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Christine Ladwig; Dana Schwieger – Information Systems Education Journal, 2024
Hollywood screenwriters worry about Artificial Intelligence (AI) replacements taking over their jobs. Famous museums litigate to protect their art from AI infringement. A major retailer scraps a machine-learning based recruitment program that was biased against women. These are just a few examples of how AI is affecting the world of work,…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Curriculum Development, Information Systems, Information Science Education
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Christel Sirocchi; Annika Pofantis Ostergren; Alessandro Bogliolo – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2024
Digital competence (DC) is a broad set of skills, attitudes, and knowledge for confident, critical, and responsible use of digital technologies in every aspect of life. DC proves essential in the contemporary digital landscape, yet its diffusion is hindered by biases, misunderstandings, and limited awareness. Teaching Informatics in the…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Information Science Education, Coding, Digital Literacy
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Case, Thomas; Dick, Geoffrey; Granger, Mary J.; Akbulut, Asli Y. – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2019
The Information Systems discipline has long suffered an identity crisis. It has also been prone to program sustainability issues as a technology focus has waxed and waned over the last 50 years. This paper suggests a new approach to teaching Information Systems, utilizing the notion of "fundamental and powerful concepts." Using digital…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Information Science Education, Teaching Methods, Information Technology
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Botafogo, Frederico – Accounting Education, 2019
We review and interpret two propositions published by Ellerman [2014. On double-entry bookkeeping: the mathematical treatment. "Accounting Education," 23(5), 483-501] in this journal. The paper builds on this contribution with the view of reconciling the two, apparently dichotomous, perspectives of accounting measurement: the stock and…
Descriptors: Accounting, Syntax, Income, Measurement
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Kedron, Peter; Quick, Matthew; Hilgendorf, Zach; Sachdeva, Mehak – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2022
Educational materials focused on spatial data analysis often feature mathematical descriptions of methods and step-by-step instructions of software tools, but infrequently discuss the set of decisions involved in specifying a statistical model. Failing to consider model specification may lead to specification searching, or the process of repeating…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Data Analysis, Meta Analysis, Decision Making
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Vincent, Antony T.; Bourbonnais, Yves; Brouard, Jean-Simon; Deveau, Hélène; Droit, Arnaud; Gagné, Stéphane M.; Guertin, Michel; Lemieux, Claude; Rathier, Louis; Charette, Steve J.; Lagüe, Patrick – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2018
A recent scientific discipline, bioinformatics, defined as using informatics for the study of biological problems, is now a requirement for the study of biological sciences. Bioinformatics has become such a powerful and popular discipline that several academic institutions have created programs in this field, allowing students to become…
Descriptors: Biology, Information Science, Web Based Instruction, Introductory Courses
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Ivanov, O. A.; Ivanova, V. V.; Saltan, A. A. – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2017
In this paper, we discuss examples of assignments for a course in discrete mathematics for undergraduate students majoring in business informatics. We consider several problems with computer-based solutions and discuss general strategies for using computers in teaching mathematics and its applications. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of our…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Undergraduate Students, Computer Uses in Education
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Ribeiro, Fernanda; Pestana, Olívia – Education for Information, 2020
This article starts by a brief overview of the evolution of education in Information Science in Portugal. After, there is a description of the paradigm shift and the significant changes caused by the impact of social, economic, cultural and technological conditions of the information era as well as the emergence of Information Science as an…
Descriptors: Information Science Education, Information Technology, Social Change, Economic Climate
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Glushkov, Sergey – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2017
The article reviews features of teaching Medical Informatics and Statistics. The course is referred to the disciplines of Mathematical and Natural sciences. The course is provided in all the faculties of I. M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University. For students of Preventive Medicine Department the time frame allotted for studying the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Information Science Education, Medical Education, Statistics
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Helkenberg, Davin; Schoenberger, Nicole; Kooy, S. A. Vander; Pemberton, Amanda; Ali, Karim; Bartlett, Sarah; Clair, Jillian; Crombleholme, Sydney; Dee, Alison; DePierro, Kristy; Greenwood, Timothy; Lobzun, Meagan; Petersen, Cassandra; Saunders, Sabrina Redwing; Tarzi, Mary; Ward, Kristyn; Zip, Stacey – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2018
This paper was produced as a collaborative project by a Progressive Librarianship class at an ALA-accredited Masters of Library and Information Science (MLIS) program located in Canada. Recent research in LIS has identified a need for issues of social justice to be discussed more prominently in LIS education. From a uniquely student perspective,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Information Science Education, Library Science
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Reinicke, Bryan; Baker, Elizabeth; Toothman, Callie – Information Systems Education Journal, 2018
Professors teaching cyber security classes often face challenges when developing workshops for their students: How does one quickly and efficiently configure and deploy an operating system for a temporary learning/testing environment? Faculty teaching these classes spend countless hours installing, configuring and deploying multiple system…
Descriptors: Computer Security, Information Security, Computer Simulation, Workshops
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Gauld, Craig; Whatley, Patricia – Education for Information, 2017
The expansion of distance learning and an understanding of the benefits it can offer to both the university and the individual has led to the growth of methodologies, pedagogies and models aimed at diversifying and maximising the student experience and increasing student numbers. This paper will address these issues in relation to the…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Information Science Education
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Valente, José Armando; de Almeida, Maria Elizabeth Bianconcini – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2020
Brazilian initiatives aimed at the insertion of information and communication technologies (ICT) in K-12 education took their first steps in the 1970s, when several countries focused their efforts on the use of ICT in the educational context. Since the early 1980s, a number of public policies have been created that have given rise to various…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Program Descriptions, Information Science Education, Foreign Countries
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Törley, Gábor – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2014
This paper presents the history of algorithm visualization (AV), highlighting teaching-methodology aspects. A combined, two-group pedagogical experiment will be presented as well, which measured the efficiency and the impact on the abstract thinking of AV. According to the results, students, who learned with AV, performed better in the experiment.
Descriptors: Mathematics, Visual Aids, Teaching Methods, Programming
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Smarkusky, Debra L.; Toman, Sharon A. – Information Systems Education Journal, 2016
Interdisciplinary teaching and interpretation of technology for various applications provides a challenging and engaging environment for students to enhance their creativity, critical thinking and problem-solving skills. This paper presents results of a joint effort between faculty in the Department of Information Sciences and Technology and the…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Music Education, Information Science, Teaching Methods
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