IS 2000 Progress Report on Undergraduate IS Curriculum Development

Undergraduate IS Curricula have been under development since the early 1970\u27s and have resulted in a series of curriculum reports. Initially the DPMA (now AITP) and the ACM organizations produced separate models. Beginning in the early 1990\u27s faculty associated with AITP, ACM and AIS have worked jointly to research and publish reports and curricula for undergraduate programs of Information Systems (Longenecker, et al 1994; Couger et al 1995) culminating in IS’97 (Davis, et al 1997). Survey results of IS faculty regarding the required depth of knowledge for the IS Body of Knowledge, as well as the necessity for achieving specific entry level skills will be presented and discussed. Results of the analysis of Learning Unit composition will be presented and discussed. Revision of the learning units will be identified. Approaches for funding and involvement of IS faculty and Industry professionals will be conducted. Participation will be solicited. Also, a schedule for the update process will be made available

A Methodology to Assist Faculty in Developing Successful Approaches for Achieving Learner Centered Information Systems Curriculum Outcomes: Team Based Methods

All industries face the interrelated challenges of indentifying and training the critical skills needed to be successful in the workplace. Specifically of interest to the information systems field is that any newly trained IS professional has to be equipped to solve increasingly difficult problems with great confidence and competence. In this paper we present the case for IS curriculum implementations (Landry 2008) based on the transformational learner centered methodologies (Saulnier 2008). With this approach, student learners take responsibility for their education and are accountable for the outcomes based on a continuous feedback and self adjustment of goal. We present a methodology for learner centered outcome development by using a template approach developed within a quality process improvement environment. This approach utilizes an existing model curriculum in developing the learner centered attributes. Examples for implementing the approach utilizing team based behaviors are provided