E-Commerce Courses: Overview of Nature and Content

Abstract

This article examines the content of e-commerce course syllabi available electronically on the World Wide Web. Two data sources, Google Web Directory for E-Commerce Courses and ISWorld Net's Electronic Course Syllabi Page, provided 65 usable course syllabi representing 47 colleges and universities. Our analysis revealed that most of the courses were graduate level and used between one and four textbooks as the primary reading source. The books, nontextbook reading sources, and topics covered varied. No one book or nontextbook reading source predominated among the courses; and electronic payment systems, security issues, and business models were the only topics covered the majority of the time.