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Track Chairs:

Asli Akbulut-Bailey, Grand Valley State University,  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Geoffrey Dick, Georgia Southern University,  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Mary Granger, George Washington University,  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Track Description:

Information systems educators face a number of challenges in the current environment, including dealing with declining enrollment, preparing students for the changes in the profession and updating curriculum to integrate new ideas and technologies. These challenges make sharing IS education-related knowledge and practices especially critical. Therefore, it is essential that leading conferences, such as AMCIS, include a strong information systems education track.

As the official AIS special interest group on education, SIGED is uniquely positioned to organize an information systems education track. 

This track provides an opportunity for information systems educators and researchers to exchange ideas, techniques, and applications through a combination of workshops, panels and paper presentations.  The focus is on innovation and quality advances in IS and MIS instruction and curriculum. Different submission topics are welcome, ranging from papers aimed at improving the teaching of specific course to “big picture” papers intended to address broad topics. In particular, papers addressing teaching of sustainable Information Systems are invited and submissions using information systems technology to advance education in other disciplines are also welcome.

Suggested Topics:

  • Assessment of IS Courses and Curricula - SIGPAA
  • Information technology in Education
  • Virtual learning environments
  • Mobile Education
  • Pedagogical and curricular innovations in IS education
  • Social issues related to IS education
  • Ethical issues in the IS curriculum
  • The importance of IS in functional areas
  • Improving enrollments in IS programs
  • Teaching cases

Mini-Tracks:


Mini-Track: Technology Enhanced Collaborative Learning

Rassule Hadidi, University of Illinois Springfield, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Over the last few decades Information and Telecommunication Technologies (ITT) have played a significant role in facilitating collaboration among individuals and organizations around the globe. In particular, the use of collaborative systems for teaching and learning between faculty and students and among students has increased considerably. The focus of this mini-track is to explore theoretical and practical ways to incorporate and improve teaching and learning in general, online and blended learning in particular, by focusing on the application of these collaborative systems to facilitate and foster collaborative learning and teaching.

Possible topics include but are not limited to the following:

Adoption & Diffusion:

  • Task-technology-fit Models for Collaborative Learning
  • Support/Training Structures
  • Individual & Organizational Barriers
  • Usability
  • User Satisfaction
  • Distributed Collaborative Systems
  • Theoretical Collaborative Learning Models
  • Collaborative Tools and Technologies
  • Collaborative Learning Resources

Effects of use:

  • Effectiveness and Efficiency Measurements of Learning Technologies
  • Collaborative Learning Structures and Techniques
  • Collaborative Learning Strategies
  • Outcome Metrics and Lessons Learned
  • Interaction Techniques in Collaborative Learning

Management of Systems:

  • Institutional Support and Structures
  • Technological Capacities and Limitations
  • Inter-organizational Policies and Limitations
  • Strategic Issues
  • State-of-the-art Practices


Quality Programs through Assessment and Accreditation

Carolyn Jacobson, Pennsylvania College of Technology, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Georgia Kasper, Virginia Commonwealth University
Paul Leidig, Grand Valley State University

As employers, prospective students and their parents, and citizens in general demand assurance of quality educational programs, information systems educators must be able to document their programs’ effectiveness, demonstrating that they provide quality education and enable students to acquire the skills and expertise expected of professionals in the field. Increasingly, collegiate programs around the globe must be able to demonstrate their value. With technology evolving so rapidly, institutions must engage in continuous quality improvement.


General Track for IS Education

Asli Akbulut-Bailey, Grand Valley State University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The General mini-track is intended to include any topic that has not been proposed in another mini-track under the IS Education track.  Please see the broad guidelines of the track as above; accepted submissions will be grouped together for sessions.

 Suggested Topics

  • Virtual learning environments
  • Online classes and students
  • Mobile Education
  • Pedagogical and curricular innovations in IS education
  • Social media in IS Education
  • Social issues related to IS education
  •  Ethical issues in the IS curriculum
  • The importance of IS in functional areas
  • Teaching SAP with ERPsim in IS courses and “gamification” of the curriculum
  • Improving enrollments in IS programs
  • Teaching cases