Innovation in IT education—practising what we preach

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 1997-09-01 DOI:10.4018/IRMJ.1997100102

J. Burn, Louis C. K. Ma

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Abstract

The changing skills requirements for the information systems professionals of the nineties has forced many universities to reconsider their curriculum. The concept of a generic curriculum to meet the educational needs of all future IS professionals is obsolete and IS curriculum design must be targeted at specific career tracks. This paper describes the development of an innovative program to cultivate the "hybrid" business and information systems manager who can play a major role in strategy formulation for effective use of information technology. In order to sustain a high degree of relevancy to the needs of the business community, an action research approach is used which allows the students to build up case portfolios through an organizational cultural audit. These cases have initiated and supported considerable research work from Faculty and provide a longitudinal study of IS development, application and growth. In particular, they have been invaluable as input to our research program on IS strategy formulation as significant patterns of change have been seen to evolve. These relate to a number of contingent factors which would have been impossible to explore through individual research studies.

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创新资讯科技教育-言出必行

90年代对信息系统专业人员不断变化的技能要求迫使许多大学重新考虑他们的课程设置。满足所有未来信息系统专业人员教育需求的通用课程的概念已经过时，信息系统课程设计必须针对特定的职业轨迹。本文描述了一项创新计划的发展，以培养“混合”业务和信息系统经理，他们可以在有效利用信息技术的战略制定中发挥主要作用。为了保持与商业社区需求的高度相关性，采用行动研究方法，允许学生通过组织文化审计建立案例组合。这些案例启动并支持了学院的大量研究工作，并提供了对信息系统发展、应用和增长的纵向研究。特别是，随着重大变化模式的演变，它们对我们关于IS战略制定的研究项目的投入是无价的。这些都与一些偶然因素有关，而这些因素是不可能通过个人研究来探索的。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.