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Promoting Relevance in IS Research: An
Informing System for Design Science Research
By Bill Kuechler, Vijay Vaishnavi © 2011. Informing Science Institute
Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, Volume 14
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The relevance gap between academic research and the world of practice is a perennial topic of
discussion in all fields, including the information technology disciplines. The common sense view
of the issue concludes that academic research frequently fails to address the 'street level' problems
that business information technology wrestles with, and so isn't interesting to practice. This
is primarily a content issue, one that Informing Science characterizes as the academic fascination
with easily decomposable problems which leads to the tendency to over-research models that are
obvious or trivial to practice... |
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Keywords
research methods; design science; relevance; research rigor, informing sciences
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The Informing Science Institute:
The Informing System of a Transdiscipline
By William F. Murphy, Jr © 2011. Informing Science Institute
Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, Volume 14
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The Informing Science Institute (ISI) is an informing system, designed using informing science
principles, for the express purpose of informing researchers who study problems related to informing.
The ISI provides several informing channels, including peer reviewed journals, conferences,
books, and outreach activities. The ISI seeks to resonate with university researchers to
provide rigorous and relevant information about informing research. The ISI prints and electronically
publishes peer reviewed scientific literature concerning the transdiscipline of informing science
at no charge to the authors or readers, with open access for all, in eight academic journals... |
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Keywords
Informing Science Institute, open access, information systems, transdiscipline, informing
systems
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Towards an Information Sharing Pedagogy:
A Case of Using Facebook
in a Large First Year Class
By Patient Rambe, Dick Ng'ambi © 2011. Informing Science Institute
Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, Volume 14
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One of the challenges of using multiple dialogues from a transdisciplinary-informing network of
heterogeneous collective of Informers and Clients is appropriating the channel to cognitively shift
agents. The role of Facebook as an Informing Network and how both Informers and Clients
transform in the process of use has not been exploited. The convergence of agents' cognitive shift
and transformative effect during use, paves a way for Information Sharing Pedagogy of heterogeneous
informing networks. The paper reports on a study of 850 first year students, over 400 Facebook
postings, and employs a Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) to uncover tensions
between the informality and identities of learners in Facebook environments, and the educators'
conceptions of academic uses of Facebook... |
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Keywords
Facebook, Information Sharing, Pedagogy, Activity Theory.
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The Information Age Measurement Paradox:
Collecting Too Much Data
By Nitza Geri, Yariv Geri © 2011. Informing Science Institute
Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, Volume 14
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Information overload is one of the major challenges of management in the information age. Usually,
the emphasis in the literature is on incoming information, whereas the creation of information
or data is rarely discussed. This paper presents the measurement paradox and demonstrates
how managerial decisions, or monitoring conventions, cause collection of tremendous amounts of
unnecessary data. The measurement paradox is observed when advanced technologies, such as
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, which are intended to improve control and provide
managers with better information, collect ample data, most of which are unnecessary... |
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Keywords
attention economy, activity-based costing/management (ABC/M), cost accounting,
managerial accounting, Theory of Constraints (TOC), information management, control.
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Informing: A Cognitive Load Perspective
By Slava Kalyuga © 2011. Informing Science Institute
Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, Volume 14
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In instructional psychology, cognitive load theory has applied knowledge of processing limitations
of human cognitive system to enhance effectiveness of instructional procedures and information
presentation formats. Underlying assumptions and principles of cognitive load theory are
based on a recently proposed evolutionary perspective that regards both human cognitive architecture
and biological evolution as natural information processing systems. This paper explores a
possibility of extending the established conceptual framework of cognitive load theory to broader
processes of informing with the aim of enhancing their effectiveness... |
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Keywords
informing, cognitive load theory, human cognitive architecture, evolutionary perspective,
natural information processing systems, instructional psychology, instructional design,
sources of cognitive load, ICT-based learning
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When What is Useful is Not Necessarily True:
The Underappreciated Conceptual Scheme
By T. Grandon Gill © 2011. Informing Science Institute
Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, Volume 14
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A major emphasis of research in informing science and its contributing disciplines is the development
of theory. As it is most commonly used, the term theory refers to our attempt to describe—
in symbolic terms—some underlying truth. Through developing such descriptions, we
seek to improve our understanding of phenomena that occur in the natural or social world and,
perhaps, enhance our ability to make predictions of such phenomena.
