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Accounting Information System Courses: Developing a Hybrid Syllabus in the Era of Digitization
Technology is becoming a major pillar in many professions. It plays a critical role in
developing and enhancing the quality and accuracy of tasks. Because the formal education system is
the first place where future employees are educated, it is very important to ensure that educational
institutions offer continuously updated technology-related courses that cover a wide range of new
and emerging topics. This research has two objectives. First, it explores the validity of the claim that
AIS education is of low quality in the Middle East, as stated in some studies. This is conducted
through highlighting the status quo for AIS courses in Arab countries within the Middle East by
focusing on a representative case study. This part of the work was conducted through a thorough
exploration of the universities’ websites and by distributing and analyzing a survey for faculty
members in a number of universities. Second, the research performs a deep analysis to develop new,
up-to-date, aligned objectives, contents, resources, and assignments in order to create a new,
comprehensive syllabus in the higher-education sector that will serve stakeholders from universities
to accounting communities. The output of this research identified suitable learning objectives based
on current literature and faculty responses. This was followed by designing new course content and
assessment tools that are aligned with learner- and competency-centered approache