August 15 – 17, 2013

Track: IS in Education, IS Curriculum, Education and Teaching Cases (SIGED)
Mini-Track: Roles of Information Technologies in Online Classroom Modalities


Mini-Track Chairs:

Jongbok Byun, Ashford University, jongbok.byun@ashford.edu
Jorge Cardenas, Ashford University, jorge.cardenas@ashford.edu


Mini-Track Description:

Online courses are popular in the United States. Many prestigious schools including MIT, Harvard, Stanford, and UC Berkeley are providing their courses to students and the public in online formats. In particular, the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) platform such as Coursera and edX are used to deliver online courses. Although these courses often do not provide any college level credits or degrees, scores of people have already joined the courses and finished them. Compared to these big schools, many small to medium sized colleges including community colleges are struggling to incorporate online modalities into their curricula. Often, they do not have enough resources to develop and deliver the online courses. In addition, delivered online courses are not as promising as expected, not just because the faculty and budget are lacking, but because they have different modalities from traditional classroom based courses.

One clear difference between online and traditional courses is the level of interpersonal connection. Students and teachers are quite disconnected in online classrooms. Recorded lectures, discussion boards, and linked study resources are common features of many online course modalities, but they culminate in asynchronous course management systems. Students and teachers must communicate at different times and from different locations. Information technology enabled students to participate in online courses but the current information technology simply does not live up to traditional classroom based educational models. This mini-track provides an opportunity for information scientists,  academic researchers, instructors, system developers, and content providers submit papers sharing their academic ideas and practices.


Suggested Topics

In this mini-track, we are looking for academic discussion and case studies including but not limited to the following topics:

●       Online Education Platforms
●       Online Presence and Course Outcomes
●       Online Learning Theories
●       Historical Views of Online Education
●       Faculty Development in Online Education
●       Emerging Technologies and Trends
●       Quality Management
●       Course Development
●       Content Delivery
●       Roles of Faculties and Administrators
●       Social Media and Social Networking in Online Education


Submission Procedure

●       Submit your paper using the Bepress system at http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2013/

Important Dates

●        January 4, 2013: Paper submissions officially begin
●        February 22, 2013: Paper Submission Deadline 11:59 PM CST
●        April 22, 2013: Program Chairs Notify Authors of Paper Acceptance
●        May 9, 2013: Camera-ready Copy of Accepted Papers Due
●        Updated information at http://amcis2013.aisnet.org