[AISWorld] second CfP: AMCIS mini-track on Executive Education

[Heinz Roland Weistroffer]

2nd Call for Papers

AMCIS 2011 Minitrack: Professional and Executive Education

Track: IS Curriculum, Education and Teaching Cases

August 4-7, 2011

Minitrack Co-chairs:

H. Roland Weistroffer

Virginia Commonwealth University

hrweistr at vcu.edu

Jean Gasen

Virginia Commonwealth University

jbgasen at vcu.edu

Changes in information technology (IT) necessitate a renewed  
reflection on graduate programs in Information Systems (IS). As the IT  
workforce is becoming increasingly global and diverse, graduate  
education must respond. To maintain relevance within this changing  
environment and to meet new market demands, graduate programs in  
information systems, geared especially towards working professionals,  
are becoming more evident. New integrated formats for learning, with a  
focus on IT leadership and management, have been emerging in the past  
ten years. However, the IS/IT education research and literature seem  
to not have caught on to this new trend yet.

Many of the graduate programs designed for professionals use a weekend  
format to allow students to participate with minimum disruption to  
their employment. The curriculum and course material are often  
structured differently from traditional programs, to better match the  
interests and needs of these non-traditional students, already deeply  
ingrained into the professional and business world. Programs are  
typically lock step over one to two years, allowing students to form  
strong relationships with their classmates and to complete their  
degrees in a relatively short time. Faculty may include professionals  
and business executives in addition to regular academic university  
teachers. All these differences from traditional university programs  
require a rethinking on pedagogy, content delivery, and program  
administration.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

* Curriculum issues ╨ differences to traditional programs

* Course delivery issues ╨ what works and what doesn't work

* Matching teaching style to the student audience

* Student expectations in executive programs

* Academic versus professional faculty ╨ from whom do executive  
students learn more?

* Student evaluation and grading in executive programs

* Level of material coverage

* Important topic areas to be covered

* Traditional course structure versus integrated coverage of materials

* Focus on leadership in executive programs

* Mentorship programs for professional students

* Scheduling and administrative issues

* Recruiting students for executive programs

Important dates:

February 28, 2011 Deadline for paper submissions

April 4, 2011   Notification of acceptance of papers

April 25, 2010  Final copy due

August 4-7, 2011 Conference

Instructions for authors:

The maximum length for papers is 5000 words. Please go to the AMCIS  
2011 Web site at http://amcis2011.aisnet.org for formatting and  
submission instructions.
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