Information Systems Course Research Articles

Practice and Effectiveness of Understanding by Design Combined with WebQuest in a Management Information Systems Course

Practice and Effectiveness of Understanding by Design Combined with WebQuest in a Management Information Systems Course

The Practice of Project-Based Learning in a Management Information Systems Course for Graduate Students

The Project-Based Learning (PBL) is a contextualized learning method based on constructivist theory, enabling students to learn knowledge by applying knowledge and conducting experiments. Most researcher in PBL focused on the K-12 and undergraude students, less focused on graduate students. This article integrates PBL into the teaching practice activities of a management information systems (MIS) course for graduate students and constructs a PBL process consisting of four stages: startup period, middle period, presentation period, and closing period. It aims to address the practical application of relevant theories of MIS and the application of emerging information technologies in solving practical problems, so as to improve students' active construction ability of course knowledge and effectively enhance their team collaboration ability.

Technology-enhanced Learning in Information Systems Education

The COVID-19 pandemic significantly disrupted higher education but also accelerated the adoption of technology-enhanced learning and innovative teaching practices to promote student-centred learning in higher education. Nevertheless, traditional, didactic, teacher-centred approaches in university teaching are still prevalent. Specifically, Information Systems (IS) and other technology-related disciplines are expected to adopt technological innovations more readily. Moving beyond the pandemic, there is a need to reassess the current state of Information Systems education and explore technologies that have been effectively deployed to identify best practices. This study involves reviewing thirteen subjects as part of a Master of Information Systems course offered by one of Australia’s leading universities. It aims to identify innovative technology-enhanced practices that promote student-centred learning, assess their adoption levels and impact, and reflect on any difficulties hindering their adoption. We identified three innovative technology applications that effectively facilitate student-centred learning: web-based interactive content, online collaborative workspaces, and simulation games. However, we found that these technologies are primarily adopted for tutorials. Nevertheless, the use of technology has led to a notable shift from the traditional teaching approach to a flipped classroom model. The findings highlight the need for university-wide support, policy changes, and investments in time, resources, and staff training to enhance student-centred learning through the use of technology.

Students' Perception Towards the Implementation of Project Based-Learning in Geographic Information System Course

Project Based Learning (PJBL) is a learning model that can organize projects in learning. PJBL can provide opportunities for a student-centered learning system. This learning model is believed to be able to provide solutions to the problems of the education process in Indonesia which is still not optimal. Geographic Information Systems course is a compulsory course in epidemiology specialization. The main objective of the study was to determine student perceptions of the application of the PjBL model in the Geographic Information Systems course. This study used a cross-sectional study design with a sample size of 37 students. Data collection was carried out using a structured questionnaire that had been tested for validity and reliability. Data processing and analysis using IBM SPSS 25.0 software. The results showed that students' perceptions of the implementation of GIS course PJBL predominantly agreed followed by strongly agreed with the implementation of PJBL. This study concludes that student perceptions of the implementation of PPA in Geographic Information Systems courses are very good.

PENGEMBANGAN MODEL PEMBELAJARAN METODE KASUS BERBASIS PROYEK PADA MATA KULIAH SISTEM INFORMASI MANAJEMEN

Participatory and cooperative classes are part of the key performance indicators that are mandatory for universities in their fulfillment. National higher education standards state that case studies and project-based learning can both be used for teaching. However, students at the Nobel Institute of Technology and Business Indonesia have not been given knowledge about how to think at a higher level and solve cases that occur in the world of work. Using the project-based case method, this study aims to create a learning model for the Management Information System (MIS) course in an effort to support the application of the learning outcomes-based curriculum (OBE). Research & Development (R&D) research methodology uses the ADDIE model (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Evaluation). Instructional analysis of learning outcomes; Semester Learning Plan (RPS); Lecture Event Unit (SAP); Learning Implementation Plan (RPP); and textbooks are some of the outputs of this research through the project-based Case Method Learning Model (CMT).

