Pleasing Some of the People Most of teh Time: A Pilot Study of a Citrix Implementation

An Information Technology department in a large urban state college is challenged to meet the needs of a very diverse population of students, faculty, administrators, and staff. The computer user ranges from the barely computer literate to some faculty members who have far more technical expertise than many of the Information Technology staff. Levels of computer literacy range from novices to experts. The users are geographically dispersed, ranging from main campus lab users to satellite campus users, to online students who rarely are on any of the campuses. This pilot revolves around a problem solution to meet the needs of more advanced distant users without overwhelming the average user, and without allocating the major portion of IT’s budget for relatively few users. It required a scalable solution and a varying number of users

Do Students Get Enough Information Systems Education in the Business Core?

Information Systems/Technology is a key component in today’s business infrastructures with a myriad of ever-increasing and innovative applications fuelling the drive for competitive advantage. Therefore information systems education should be a critical element in business schools programs today to appropriately prepare students to be competitive. As our university was seeking AACSB accreditation we wanted to investigate what other programs were doing for the information systems area in the business core. Therefore data was acquired from 61 peer institutions, 89% of which are AACSB-accredited. Data about the components of the business core were collected from the university websites and analysed to determine the amount of the business core curriculum devoted to information systems. Analysis indicates that 85% of the peer institutions had one information systems course and only three percent had two information systems courses

An Exploration Of The Impact Of Online Delivery In Prerequisite Courses On CIS Majors Course Sequence

On-line courses have become an important component of the delivery of courses in all areas of education. The validity of online delivery is challenged if Web students perform poorly in subsequent major courses. This paper investigates the level of success, failure, potential, and limitation of on-line delivery in the CIS area at MSCD. The result of this research will provide a framework for developing a methodology for this kind of study, allowing academic institutions to evaluate the success and utility of online courses

Factors That Impact Student Performance in a Course Sequence

On-line courses have become an important component of the delivery of courses in all areas of education. The validity of online delivery is challenged if Web students perform poorly in subsequent major courses. This paper investigates the effect of mode of delivery and other factors on the level of success, failure, potential, and limitations of web delivery in course sequences. This study was conducted on a two-course sequence in the Computer Information Systems Department at Metropolitan State College of Denver. The result of this research identifies important factors impacting student success in this two course sequence

Revised interpretation of recent InSAR signals observed at Llaima volcano (Chile)

We analyzed C band and L band interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) data acquired from 2003 to 2011 to search for volcanic deformations at Llaima volcano, Southern Andes (38.69 degrees S, 71.73 degrees W). There, specific environmental conditions (steep slopes, snow- or ice-capped summit, dense vegetation cover, and strong tropospheric artifacts) and limited amount of radar data available make it challenging to accurately measure ground surface displacement with InSAR. To overcome these difficulties, we first performed a careful analysis of the water vapor variations using Medium-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer near-infrared water vapor products and then we inverted wrapped interferograms for both topographic correlated phase delays and a simple model source strength. In the light of our results, we conclude that there is no detectable ground displacement related to a deep magmatic source for the 2003-2011 period and that most of the fringes observed in the interferograms were produced by tropospheric delays

Revised interpretation of recent InSAR signals observed at Llaima volcano (Chile)

We analyzed C band and L band interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) data acquired from 2003 to 2011 to search for volcanic deformations at Llaima volcano, Southern Andes (38.69 degrees S, 71.73 degrees W). There, specific environmental conditions (steep slopes, snow- or ice-capped summit, dense vegetation cover, and strong tropospheric artifacts) and limited amount of radar data available make it challenging to accurately measure ground surface displacement with InSAR. To overcome these difficulties, we first performed a careful analysis of the water vapor variations using Medium-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer near-infrared water vapor products and then we inverted wrapped interferograms for both topographic correlated phase delays and a simple model source strength. In the light of our results, we conclude that there is no detectable ground displacement related to a deep magmatic source for the 2003-2011 period and that most of the fringes observed in the interferograms were produced by tropospheric delays