[AISWorld] AMCIS 2016 minitrack on online Education: Issues and Opportunities

[Wendy Wang]

Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)
San Diego, August 11-13, 2016
http://amcis2016.aisnet.org/

Mini©\track title: Online Education: Issues and Opportunities
Track: IS in Education, IS Curriculum, Education and Teaching Cases (SIGED)

Description:

The landscape of higher education continues to evolve as an ever-growing number of institutions offer courses via fully online or blended programs. Enrollments in online programs of all types continue to grow with as many as 37% percent of all U.S college students taking at least one online course. 
The proportion of academic leaders who consider online learning a critical long term strategy increased from 48.8% in 2002 to 70.8% in 2014 and yet only 28% say their faculty members accept the "value and legitimacy of online education." [1]  These figures illustrate the potential of online education to broaden students¡¯ choices for collegiate-level learning as well as and the many obstacles to its efficient and effective implementation.

We invite papers that explore the opportunities and tackle the challenges of online education. Empirical, theoretical, or position papers are welcome. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to, the following:

¡¤         Online learning models and pedagogy
¡¤         Technological advancements that support online education
¡¤         Student, faculty and societal perceptions of online education
¡¤         Evaluation and assessment of student achievement in online contexts
¡¤         Best practices
¡¤         Issues and challenges, e.g., retention, plagiarism, performance evaluation, management, curriculum design accreditation, scalability, service and
          learning material customization.

Important dates:

¡¤         January 4, 2016: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2016 begin
¡¤         March 2, 2016: AMCIS manuscript submissions closes for authors at 10:00am PST (includes Completed Research, Emergent Research Forum (ERF),
          Professional Development Symposia (PDS), and Panel submissions)
¡¤         April 26, 2016: Deadline for Technology Research, Education, and Opinion (TREO) Talks submissions and ERF Proceedings
¡¤         May 1, 2016: Authors are notified of TREO Talks submission decision
¡¤         July 1, 2016: PPT slides due for TREO Talks

Mini©\track Chairs:

Wendy Wang
wendy_phoenix at hotmail.com
Trident University International

Leslie Jordan Albert
leslie.albert at sjsu.edu
San Jose State University

[1]
Babson Survey Research Group. (2014). Grade Level: Tracking Online Education in the United States. The 2014 Survey of Online Learning.
http://onlinelearningconsortium.org/read/survey-reports-2014/