia Edwards

297 - 312

Web Triad: the Impact of Web Portals on Quality of Institutions of Higher Education - Case Study of Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Ales Popovic, Jaka Lindic, Mojca Indihar Stemberger, Jurij Jaklic

313 - 324

Customizing Instruction

Frank Kurzel

325 - 333

Time and the Design of Web-Based Learning Environments

Ari M. Wahlstedt

335 - 345

What Can You Do To Virtually Teach Hands-on Skills?

Peter Fenrich

347 - 354

A Profile of Digital Information Literacy Competencies of High School Students

Sunita Shankar, Muthu Kumar, Uma Natarajan , John G. Hedberg

355 - 368

Towards an Information System Making Transparent Teaching Processes and Applying Informing Science to Education

Antonio Cartelli

369 - 381

Ethical IT Behaviour as a Function of Environment

Tony Jewels, Nina Evans

383 - 393

Exploring the Key Informational, Ethical and Legal Concerns to the Development of Population Genomic Databases for Pharmacogenomic Research

Julia Gladstone

395 - 403

The Effects of Reading Goals on Learning in a Computer Mediated Environment

Betsy A. Schoeller

405 - 422

An Overview: Approaches for the Development of Basic IT Skills

Syed Jafar Naqvi

423 - 430

System Analysis Education Using Simulated Case Studies

Bill Davey, David Kelly

431 - 439

ISExpertNet: Facilitating Knowledge Sharing in the Information Systems Academic Community

Dennis Viehland

441 - 450

Progressive Programming Assignments

Keith J. Whittington

451 - 459

Evaluating Critical Reflection for Postgraduate Students in Computing

461 - 470

Automatically Generating Questions in Multiple Variables for Intelligent Tutoring

Tao Li, Samuel Sambasivam

471 - 480

Use of a Class Exercise to Maximize Student Interest in an Introductory MIS Course

Arup Mukherjee

481 - 491

Resistance to Electronic Medical Records (EMRs): A Barrier to Improved Quality of Care

David B. Meinert

494 - 504

Concept Mapping as a Tool for Curriculum Quality

Elizabeth McDaniel, Brenda Roth, Michael Miller

505 - 513

And What of Intellectual Landscapes in the Future?

James P. McCarthy

515 - 522

Design, Development and Deployment Considerations when Applying Native XML Database Technology to the Programme Management Function of an SME

Samuel Sambasivam, Paul Storey

523 - 541

Discipline Formation in Information Management: Case Study of Scientific and Technological Information Services

Michael Middleton

543 - 558

Information Transfer in Supply Chain Management

Peter Trkman , Mojca Indihar Stemberger, Jurij Jaklic

559 - 573

Matching: Discrimination, Misinformation, and Sudden Death

Gail Thornburg

575 - 589

Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and IT Education

Craig A. VanLengen

591 - 598

Creating a Networking Lab for Business Students

Michael A. Chilton

599 - 608

Performance Analysis of Double Buffer Technique (DBT) Model for Mobility Support in Wireless IP Networks

Adeniyi Akintola, G. Adesola Aderounmu, Michael Adigun

609 - 622

Modeling and Performance Analysis of Dynamic Random Early Detection (DRED) Gateway for Congestion Avoidance

Adeniyi Akintola, G. Adesola Aderounmu, L. A. Akanbi, Michael Adigun

623 - 636

Measurement Data Logging via Bluetooth

Kaj J. Grahn, Christian Dieckert, Frank Schneider, Göran Pulkkis

637 - 657

Software Quality Management supported by Software Agent

Rita C Nienaber, Andries Barnard

659 - 669

An Assessment of Software Project Management Maturity in Mauritius

Aneerav Sukhoo, Andries Barnard, Mariki M. Eloff, John A. Van der Poll

671 - 690

Accommodating Soft Skills in Software Project Management

Aneerav Sukhoo, Andries Barnard, Mariki M. Eloff, John A. Van der Poll, Mahendrenath Motah

