Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology - Table of Contents Volume 14, 2017

Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology Software Quality Management Supported by Software Agent Technology

Software technology and computing resources have evolved and developed considerably over the past years and may be considered as the backbone of many business ventures today. However, the software project management environment has also changed and is continuously evolving. Currently software projects are developed and deployed in distributed, pervasive and collaborative environments. This mean...

Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology Critical Thinking and Reasoning for Information Systems Students

It is important for higher education institutions to produce Information Systems graduates who can think and solve problems effectively. This paper is a rich description of the first cycle in an action research project defined to investigate the effectiveness of using a specially developed unit in the first year of an Information Systems course in order to facilitate the enhancement of students...

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Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology Communication Management and Control in Distance Learning Scenarios

An approach to improve communication processes in e-learning is introduced. Based on a separation of a content-related and a communicational part of e-learning environments a system to support both students and tutors in their communication endeavors is presented. The communication platform consists of administration, configuration, moderation, and certainly communication tools which are descri...

Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology Computer Use and Immersion in a Non-IT Course

This paper presents an enhanced strategy to incorporate computer applications in a non-IT course, called Computer Immersion Strategy (CIS). Previous attempts to fully incorporate current technology in accounting courses highlighted the failure of those strategies to enable or motivate students to master analytical problem-solving skills. In response to this crucial shortcoming, CIS was develope...