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Radwan Ali; Dominic Thomas – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2024
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the integration of emerging technology (ET) integration in the information systems (IS) curriculum. Background: Modernizing the IS curriculum is consistently needed to meet the demands of the workplace. The IS2020 curriculum model recommends adding emerging technology learning into the IS…
Descriptors: Printing, Computer Peripherals, Technology Integration, Technology Uses in Education
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Bobkowski, Piotr S.; Younger, Karna; Watson, John C. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2021
This case study discusses the integration of information literacy instruction and assessment in a required research course for students of journalism and strategic communication at the University of Kansas. The integration consisted of four components: (1) a unifying threshold concept, (2) an open textbook, (3) a sequence of five assignments, and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Journalism, Information Literacy, Case Studies
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Sarah Rutherford – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2020
This design case documents the motivations, decisions, and results of an experimental course that involved students in the curriculum development process through the use of design thinking methodology. Primary points of student input were determining assignment topics, developing learning objectives, and contributing to the design of grading…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Design, College Students
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Leidig, Jonathan P. – Information Systems Education Journal, 2023
Educators are tasked with continually updating course objectives, content, assignments, and assessment to meet model curriculum guidelines. IS2020 proposes program level outcomes for required and elective areas. Two elective areas in IS2020 are Data and Business Analytics and Data and Information Visualization. IS2020 details 14 program level…
Descriptors: Course Objectives, Outcomes of Education, Curriculum Development, Required Courses
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Beasley, Jennifer G.; Briggs, Christine; Pennington, Leighann – Gifted Child Today, 2017
The need for a shared vision concerning exemplary curricula for academically advanced learners must be a priority in the field of education. With the advent of the Common Core State Standards adoption in many states, a new conversation has been ignited over meeting the needs of students with gifts and talents for whom the "standard"…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Advanced Students, Common Core State Standards, Educational Research
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Humpherys, Sean; Babb, Jeffry; Abdullat, Amjad – Information Systems Education Journal, 2015
Through the annual ABET assessment process, Computer Information Systems faculty in the College of Business at a regional institution were able to diagnose problems regarding students not satisfying our program's Student Outcomes. Often, the impediments to student success were not technical in nature and prompted faculty to consider non-technical…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Outcomes of Education, Skill Development, Business Administration Education
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deBraga, Michael; Boyd, Cleo; Abdulnour, Shahad – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2015
A primary goal of university instruction is the students' demonstration of improved, highly developed critical thinking (CT) skills. However, how do faculty encourage CT and its potential concomitant increase in student workload without negatively impacting student perceptions of the course? In this investigation, an advanced biology course is…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Instruction, Learning, Critical Thinking
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Blumner, Jacob; Fritz, Francis; Wice, Sarah – Across the Disciplines, 2007
This article describes a model for student/faculty collaboration in WAC development--students tutoring faculty on drafts of the writing assignments they have designed for their own students. While writing center scholarship is student-centered and invites student participation, Writing Across the Curriculum scholarship and implementation remains…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Teacher Student Relationship, Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Assignments
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Dean, Christopher W. – Across the Disciplines, 2009
"Developing and Assessing an Online Research Writing Course" discusses how the Writing Program at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) created a hybrid, online research writing course, Writing 50, and assessed that course. The assessment, which is at the center of this piece, was dovetailed with assessment literature in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Research Skills
Throne, David W. – 1994
As part of a federal grant to develop an across-the-curriculum ethics program, ethics instruction was integrated into English classes at Colorado's Community College of Aurora (CCA). In the English classes, students were first asked to read case studies from CCA's ethics handbook detailing specific ethical problems. In subsequent classes, students…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Colleges, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Critical Thinking
Armstrong, John D., Ed.; Store, Ron E., Ed. – 1980
Proceedings of a 1980 workshop in Queensland, Australia, on evaluation in distance teaching are presented. Two focal areas were the assessment of students and evaluation of programs and courses. In addition to keynote and workshop papers, a variety of evaluation forms are presented. Among the papers and authors are: "The Setting of Tertiary…
Descriptors: Assignments, Audiovisual Aids, College Instruction, Communication Problems