691 - 703

The Digital Divide and K-12 Student Computer Use

James N. Morgan, Craig A. VanLengen

705 - 722

Redesign of Stand-Alone Applications into Thin-Client/Server

Michel Van der Vlugt, Samuel Sambasivam

723 - 742

Using a Blackboard Architecture in a Web Application

Christiane Metzner, Leonardo Cortez, Doritza Chacín

743 - 755

The Performance of Web-based 2-tier Middleware Systems

Johnson Dehinbo

757 - 769

An Actor Network Approach to Informing Clients through Portals

Arthur Tatnall , Bill Davey

771 - 779

Online Handwritten Character Recognition Using an Optical Backpropagation Neural Network

Walid A. Salameh, Mohammed A. Otair

787 - 795

Volume 1, 2004

Deakin Online: An Evolving Case Study

Jo Coldwell, Douglas Newlands

1 - 10

A Framework for Teaching Mobile and Wireless Technology

Ric Jentzsch, Masoud Mohammadian

11 - 22

Integrating E-Learning Content into Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Curriculum

Paul Hawking, Brendan McCarthy

23 - 30

Web ACE – A Study in Reciprocal Informing

Iwona Miliszewska , Grace Tan

31 - 40

Customer Service Factors Influencing Internet Shopping in New Zealand

Jairo Gutiérrez, Zhuojun Zhao

41 - 53

Development and Validation of an Instrument for Assessing Users’ Views about the Usability of Digital Libraries

Alex Koohang

55 - 63

Information Quality: The Relationship to Recruitment in Pre-Tertiary IT Education

Kaylene Clayton

65 - 77

Does Technology Impact on Teaching Styles or Do Teaching Styles Impact on Technology in the Delivery of Higher Education?

Tony Jewels, Carmen de Pablos Heredero, Marilyn Campbell

79 - 95

Music in Cyberspace

Michelle WL Fong

97 - 103

Preparing Teachers for the Challenges of Technology Integration

Mélina Ziegel

105 - 113

Critical Thinking and Reasoning for Information Systems Students

Theda Thomas, Timothy Davis, Alanah Kazlauskas

115 - 131

What is the Place of Innovative ICT Uses in School Counseling?

Marilyn Campbell

133 - 140

How Much Can We Spare with E-business: Examining the Effects in Supply Chain Management

Liljana Ferbar

141 - 155

On-line Learning and Ontological Engineering

Samuel Sambasivam, Tao Li

157 - 170

Web Supported Group Learning

I. T. Hawryszkiewycz

171 - 178

Contextual Factors and Administrative Changes

Davood Askarany, Malcolm Smith

179 - 188

Making a CASE for Using the Students Choice of Software or Systems Development Tools

Barbara Howell

189 - 205

Web Based vs. Web Supported Learning Environment – A Distinction of Course Organizing or Learning Style?

Hong Wu

207 - 214

Working in a Group before Meeting Face-to-Face – A Case of International Student Online Project

Gunnar Andersson, Mathias Wilichowski

215 - 226

Information Systems Development Methodologies and all that Jazz

Lukasz Michalec, David Banks

227 - 235

Software Development: Informing Sciences Perspective

Borislav Roussev, Yvonna Rousseva

237 - 245

Behavioural Issues in Software Development: The Evolution of a New Course Dealing with the Psychology of Computer Programming

John Lenarcic

247 - 252

Cyber Crime Influencing Businesses in South Africa

Marlien Herselman, Matthew J. Warren

253 - 266

Guiding Students Learning Project Team Management from Their Own Practice

Wanwu Guo

267 - 277

Communication Management and Control in Distance Learning Scenarios

Freimut Bodendorf, Manfred Schertler

279 - 288

A Framework for Student Assessment using Applied Simulation

Tony Richardson

289 - 294

Biases and Heuristics in Judgment and Decision Making: The Dark Side of Tacit Knowledge