Theory creation and validation, however, are not the only possible goals for research... |
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Keywords
theory, conceptual scheme, complexity, informing science, research methods.
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Attitudes and Influences toward Choosing a
Business Major: The Case of Information Systems
By James P. Downey, Ronnie McGaughey, David Roach © 2011. Informing Science Institute
Journal of Information Technology Education, Volume 10
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Declining enrollment in MIS Departments in Colleges of Business has been the norm for many if
not most universities since the dot.com bust of 2000. This has serious repercussions for the departments
involved, students, and the companies that hire MIS graduates. In order to reverse this
trend, an understanding of the important factors which influence students to choose a major is
critical. Of crucial importance for MIS Departments is understanding the competition: the majors
students choose instead of MIS... |
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Keywords
Choice of major, Information technology, IT careers, Management Information Systems
(MIS), Business majors, Careers, Structural Equation Modeling.
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The Effect of Using E-Learning Tools
in Online and Campus-based Classrooms
on Student Performance
By Edith Galy, Clara Downey, and Jennie Johnson © 2011. Informing Science Institute
Journal of Information Technology Education, Volume 10
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Creating an integrative research framework that extends a model frequently used in the Information
Systems field, the Technology Acceptance Model, together with variables used in the Education field,
this empirical study investigates the factors influencing student performance as reflected by their final
course grade. The Technology Acceptance Model explains computer acceptance in general terms.
The model measures the impact of external variables on internal beliefs, attitudes, and intentions. Perceived
Usefulness and Perceived Ease of Use, two main constructs in the model, refer to an individual's
perception of how the adoption of a new technology will increase their efficiency, and the individual's
perception of how easy the technology will be to use... |
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Keywords
E-Learning Tools, Technology
Acceptance Model (TAM), Perceived Usefulness,
Perceived Ease of Use, , Computer
Self-Efficacy, Computer Anxiety, Ability to
Work Independently, Distance Education
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Students' Strategies for Exception Handling
By Rami Rashkovits, Ilana Lavy © 2011. Informing Science Institute
Journal of Information Technology Education, Volume 10
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This study discusses and presents various strategies employed by novice programmers concerning
exception handling. The main contributions of this paper are as follows: we provide an analysis
tool to measure the level of assimilation of exception handling mechanism; we present and analyse
strategies to handle exceptions; we present and analyse solutions provided by novice programmers;
we classify and analyse the participants reflections concerning their solutions. Modern
programming languages, such as Java, provide the programmer an elaborated object oriented
exception mechanism; enable him to handle exceptions in a more convenient way... |
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Keywords
Exception handling; class hierarchy; source code quality
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Investigating Factors Affecting the Uptake of
Automated Assessment Technology
By Carl Dreher, Torsten Reiners, Heinz Dreher © 2011. Informing Science Institute
Journal of Information Technology Education, Volume 10
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Automated assessment is an emerging innovation in educational praxis, however its pedagogical
potential is not fully utilised in Australia, particularly regarding automated essay grading. The
rationale for this research is that the usage of automated assessment currently lags behind the capacity
that the technology provides, thus restricting the pedagogical benefits for students, job satisfaction
for staff, and quality assurance and financial benefits for universities. The exploration of
the different perspectives of stakeholders regarding their needs and expectations of automated
assessment shows the high-stake game of surviving and thriving... |
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Keywords
Educational assessment; automated assessment; automated essay grading; online survey;
constructivist grounded theory analysis.
