Honglei Li, University of Northumbria, honglei.li@northumbria.ac.uk
Don Sheridan, University of Auckland Business School, d.sheridan@auckland.ac.nz

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself." -John Dewey

IS education and learning are of central importance to the overall development of IS as a field. As a young field, IS education and learning method has been growing with technologies. Various education and learning methods have been evolved since as early as 1970's. Recently, the rapid evolution of information technologies including social networking, cloud computing, outsourcing, crowd sourcing and others, innovative teaching and learning strategies are being designed and implemented by universities in Asia and Asia pacific region. These new technologies will bring new teaching methods to IS field and provide new learning experience for IS students.

The track in IS education and learning will discuss and explore various IS education and learning methods to enhance students' learning experience. The focus of this track is on new and innovative approaches to curriculum, course design, pedagogy, practice, and student learning experiences. We welcome high quality papers on the topics of, but not limited to, the following areas:

• Curriculum innovations, design and model curricula
• Active learning classrooms
• Curriculum models and industry requirements
• Enhancing students' learning experiences through new technologies
• Experience-oriented teaching
• Technology enhanced learning experience
• Pedagogical approaches and evaluation
• flipped classrooms
• rubric marking
• team based learning
• team assessment methodologies
• student-peer reviews
• learning analytics
• formative assessment & feedback
• recommender systems
• tablet technologies for teaching and learning
• Program assessment and accreditation issues
• Evaluations of commercial and institutional applications
• Assurance of learning
• Work integrated learning
• Cooperative work terms
• Educational technologies and Web 2.0 in IS education
• Social networking
• virtual communities
• Performance change due to new teaching technologies
• Online game / simulation-based learning (G/SL)
• Assessment & evaluation of G/SL
• Mobile apps-based learning
• Learning objects
• Interactive pod/web casts
• Smart phones as classroom response systems
• Ethical and social issues
• Privacy, security and accountability
• Plagiarism
• Distance education
• Models for life-long learning
• E-Learning and asynchronous media
• Taxonomies of discourse and assessment
• Blended-learning and case-based teaching
• Return on Investment (ROI) for innovations in Teaching & Learning