Case Article—Budding with ERP: Information and Operations Management Challenges in a Nascent Industry

The role of analytics in operations and supply chain management (OSCM) has gained significant importance due to the decision-making complexities in the current business environment. The effectiveness of most analytical approaches, in turn, relies on access to timely and accurate data and information. Hence, it is essential for OSCM students to understand the underlying processes and dynamics of information management, for which enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have become a standard. This case study can be a useful resource for introducing the critical interface between OSCM and information systems. The case study aims to facilitate learning on (1) the limitations of a rudimentary and disconnected information system, (2) the benefits and challenges of ERP implementation, and (3) the important steps to ensure a successful implementation of an ERP system. It provides an interesting context of a fast-growing agribusiness producing regulated products in Canada. The case study has been used in OSCM and management information systems (MIS) courses in two Canadian public Universities. Funding: This work was supported by Mitacs [Grants IT28747 and IT32722]. Supplemental Material: The Teaching Note and data files are available at https://www.informs.org/Publications/Subscribe/Access-Restricted-Materials .

Contribution of b-learning to promoting success - the case of Management Accounting in the Information Systems course

Contribution of b-learning to promoting success - the case of Management Accounting in the Information Systems course

The Development of E-Learning Using Multimedia-Based GIS E-Modules

The aim of this research is to develop an interactive, interesting, effective, and fun multimedia-based e-module for the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) course, which can be accessed online so that it can improve student learning outcomes in e-learning via Moodle LMS. The research method employed is the Research and Development (R&D) method. The research method used is the research and development method, which has been modified by Sukmadinata and consists of a preliminary study stage, a model development stage, and a model test stage. The data used in this research is primary data, a population of teaching lecturers who are experts in teaching Geographic Information Systems courses as an e-module trial. The second primary data is the respondent population of ITB STIKOM Bali students who took the Geographic Information Systems course. The sample used in this study was a simple random sample of students registered to take these courses. The data collection technique used in this research used a Likert scale questionnaire instrument for e-module testing. The questionnaire analysis technique uses the feasibility percentage formula. To determine the effectiveness of the e-module, give a test to a sample of students before and after using the e-module by using the N-gain formula in data analysis. The research findings indicate that the e-module is suitable for use as a learning resource, as it received a positive evaluation from the lecturers who used it, with an average score of 48.5 or 88.2% in the "excellent" category based on Likert scale responses in the questionnaire. Additionally, the e-module is effective for student learning, as evidenced by the N-Gain score of 0.74, with a value greater than 0.7, indicating a high level of effectiveness.

REMOTE TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCESSES AT IFNMG - CAMPUS AVANÇADO PORTEIRINHA

With the pandemic caused by Covid-19, it was necessary to suspend face-to-face classes and adopt remote teaching in order to continue the school year. Educational institutions had to change their entire planning and structure the educational environment to enable classes to take place in the new format. In this context, this study aims to identify the factors needed to implement remote teaching and understand the related learning processes in the context of IFNMG - Campus Avançado Porteirinha. To achieve this objective, semi-structured interviews were carried out in focus groups made up of students and teachers from the Information Systems course at IFNMG - Campus Avançado Porteirinha. The results indicate the need to reinforce humanistic practices and consider hybrid classes in order to take advantage of the benefits of remote teaching.

Co-designing an Institutional Repository in Kosovo

An institutional repository (IR) launched at the University for Business and Technology in Pristina, Kosovo in 2019. Students from 2018 and 2019 enrolled in an Information Systems course at the University provided ideas and feedback on the repository development. Their suggestions are captured here by focus group sessions held in mid-2019 in Kosovo and subsequently shared with University Administration and the IR platform company. This case study from the field advocates for continuous feedback from stakeholder groups and an expansion of the underlying data collection methods at other institutions.

