[AISWorld] Call for participation in new AIS Education initiatives

[Riana Steyn]

Good day Heikki
I hope you are doing good.
I am considering to volunteer for one of these two task forces, I am not
100% which one though, but I do think it is important for my career to
become part of such task forces and initiatives.
I don’t have any prior experience with the micro credentials but I think
this would benefit my institution as well however I am not sure if I will be
able to be part of such a task force if I don’t have experience.
I was wondering, if I can't be part of the task force, if I will be able to
have a "Support for the task force" role that can do additional tasks,
activities etc, I hope this makes sense.

Looking forward to hearing from you
regards


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Subject: [AISWorld] Call for participation in new AIS Education initiatives

Dear IS colleagues:

AIS VP of Education together with the AIS Education Committee would like to
establish two member task forces, each associated with one of the following
two areas:

1)
*Determining ways in which AIS could support its members in matters related
to badges, certificates and other microcredentials.* Many employers are
evaluating, in addition to formal educational degrees, their prospective and
current employees’ demonstrated learning based on various badges,
certificates, and other types of microcredentials. Some institutions of
higher education have embraced the use of microcredentials and are actively
encouraging their students to acquire them or even requiring them as part of
their courses; others are either cautious or outright skeptical. Given the
strong emphasis on microcredentials in the context of information
technology -related skills, it is likely that many AIS members and their
departments/schools are working to understand the best ways in which
microcredentials could fit their educational offerings. Therefore, it is
possible that AIS could serve its members well by providing services related
to the microcredentials, for example, in the form of maintaining information
regarding them, providing a platform for users to evaluate them, developing
a set of recommendations regarding their use, etc. Such a service would need
focused ongoing work by dedicated individuals.

2)
*Curating collections of teaching resources that have been published in
various outlets within or affiliated with the AIS community*, such as CAIS,
other IS education journals, education tracks in conferences, specialized
education conferences, etc. Teaching cases are clearly one collection for
which it would be easy to develop an independent identity; another one could
be Course and Program Innovations. There might also be a separate one for
Pedagogical Innovations. For these collections to be sustainable, they would
need to be maintained by a group of people who accept, for a while, the
responsibility for reviewing new material published in the IS education
outlets and maintaining organized and annotated (and potentially selective)
collections of them. These collections could be available, for example,
through the AIS website, and they would need to be developed in full
collaboration with editors responsible for the outlets publishing the
original content. It appears that the ongoing maintenance of such
collections would need some type of an ongoing editorial structure.

Each of the task forces would be charged with a) evaluating whether or not
the idea of developing services outlined in these brief descriptions is
feasible and b) if the answer to the first question is affirmative, propose
a sustainable volunteer process for developing and maintaining such a
service. AIS is a global organization, and both task forces will be asked to
analyze these questions from a perspective that recognizes the richness of
the backgrounds of AIS members.

If you are interested in serving as chair or a member of one of the task
forces, please send your current CV and a brief cover letter that specifies
the role you are interested in and summarizes relevant elements of your
background to AIS VP of Education Heikki Topi (htopi at bentley.edu). Please
submit your expression(s) of interest by the end of the day on Monday,
December 2, 2019 (respondent's time zone). Our goal is to have these task
forces established by the end of the calendar year so that they can start
work in January.

Thank you in advance for your interest!

With best regards,

Heikki

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Dr. Heikki Topi
Professor and Chair, Computer Information Systems Interim Chair, Information
and Process Management Bentley University VP of Education, Association for
Information Systems
+1-781-891-2799
htopi at bentley.edu
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