[AISWorld] AMCIS 2024 Call for Minitrack Proposals - IS EDUCATION TRACK

[Dr. Asli Y Akbulut]

AMCIS 2024 SIGED IS EDUCATION TRACK
Call for Minitrack Proposals

We invite the submission of Minitrack proposals for the “IS in Education, IS Curriculum, Education and Teaching Cases” Track for the 30th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2024), which will be held on August 15-17, 2024, in Salt Lake City, Utah. AMCIS 2024 will bring together academics and industry professionals from around the world to exchange knowledge related to the AMCIS 2024 theme, Elevating Life through Digital Social Entrepreneurship.

Track Description:
Information systems (IS) Education plays an important role in enabling a more equitable and socially conscious digital future. However, IS educators face several challenges in the current environment, including dealing with declining enrollments, reaching out to marginalized populations, preparing students for the changes in the profession, and updating curriculum to integrate new and emerging ideas and technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, augmented and virtual reality, blockchain, and internet of things among others. These challenges make sharing IS education-related knowledge and practices especially critical. Therefore, it is important that leading conferences, such as AMCIS, include a strong IS Education track. As the official AIS special interest group on education, SIGED is uniquely positioned to organize an IS Education track.
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. 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. In constantly changing times full of technological disruption, much of our focus is on digital innovation and emerging technologies as well as quality advances in IS instruction and curriculum. Consistent with the conference theme, we particularly invite submissions that focus on IS education in marginalized communities and the role of IS education in promoting digital equity and social entrepreneurship. Submissions using information systems technology to advance education in other disciplines are also welcome.

Minitrack Submissions:
Please use the website https://new.precisionconference.com/ to submit a Minitrack proposal via PCS.  You will need to include the following information in the PCS submission system:

 1.  Minitrack chairs (names, emails, affiliation)
 2.  Minitrack title
 3.  A short description of the Minitrack for the AMCIS 2024 website (up to 150 words), and
 4. A Call for Papers for your Minitrack.

Minitrack Chair Responsibilities:
If a proposed Minitrack is accepted, the Minitrack chairs will be responsible for:

 1.  Promoting their Minitrack to generate manuscript submissions to AMCIS 2024,
 2.  Soliciting and assigning reviewers for manuscripts submitted to the Minitrack, and
 3.  Making recommendations to track chairs about each manuscript submitted to the Minitrack.



Important dates:
 *   October 16, 2023 – Minitrack submissions are due
 *   October 30, 2023 – Minitrack decisions should be completed and disseminated
 *   January 5, 2024 – Manuscript submissions for AMCIS 2024 begin

(Please see https://amcis2024.aisconferences.org/submissions/call-for-papers/ for additional details – will be updated soon):

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Conference Chairs:
Asli Y. Akbulut, akbuluta at gvsu.edu<mailto:akbuluta at gvsu.edu>
Geoffrey Dick, gfdick at aol.com<mailto:gfdick at aol.com>
John Muraski, muraskij at uwosh.edu<mailto:muraskij at uwosh.edu>