Have the Transformational Information Technologies Really Transformed the Academia?

The Internet and the World Wide Web are often referred to as transformational information technologies (Jarvenpaa and Ives, 1996). With the advent and rapid growth of these technologies, the business landscape is being redrawn through the shrinking of space and time, and exploding global competition. While a number of studies have been initiated in recent years to research into different facets of electronic commerce (EC), very few studies have been undertaken to examine the impact of these transformational information technologies on the academia who are among the early users

E-Hermes: An Xml Tool for the Classroom

This paper describes the development of an XML-based tool, called e-Hermes, suitable for use in a variety of instructional contexts. e-Hermes simulates the capabilities of a web-based system to handle customer order transactions and to apply both document structure (data format) validations and application (data content) validations. Students in Information Systems (IS) courses can use e-Hermes to support their learning about web-based database and system design principles, to practice using XML or to understand e-commerce transactions. Assignments are provided in this paper, along with an appendix for instructors who need more background in XML. This paper, therefore, presents important educational contributions in the field of information systems