Tayyab Maqsood, Andrew Finegan, Helen L. Armstrong

295 - 301

Promoting Fusion in the Business-IT Relationship

Nina Evans

303 - 312

Exploring the Research Ethics Domain for Postgraduate Students in Computing

Kay Fielden

313 - 330

The Roles of Challenge and Skill in the Flow Experiences of Web Users

Steven Pace

331 - 340

A Single Case Study Approach to Teaching: Effects on Learning and Understanding

Tony Jewels, Marilyn Ford

359 - 372

Computer Use and Immersion in a Non-IT Course

H. David Brecht, Suzanne M. Ogilby, Eugene Sauls

373 - 384

A New State Model for Internetworks Technology

S. Paul Maj, Gurpreet Kohli

385 - 392

Share, Collaborate, Create Virtual Conferences

Jorge Coll, Rosanna Del Vecchio, Christiane Metzner, Eugenio Scalise, Hector Arrechedera, Maria Dolores Farina

393 - 405

Extended Object Languages for the Extolware Persistence Framework

Lim Tong Ming, Lee Sai Peck

407 - 416

Collaborative Work Skills for the Beginning IS Professional

Kathy Lynch

417 - 429

Students’ Pedagogical Preferences in the Delivery of IT Capstone Courses

Kathy Lynch, Annegret Goold, Jenny Blain

431 - 442

Communication and Cooperation: Technology Transfer on Australian Family Cotton Farms

Dale Mackrell

443 - 454

Teaching and Learning with BlueJ: an Evaluation of a Pedagogical Tool

Kelsey Van Haaster, Dianne Hagan

455 - 470

The Human Dimension on Distance Learning: A Case Study of a Telecommunications Company

Marina Keiko Nakayama, Bianca Smith Pilla, Erlaine Binotto, Ricardo Azambuja Silveira

471 - 487

Project-Based Learning in Online Postgraduate Education

Des Matejka

489 - 496

The SWIMS CD-ROM Pilot: Using Community Development Principles and Technologies of the Information Society to Address Identified Informational Needs

Daniel Teghe, Bruce Allen Knight, Cecily Knight

497 - 508

A Case to Do Empirical Study Using Educational Projects

Mingyang Gu

509 - 520

ERP Systems and User Perceptions: An Approach for Implementation Success

Xavier Thavaruban Thavapragasam

521 - 531

Assessing the Impact of Instructional Methods and Information Technology on Student Learning Styles

Poonam Kumar, Anil Kumar, Karl L. Smart

533 - 544

Technology and Marginalization: A Case Study of the Limited Adoption of the Intranet at a State-owned Organization in Rural Australia

Niranjala D. Weerakkody

545 - 564

Introducing Instruction into a Personalised Learning Environment

Frank Kurzel

565 - 572

Restructuring an Undergraduate Database Management Course for Business Students

Mali Senapathi

573 - 583

A Web Services-Oriented Approach to Unlock Information

Youcef Baghdadi

585 - 596

Searching for Tomorrow's Programmers

Michael de Raadt

597 - 603

Insights into Using Agile Development Methods in Student Final Year Projects

Roy I. Morien

605 - 624

Retrofitting Generic Graduate Attributes: A Case-Study of Information Systems Undergraduate Programs

Mark Toleman, Dave Roberts, Charmaine Ryan

625 - 635

Misinforming Knowledge through Ontology

Bill Davey, Arthur Tatnall

637 - 643

A Contribution to Defining the Term ‘Definition’

Sead Spuzic, Fons Nouwens

645 - 662

Do Project Manager’s Utilise Potential Customers in E-Commerce Developments?

Julian Terry , Craig Standing

663 - 672

Robert Williams, Heinz Dreher

693 - 700

Creation of Anticipatory Information Support for Virtual Organizations between System(S) Theory and System Thinking

Vojko Potocan, Matjaž Mulej

701 - 713

Challenge or Chaos: A Discourse Analysis of Women’s Perceptions of the Culture of Change in the IT Industry

Sue H. Nielsen, Liisa von Hellens, Jenine Beekhuyzen

715 - 727

Factors Influencing the Decision to Choose Information Technology Preparatory Studies in Secondary Schools: An Exploratory Study in Regional/Rural Australia

Glen Van Der Vyver , Debbie Crabb, Michael Lane

729 - 739

Enterprise Applications Portfolio Management Utilizing COTS

Masafumi Kotani

741 - 745

Visions of a Wireless Future in Education Technology

Gavin Russell, Ian Pitt

747 - 752

Public Perceptions of Biometric Devices: The Effect of Misinformation on Acceptance and Use

