[AISWorld] AMCIS 2019 - IS in Education, IS Curriculum, Education and Teaching Cases Track: Call for Mini-track Proposals

[Dr. Asli Y Akbulut]

AMCIS 2019 - IS in Education, IS Curriculum, Education and Teaching Cases Track:
Call for Mini-track Proposals

The IS in Education, IS Curriculum, Education and Teaching Cases Track (sponsored by AIS SIGED) invites mini-track proposals for the 25th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) to be held on August 15-17, 2019 in Cancun, Mexico.

Information systems (IS) educators face a number of challenges in the current environment, including dealing with declining enrolments, preparing students for the changes in the profession and updating curriculum to integrate new ideas and technologies. These challenges make sharing IS education-related knowledge and practices especially critical. This track provides an opportunity for IS educators and researchers to exchange ideas, techniques, and applications through a combination of workshops, panels and paper presentations. In constantly changing times full of technological disruption, much of our focus is on innovation, disruptive technologies, and quality advances in IS and MIS instruction and curriculum. Different submission topics are welcome, ranging from papers aimed at improving the teaching of specific courses to “big picture” papers intended to address broad topics. Submissions using information systems technology to advance education in other disciplines are also welcome.

Suggested topics include but are not limited to the following:


  *   Information Technology in Education
  *   Virtual learning environments
  *   Mobile education
  *   Pedagogical and Curricular Innovations in IS education
  *   Gamification
  *   Assessment of IS Courses and Curricula
  *   The importance of IS education in functional areas
  *   Building and integrating disruptive technologies into the curriculum
  *   Social issues related to IS education
  *   Ethical issues in the IS curriculum
  *   Women and minorities in IS programs
  *   Improving enrolments in IS programs
  *   Teaching cases
Minitrack chairs will be responsible for:
a) promoting their minitrack to generate manuscript submissions to AMCIS 2019;
b) soliciting and assigning reviewers for manuscripts submitted to the minitrack; and
c) making recommendations to track chairs about each manuscript submitted to the minitrack.


To submit a minitrack proposal, please visit: https://new.precisionconference.com/ais<https://mail.exchange.gvsu.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=2UfFCd9WRMRIQ9nYxwflNGoSwChVS0GEJu52GKEaW9WbpDjbxifWCA..&URL=https%3a%2f%2fnew.precisionconference.com%2fais> and submit the following information:
a) minitrack chairs (names, emails, affiliation);
b) minitrack title;
c) short description of minitrack for the AMCIS 2019 website (up to 150 words);
d) call for papers for your minitrack.

Important Dates:
September 20, 2018: PCS opens for Minitrack submissions
October 19, 2018: Minitrack submissions are due
October 30, 2018: Minitrack decisions are complete
November 5, 2018: Minitrack revisions are due
January 7, 2019: Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2019 begin
March 1, 2019: AMCIS manuscript submissions closes for authors at 10:00am PST
March 7, 2019: All papers have assigned reviewers
April 15, 2019: Track Chairs recommendations are due
April 24, 2019: Camera-ready papers are due
May 1, 2019: Track session plans are due

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. We look forward to receiving your proposals.

Best regards,

Dr. Asli Akbulut, Grand Valley State University, akbuluta at gvsu.edu
Dr. Rhonda Syler, University of Arkansas, rsyler at walton.uark.edu
Dr. Craig Van Slyke, Louisiana Tech University, vanslyke at latech.edu