Implementation Of Android-Based Learning Media In System Courses Management Information

The Community Service Partner (PkM) is AMIK Depati Parbo Kerinci, where the problem that occurs is that the learning media used is still conventional, such as lecturers providing material and assignments orally and in writing. Apart from that, if the lecturer is unable to attend, the material and assignments are delegated to the teaching team, sometimes making students not understand the content of the material. This PkM activity aims to implement an Android-based e-task application in the Management Information Systems course, which is an online learning system used for Android-based student assignment applications. This system was created using the Android Studio programming language, and uses the Waterfall method with system development tools, namely Unified Modeling Language (UML). Apart from that, the current learning process still uses a one-way method, namely the source of knowledge only comes from lecturers, making students less independent in learning because nowadays there are quite a lot of learning media models, one of which is Android-based learning media. The result of this activity is increased student independence in the teaching and learning process because it uses learning media in the form of an Android-based e-task application so that there is innovation in learning to make students more enthusiastic, creative and active in learning both online and offline.

The Integration of Curriculum Civics Elements in the Teaching of Tourism GIS

Abstract It is possible to use RS, GIS, GPS, and other technologies to collect, manage, analyze, and use tourism geographic information in a system that is based on a tourism geographic information database. These technologies can be used to manage, evaluate, predict, and do other things with tourism geographic information. To integrate ideological and political education elements into the tourism geographic information system course and to establish a new system of ideological and political education and professional courses combined to educate people. Researchers explore the role of teaching practice in enhancing professional performance and ideological and political literacy through controlled experiments and questionnaires. The results indicate that the weight value in the middle of the class, at 0.61, is the most significant component of the teaching link due to the weight setting. The experimental class’s tourism geographic resources test score averaged 86.34, 5.51 points higher than the control class’s, indicating a significant difference (0.04). After the practical teaching, the p-value for the six aspects of civic literacy is less than 0.1. Tourism GIS course: The majority of students recognize the importance of civic literacy. This paper demonstrates the effective combination of tourism GIS and civics teaching so that the course can serve as both a knowledge transfer and value leadership course for students.

Approaches and Models for Teaching Digital Ethics in Information Systems Courses – A Review of the Literature

The value and importance of teaching Digital Ethics within Information Systems and ICT courses is widely recognized and stand-alone or integrated digital ethics units are broadly implemented across degree courses. However, how such courses should be taught and what content they should include is a little explored topic. Using a narrative literature review methodology, this paper reviews the pedagogical theories underpinning digital ethics courses discussed in the literature and outlines approaches that deploy standalone ethics units, integrated ethics teaching, and hybrid teaching approaches and the use of interdisciplinary models. The paper identifies the employment of, and emphasis given to various moral theories in digital ethics education. The paper then discusses how our findings relating to different pedagogical approaches, degree of integration of ethics teaching, the use of interdisciplinary models and use of moral theories—are related to each other. The discussion explores trends in approaches and models for teaching digital ethics highlighted in the review, and makes recommendations for further exploration and inquiry. It concludes that the effective teaching of digital ethics will likely involve a considered combination of approaches, models and techniques, which may also be tailored to the needs of different roles and industries.

Challenges on the Brazilian Information Systems Education: The Professors’ Perspective

<italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Contribution:</i> The main contribution of this study is to gather and report on the challenges faced by IS courses based on the professors’ perspectives. <p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <i>Background:</i> Information systems (ISs) area focuses on the interplay among people, processes/organizations, and technologies. As such, stimulating technical and nontechnical competencies are required from professors and students. For instance, despite the current number of IS bachelor’s degree courses, several difficulties have been faced, e.g., students dropout, novel careers in Computing and Informatics, and market waves. <p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <i>Research Questions:</i> What are the challenges and difficulties of IS Education, considering the professors’ perspective? <p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <i>Methodology:</i> A survey research was executed to collect data related to the IS courses, and a qualitative analysis was performed to answer the research question based on coding procedures. The nature of the research is exploratory and descriptive. <p xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <i>Findings: </i>Results reveal the importance of continuous training for professors, the institutional policies to support students, the creation of hybrid courses to reduce barriers to students, and course class time offered in the mornings and afternoons.

