Abstract
Since more than a decade, all kinds of businesses and organisations are intensively exploring enterprise-level information systems to better integrate their business processes, information flows and people. Consequently, the industry demands for technically skilled, but also “business-savvy” IT professionals are permanently growing. To meet this need, more and more computing education programs try to incorporate enterprise-level information systems into their curricula. While there is some computing education research done to investigate the need for this new type of IT-business professional and to analyse general implications for higher education, only very few research works or practice papers exist which report on concrete attempts to design and deliver higher education computing courses which intensively use enterprise-level systems. In this paper, the author reports on a series of experiences made within the Bachelor of Science (Information Systems Management) degree program offered by the School of Information Systems (SIS) at the Singapore Management University (SMU). The primary focus of this paper is put on establishing a working set of best practices for the design of an effective structure of the face-to-face teaching sessions for courses which use enterprise-level systems and applications in their curricula. While this paper is principally based on education experiences made within the frame of an Information Systems program, the best practices presented in this paper are equally applicable to any other computing education field or even to the engineering education in general.
Highlights
More and more organisations, businesses and institutions are attempting to break down the traditional silobased working style by integrating their people, processes and information flows
Research works or practice papers exist which report on concrete attempts to design and deliver higher education courses which make an intensive use of enterprise-level information systems in their course curricula
The author reports on a series of experiences made within the Bachelor of Science (Information Systems Management) degree program offered by the School of Information Systems (SIS) at the Singapore Management University (SMU)
Summary
Businesses and institutions are attempting to break down the traditional silobased working style by integrating their people, processes and information flows. The industry is increasingly looking for technically skilled, and “business-savvy” IT professionals who are capable of designing, delivering and supporting such an integrative and collaborative information systems environment in an organisation This demand puts enormous pressure on higher education institutions. Research works or practice papers exist which report on concrete attempts to design and deliver higher education courses which make an intensive use of enterprise-level information systems in their course curricula. The focus of this paper is put on describing the challenges related to establishing an effective and stable structure of the face-to-face weekly teaching sessions for courses which use enterprise-level systems and applications in their curricula. Based on insights and experiences reported in section four, section five of the paper builds a set of best practices and presents three structure models for face-to-face teaching sessions of technology-intensive university-level computing courses. The paper concludes with a series of recommendations for those university-level computing educators who are determined to design and deliver undergraduate level information systems courses involving enterprise level software packages
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