Janette Moody

753 - 761

Action-Guidance: An Action Research Project for the Application of Informing Science in Educational and Vocational Guidance

Antonio Cartelli

763 - 772

FEATURED

Evaluation of Web Pages as a Tool in Public Relations

Peter Trkman , Jaka Lindic

773 - 792

A Comparison of Learning and Teaching Styles – Self-Perception of IT Students

Zlatko J. Kovacic

793 - 804

IT Educators and IT Adoption

Sharlett Gillard

805 - 811

A Data Model Validation Approach for Relational Database Design Courses

Kevin R. Parker

813 - 825

Higher Education Course Content: Paper-Based, Online or Hybrid Course Delivery?

Glen Van Der Vyver , Michael Lane

827 - 844

What to Teach Business Students in MIS Courses about Data and Information

Zbigniew J. Gackowski

845 - 867

Exploring Change and Innovation by ICT Teaching Staff in the New Zealand Polytechnic Sector

Christo Potgieter

869 - 884

A Computer Hardware/Software/Services Planning and Selection Course for the CIS/IT Curriculum

John Maniotes, Charles R. Winer

885 - 895

ICT Education and Training in Sub-Saharan Africa: Multimode versus Traditional Distance Learning

Joey Jansen van Vuuren, Petrie Coetzee

897 - 903

A Markov Decision Process Model for Traffic Prioritisation Provisioning

Abdullah Gani, Omar Zakaria, Nor Badrul Anuar Jumaat

905 - 913

Returning the ‘I’ in the ‘IT’ Education of MScIS/MBA Professionals

Peter Baloh

915 - 929

The Evaluation of a Computer Ethics Program

Graeme Byrne, Lorraine Staehr

931 - 939

On the Idea of Organization Transformation: The IS/IT Design Challenge in Systems Thinking

Kam Hou Vat

941 - 950

Web-enhanced Course

Virginia MacEntee, Barbara Lewis

951 - 964

Are All Learners Created Equal? A Quantitative Analysis of Academic Performance in a Distance Tertiary Institution

Zlatko J. Kovacic , John Green

965 - 976

Towards a Structural Model Connecting Hard Skills, Soft Skills and Job Conditions and the IS Professional: The Student Perspective

Rodney Turner

977 - 991

Towards an Interactive Learning Environment for Object-Z

Selvarajah Mohanarajah, Ray Kemp, Elizabeth Kemp

993 - 1003

The Usage of E-Learning Material to Support Good Communication with Learners

Hanafizan Hussain

1005 - 1015

e-HR and Employee Self Service: A Case Study of a Victorian Public Sector Organisation

Paul Hawking, Andrew Stein, Susan Foster

1017 - 1026

Logical Soft Systems Methodology for Education Programme Development

Ho-Leung (Raymond) Tsoi

1027 - 1035

Manufacturing Organizational Memory: Logged Conversation Thread Analysis

Masafumi Kotani

1037 - 1042

Human-Computer Interaction Gearing Up for Work

Elspeth McKay, Trang Thomas, Jenny Martin

1043 - 1052

Issues in Implementing CRM: A Case Study

Rui Da Silva, Ilan Rahimi

1053 - 1064

Information Security Management: A Research Project

Pramod Pandya, Reza Frazin

1065 - 1072

Connecting with the Y Generation: an Analysis of Factors Associated with the Academic Performance of Foundation IS Students

Rohan Genrich, Dave Roberts, Aileen Cater-Steel, Ee Kuan Low

1073 - 1088

Organisational Paradigms and Network Centric Organisations

Irena Ali, Leoni Warne, Derek Bopping, Dennis Hart, Celina Pascoe

1089 - 1096

Towards Egocentric Way-Finding Appliances Supporting Navigation in Unfamiliar Terrain

Christopher Lueg , Nicola Bidwell

1097 - 1104

Location-Oriented Knowledge Management in a Tourism Context: Connecting Virtual Communities to Physical Locations

Christopher Lueg

1105 - 1113

Informing with Workflow Technologies

Nelly Gackowska

1115 - 1115

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