Exploring Information Systems (IS) curricula: a semantic analysis approach

PurposeToday’s in-demand skills may not be needed tomorrow. As companies are adopting a new group of technologies, they are in huge need of information technology (IT) professionals who can fill various IT positions with a mixture of technical and problem-solving skills. This study aims to adopt a sematic analysis approach to explore how the US Information Systems (IS) programs meet the challenges of emerging IT topics.Design/methodology/approachThis study considers the application of a hybrid semantic analysis approach to the analysis of IS higher education programs in the USA. It proposes a semantic analysis framework and a semantic analysis algorithm to analyze and evaluate the context of the IS programs. To be more specific, the study uses digital transformation as a case study to examine the readiness of the IS programs in the USA to meet the challenges of digital transformation. First, this study developed a knowledge pool of 15 principles and 98 keywords from an extensive literature review on digital transformation. Second, this study collects 4,093 IS courses from 315 IS programs in the USA and 493,216 scientific publication records from the Web of Science Core Collection.FindingsUsing the knowledge pool and two collected data sets, the semantic analysis algorithm was implemented to compute a semantic similarity score (DxScore) between an IS course’s context and digital transformation. To present the credibility of the research results of this paper, the state ranking using the similarity scores and the state employment ranking were compared. The research results can be used by IS educators in the future in the process of updating the IS curricula. Regarding IT professionals in the industry, the results can provide insights into the training of their current/future employees.Originality/valueThis study explores the status of the IS programs in the USA by proposing a semantic analysis framework, using digital transformation as a case study to illustrate the application of the proposed semantic analysis framework, and developing a knowledge pool, a corpus and a course information collection.

A Study on the Pre- and Post-Pandemic Media of Instruction and Learning Effectiveness in Information Systems Courses

The objective of this study is to understand the effectiveness of medium of instruction based on student performance in courses offered face-to-face prior to the pandemic and virtual hybrid mode after the onset of the pandemic from a media richness theoretical perspective. This study analyzed data from 1157 students from 43 Information Systems courses over a 6-year pre- and post-pandemic period. This study analyzed student performance data from face to face and virtual hybrid courses across medium of instruction, type of course, course level, and gender. Overall, students performed better in face-to-face classes prior to the pandemic than the virtual hybrid courses. Across gender, and type of course, and course levels, face-to-face medium of instruction was found to be best for student performance. The post-hoc interviews with students and faculty indicated that face-to-face was the choice of instruction medium for technical courses and virtual hybrid mode was preferred for theory intensive conceptual courses, confirming the results from the data analysis.

The Influence of Interest in the Use of Sia E-Commerce on The Tiktok Application Using the Method of Technology Acceptance Model (TAM)

Technological developments are currently increasingly rapid from year to year, making technology the main resource in all aspects of life. In all aspects or jobs, humans require the availability of technology to complete each job efficiently. Moreover, currently online transactions use the internet, one of which is using the TikTok application, where in this application someone can carry out online transactions such as promotions, selling, purchasing goods and services. The aim of this research is to find out how much influence subjective norms, perceived ease, usefulness and complexity have on interest in using e-commerce-based AIS on the TikTok application, then acceptance using the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) method. For the population in this study, researchers took students from the Uin Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang Accounting study program who had taken the Accounting Information Systems course and had used the Tiktok application several times. The sample in this study was 60 respondents and distributed questionnaires using random selection techniques without any engineering. Then the data is processed into an SPSS application and then the results of the processed data show that subjective norms, perceptions of ease, usefulness and complexity have a significant positive effect on the intention to use e-commerce based AIS on the TikTok application using the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) method.