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Information Orientation, Information Technology
Governance, and Information Technology Service
Management: A Multi-level Approach for Teaching
the MBA Core Information Systems Course
By John Beachboard, Kregg Aytes © 2011. Informing Science Institute
Journal of Information Technology Education, Volume 10
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Core MBA IT courses have tended to be survey courses that cover important topics but often do
not sufficiently engage students. The result is that many top-ranked MBA programs have not
found such courses useful enough to include in their core MBA requirements. In this paper, we
present a design of an MBA course emphasizing information technology and intending to be a
valuable part of a core MBA program.
The primary audience for this course is the general MBA student, and the primary teaching objectives
of the course are for students to (1) recognize that IT plays a vital role in the functioning of
most modern organizations, (2) recognize that the effective application of IT requires the active
engagement of non-IT as well as IT management, and (3) acquire the tools and concepts necessary
for non-IT managers to participate in the effective management of an enterprise's IT resources... |
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Keywords
MBA Core IS course, information orientation, IT service management, IT governance
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Critical Success Attributes of Transnational IT
Education Programmes: The Client Perspective
By Iwona Miliszewska, Ewa M. Sztendur © 2011. Informing Science Institute
Journal of Information Technology Education, Volume 10
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How can transnational education (TNE) programs be made more effective? According to the literature,
no one is in a better position to comment on this question than the students themselves.
At the same time, there is a recognized scarcity in the literature of student input into the issue of
transnational program effectiveness. In consideration of this need, a research study was conducted
to examine the effectiveness of TNE programs from the student perspective. To this end, transnational
students' views on the various dimensions of the TNE context were used as a key indicator
of the effectiveness of transnational programs... |
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Keywords
instruction, learning environment, program attributes, program effectiveness, student
perspectives, transnational education.
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Developing Information Technology Fluency in College
Students: An Investigation of Learning Environments
and Learner Characteristics
By Nancy B. Sardone © 2011. Informing Science Institute
Journal of Information Technology Education, Volume 10
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The confluence of powerful technologies of computers and network connectivity has brought explosive
growth to the field of Information Technology (IT). The problem presented in this study
is whether the type of learning environment where IT concepts are taught to undergraduates has a
relationship to the development of IT fluency and course satisfaction. The literature suggested
that, if learning environments based on constructivist learning strategies were used, students
would achieve IT fluency as well as those who studied in a traditional setting but they might be
more satisfied... |
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Keywords
college students, constructivism, information technology fluency, learning environments,
learning styles
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Adapting Peer Review to an Online Course:
An Exploratory Case Study
By Linda V. Knight, Theresa A. Steinbach © 2011. Informing Science Institute
Journal of Information Technology Education, Volume 10
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With demonstrated benefits to higher level learning, peer review in the classroom has been well
researched and popular since at least the 1990s. However, little or no prior studies exist into the
peer review process for online courses. Further, we found no prior research specifically addressing
the operational aspects of online peer review. This research addresses that gap by comparing
the issues involved in managing peer review for an online course with those for a traditional
classroom course. In an exploratory case study, two sections of the same introductory level
course were taught by the same professor in the same academic term, one section in the traditional
classroom and one as an online section... |
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Keywords
peer review, online course, online teaching, online learning, online education, HTML
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Reliability and Factor Analysis of a Blackboard
Course Management System Success:
A Scale Development and Validation in an
Educational Context
By Adeyinka Tella © 2011. Informing Science Institute
Journal of Information Technology Education, Volume 10
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em success levels. Theoretically, this study contributes significantly
to the identification of educational oriented factors (teaching and learning quality, students' self regulated
learning) that may lead to Blackboard CMS by modifying the factors pioneered and
revised by Delone and Mclean (1992, 2003). In summary, the study discovered that content quality,
system quality, support service quality, teaching and learning quality, self-regulated learning,
intention to use, user satisfaction, and net benefits are important dimensions for measuring Blackboard
CMS success... |
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Keywords
Factor analysis, E-learning, Course management system, WebCT/Blackboard, Scale
development, Educational context, University of Botswana
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