-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] WITS 2008 Call for Submission - Technology Instruction in Business Curriculum Competition Datum: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:43:02 -0400 Von: Sanjukta D. Smith sdsmith4@buffalo.edu Antwort an: Sanjukta D. Smith sdsmith4@buffalo.edu An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network isworld@lyris.isworld.org
WITS 2008 Call for Submission - Technology Instruction in Business Curriculum Competition:
Instructors teaching Information Technology (IT) in a business curriculum face significant challenges in organizing and developing instructional materials that effectively integrate technology concepts with business issues and problems. Often, instructional approaches tend to align themselves at extreme ends of the technology-business spectrum. At one extreme, the technological skills are given the main focus with limited emphasis on understanding the solution from the business contexts and requirements. At the other end, pedagogical materials are developed primarily with a business focus with little attention to understanding the key IT enablers and their potential to impact business solutions. Both approaches – lack of adequate and appropriate business contexts or the treatment of technology as a black box, lead to less than ideal learning outcomes for the business students.
The objective of the technology instruction competition is to bring together well-developed ideas, which can assist the MIS community at large, in their quest to improve the business orientation of their IT curricula. We solicit submissions of instructional modules that would demonstrate innovative integrations of technology and business in graduate or undergraduate courses.
Submissions should be made online at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/%5C?conf=wits2008 When submitting to the Technology Instruction in Business Curriculum Competition, please be sure to select the option titled "Technology Instruction in Business Curriculum Competition" under "Category". Details regarding submission are provided at the Website for WITS’08 at http://www.citi.uconn.edu/wits2008/default.htm
The detailed call for submission is provided at http://www.citi.uconn.edu/wits2008/Technology% 20Instruction%20in%20Business%20Curriculum.pdf
IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for abstract submission: August 10, 2008 Deadline for case submission: August 17, 2008 Notification of acceptance: September 26, 2008 Camera ready copy due: October 17, 2008
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Co-chairs: Ram Gopal (ram.gopal@business.uconn.edu) R. Ramesh (rramesh@buffalo.edu) Local arrangements chair: Nicolas Prat (prat@essec.fr) Prototype and Technology Instruction competition chair: Kumar Mehta (kmehta1@gmu.edu)
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