[AISWorld] CFP Teaching Track: Pre-ICIS SIGDSA Business Analytic Congress 2016, Dublin, Ireland

[Uzma Raja]

In keeping with the Symposium theme of “Innovations in Data Analytics”, we
seek pedagogical research contributions, teaching materials, and
pedagogical practices/cases that address acquisition, application, and
continued development of the knowledge and skills required in the usage of
business analytics in the classroom, with emphasis on business
intelligence, social media analytics, big data analytics, high performance
analytics, data science, visualization, and other emerging analytic
technologies. Contributions could be comprehensive completed or ongoing
studies, teaching cases, tutorial exercises and similar artifacts related
to *pedagogy/teaching* and *learning*, addressing topics including but not
limited to:

   - ‪Business Analytics (BA) curriculum development with assessment methods
   - ‪Bodies of Knowledge (BOK) for Business Intelligence, Analytics, Data
   Science
   - ‪Developing interdisciplinary focus that cuts across traditional
   functional areas
   - ‪Differentiating business analytics curricula for Undergraduate, MBA,
   Master of Science and Executive Education, and tailoring curricula to
   generalists and specialists.
   - ‪Integration of IT and analytics skills
   - ‪New BA programs
   - ‪New BA courses
   - Pedagogical innovation in Business Analytics
   - ‪Teaching approaches and their effectiveness
   - ‪Course delivery innovation (online, hybrid, student interaction, etc.)
   - Industry collaborations to create simulated industry projects
   - ‪Gaming and/or simulation and their effectiveness
   - ‪Organizational case studies (with teaching note) that provide rich
   stories of individual organizations’ management and technological
   initiatives and address a variety of issues in management sponsorship,
   strategic priorities, adoption and implementation of analytics, technical
   challenges, collaboration, communication, and actionable results in
   business analytics:
      - ‪Different stakeholders involved in decision making process and
      their role in implementation success
      - ‪Role of strategic planning in adoption and implementation success
      - ‪Demonstrate effectiveness of a technological solution approach
      versus other alternatives
      - Organizational challenges and barriers
      - ‪Metrics to measure effectiveness of these technologies to enhance
      business value
      - ‪Success factors and reasons for failure
      - ‪Ethical and/or global issues
   - Tutorial exercises (with teaching note) that provide a business
   scenario, data sets, and step-by-step introduction to the latest business
   analytics tools, covering topics including but not limited to:
      - ‪ Integration of data management and analytics
      - ‪ Integration of analytics and visualization
      - ‪ Integration of diverse analytics tools and platforms
      - ‪Business Analytics software in the classroom
      - ‪ Use of platform and/or software to enhance pedagogy for data
      mining, text mining, and sentiment analysis using social media data, and
      big data
      - ‪Tools and technologies
      - ‪Cloud vs. on-site software solutions
      - ‪Open source vs. proprietary solutions
      -

*Submit papers to:*

   - ‪Uzma Raja (uraja at cba.ua.edu)
   - ‪Anna Sidorova (anna.sidorova at unt.edu)
   - Mary Daly (mary.daly at ucc.ie)


*Deadline: September 5, 2016*

Visit the  conference site for more details:
https://preicis2016sigdsa.wordpress.com/submissions/teaching-track/