Technology readiness in enterprise resource planning gamification to improve student learning outcomes

&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;In online learning, students often experience problems related to the use of technology. One of them is enterprise resource planning (ERP) technology. Therefore, this study aimed to analyze the technology readiness index (TRI) to measure the extent to which students’ readiness for ERP gamification. This research targets students who use ERP gamification during management information systems and accounting information systems courses. The technique of determining the sample is using a census. So that all the population is used as a sample of 153 students in Indonesia, then analyzed using TRI. Through TRI analysis using SEM PLS, most students studying ERP gamification have a medium readiness index. The findings of this research showed that students are very close to technology, so they have a strong adoption of technology. Most students have an explorer character where they are enthusiastic and have high curiosity about learning ERP gamification. Pioneers who need a little encouragement from external parties to adopt ERP gamification. However, typical skeptics should be given a concrete example of the benefits of using ERP in learning. This research is also a benchmark for developing technology-based learning media according to the characteristics of students who are intended for technology in higher education.&lt;/span&gt;

Going the distance: project management issues in a cycle hire project

Research methodology The case was devised using both primary and secondary data sources. Primary sources of data consisted of in-depth interviews with individuals using the cycle hire project. The researcher also had first-hand experiences of using the cycles. The case study has been tested with undergraduate and graduate students taking management information systems courses. Case overview/synopsis This teaching case study charts the London cycle hire project, mostly from its first inception in July 2010, right through to the planned expansion of electric cycles from Summer 2022. The main aim of the case is to introduce students to project management challenges which are part of the London cycle hire project. While the project was filled with enthusiasm from its early beginnings, various challenges were encountered including issues associated with the project procurement/sourcing process, software and technical problems, as well as other project management issues. Problems became so severe in 2011 that the service provider was hit with a penalty and had to make critical project improvements. Would these accountability measures prompt the service provider to resolve these issues? How would the service provider go about undertaking a fact-finding exercise to verify the existence of the challenges and address them to ensure renewed project success? Complexity academic level The case was written for classes at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The focus of the case is particularly well suited for exploring topics and issues relating to types of information systems, project management and accountability, multiple global supplier procurement, as well as challenges associated with hardware integration and software design. While the case was targeted at MIS students, the case study would also be effective for an introductory level project management course or a general management course. The subject of the case, the bicycle rental program, is likely to appeal to students, and the basic underlying business issues, processes and objectives of the project are easily understood.

DEVELOPMENT E-MODUL GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM BASED ON MOODLE

The development of information technology has affected all fields, namely the field of education without exception. Information technology-based learning (e-learning) is learning where all information is centered on students. If the educator is not present, learning can still be done with e-learning learning which can be accessed using the internet. Current learning at ITB STIKOM Bali, especially in the Information Systems course, is still not effective due to limited learning resources that can increase student enthusiasm for learning. This lack of learning resources for students is a problem during a pandemic and currently facing the digital era due to unpreparedness in dealing with the digital world, this also occurs at the ITB STIKOM Bali campus which still uses learning resources that are less attractive and less interactive which causes students to be less interested to learn. This is supported by data from questionnaire results from 60 students who have completed GIS lectures with previous learning resources, around 72% of students stated that they agreed with the development of learning resources using multimedia e-modules. This course was chosen in the development of teaching materials because teaching Geographic Information Systems requires high-level thinking skills in the process of understanding theory and its applications, therefore higher-order thinking skills play an important role in developing understanding of the material and learning along with it. requires high concentration in digital map digitization. Based on these problems, it is necessary to develop learning resources in the form of Moodle-based multimedia-based e-modules that can be accessed by students online. The method of making an application using the method. The research method consists of literature study, MDLC (Multimedia Development Life Cycle) stages and evaluation. Testing the e-module by giving questionnaires to students taking Geographic Information Systems courses. The software used in making e-modules is Adobe Captivate and other supporting software in photo, audio, and video editing. Testing the effectiveness of the e-module by giving pre-test and post-test to 20 students randomly with an average N-Gain learning result of 0.78 in the high category so the e-module is very effectively used as a learning resource.