Critique Skills As The Core Competency of IS Academics

Metcalfe, Mike; Wilson, J. N.; Joham, Carmen

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“…Experts also differ from novices in their ability to self-regulate their time and efforts, focusing on goal setting, time management, self-evaluation and self-motivation (Cleary & Zimmerman, 2000). Guest speakers can also use their expertise to clarify issues with which the lecturer may not be entirely familiar (Metcalfe, Wilson, & Joham, 2002;Wortman, 1992).…”

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A Framework towards Assessing the Merits of Inviting IT Professionals to the Classroom

Kamoun

Selim²

2007

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Executive SummaryFor the past years, the academic IT profession through various professional society curriculum committees and accreditation bodies has made considerable progress to revise and update IT curricula to meet the changing needs of the profession. In particular, learning techniques, beyond classroom teaching activities, have been recognized as essential ingredients to enhance the learning outcomes of advanced-level IT courses. This study outlines an assessment framework to explore the merits of inviting IT professionals as a pedagogical technique to integrate real world IT experience into the classroom. Though the general merits of inviting guest speakers have been confirmed in many previous (non-IT related) studies, these events are particularly much needed in the IT field. This urgency is justified by many factors such as the complex and constantly changing IT profession and its environment, the rapid pace in the rollout/phase-out of IT technologies and terminologies, and the shallow focus on professional orientation in most IT curricula. Our study confirms some of the merits of inviting guest speakers as reported in the literature. It also adds to existing literature in at least three aspects. First, to our best knowledge, this is the first reported study that reflects upon the usage of guest speakers in IT classrooms. Second, our research is a first initiative that contributes to establishing a formal framework for the planning and the assessment of guest speaker events. Such an assessment framework will be very useful for continuous improvement to ensure that students will not feel cheated that three hours of classtime lecturing and discussions were devoted to a less worthwhile guest speaker talk. Third, compared to previous studies, the experience reported in this article is unique in the sense that it is formally and strategically planned, conducted on a large (university-wide) scale and scheduled during a particular week near the end of each semester. Based on the proposed assessment framework and research methodology, this research makes use of multiple sources of evidence to assess the merits of guest speaker events.The data collected indicate that the event helps remedy the lack of exposure of information technology students to the IT professional environment. The event can also provide students with invaluable real-world and practical IT knowledge. Such knowledge can either relate to a particular topic already covered by the course, or it can bring new practical perspectives which are not covered by the course syllabus. These perspectives, along with the guest speaker recommendations, can be fed-back into the IT courses to enrich their content and/or scope. Such feedback is more important than ever given the rapidly evolving nature of the IT environment. This study Material published as part of this publication, either on-line or in print, is copyrighted by the Informing Science Institute. Permission to make digital or paper copy of part or all of these works for personal or classroom use ...

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A Framework towards Assessing the Merits of Inviting IT Professionals to the Classroom

Kamoun

Selim²

2007

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“…Nalbandian and Nalbandian (2003) attribute four characteristics to the notion of competence: context, rooted in a knowledge base and in analytical skills, interdependence between competence and values, and involving the whole person. Metcalfe, Wilson, and Joham (2002) suggest three: value, rarity, and appropriability. Biemans, Nieuwenhuis, Poell, Mulder, and Wesselink (2004) derived six common characteristics of competencies from their review of the literature: context-bound, visible, changeable, connected to activities and tasks, required learning and development process, and interrelated.…”

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Competencies needed by Korean HRD master's graduates: A comparison between the ASTD WLP competency model and the Korean study

Lee

2009

Human Resource Dev Quarterly

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The Live Teaching Case: A New IS Method and its Application

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Ann-frances.cameron@hec.ca, marie-claude.trudel@hec.ca, ryad.titah@hec.ca, pierre-majorique.leger@hec.ca Executive SummaryWhen teaching Information Systems (IS), one of the crucial objectives is to make students understand the practical aspects of the integration of IS in organizations. Over the last decades, several pedagogical approaches were introduced to more tightly bridge theory and practice, e.g., hands on exercises, simulations, real world projects, guest speakers, and case studies. In this paper, we introduce a pedagogical approach novel to IS which brings practice into the classroom, i.e., the live teaching case method. The live teaching case method is a hybrid between a guest speaker event and a teaching case. The live teaching case method is different from a written case as it is the animator who experienced the case who is verbally presenting the case. The live teaching case is different from a guest speaker event as it is more focused around specific decision points, such as a written case would be. We believe that the live teaching case approach alleviates several of the traditional case method shortcomings while maximizing the benefits associated with the presence of a guest speaker in class. This paper outlines the various steps involved in the live teaching case including initiating contact, planning the decision points, selecting student readings and developing pre-course materials, guiding the initial presentation and discussion, guiding the presentation and discussion of the managerial decision points, and class wrap-up. This approach is explained and then illustrated using three different IS courses, namely, an IS project management course, a systems analysis and design course, and a capstone course on enterprise system implementation.

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Critique Skills As The Core Competency of IS Academics

Cited by 3 publications

References 10 publications

A Framework towards Assessing the Merits of Inviting IT Professionals to the Classroom

A Framework towards Assessing the Merits of Inviting IT Professionals to the Classroom

Competencies needed by Korean HRD master's graduates: A comparison between the ASTD WLP competency model and the Korean study

The Live Teaching Case: A New IS Method and its Application

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