REVISING THE CURRICULUM: POSITIONINGINFORMATION SYSTEMS SPECIALISTSFOR A WEB-BASED ENVIRONMENT

摘要

This paper presents the issues confronting a large Australian university in revising its curriculum in order torneffectively respond to the changing demands of the technical environment and an increasing need to producerngraduates who are team players. The paper first defines the outcomes of an IS education at this university andrnthen moves on to defining an IS curriculum for 2005 (the target year of the first graduates in the revisedrnprogram). A brief section on educational approaches then follows, which examines our values and beliefs ofrneducation and content inclusion. The paper then examines a range of units that are designed to position thernstudent to become an Information Systems Specialist. The paper closes by reviewing the pressures onrnuniversities to keep current content and processes and summarizing the mapping of the final IS curriculum tornthe objectives in ISCC’99.