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Benefit of WWW-based seminar as a part of information management and information systems development course. Pekka Makkonen University of Jyväskylä FINLAND. Course. An undergraduate course for the first-year majors: Information management and information systems development Themes
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Benefit of WWW-based seminar as a part of information management and information systems development course Pekka Makkonen University of Jyväskylä FINLAND
Course • An undergraduate course for the first-year majors: Information management and information systems development • Themes • (1) managing information resources, • (2) building information systems, and • (3) organizational applications
Why web-based seminar? • increased amount of information systems education as well as students at universities-> impossibility to organize conventional seminars • Need for more flexibility because of heterogeneity of the students • Adult education • technical infrastructure has been improved (for example high-speed broadband connections to the student village)
How? • Web CT and its presentations feature • Working in small groups (3 to 5 students) with feasibility study which dealt with one typical information system (stock control, sales order processing, etc.) • Presentations were put in each group’s separate workspace on the web • Other groups commented on the outcomes • Control groups to compare the value (not in this paper)
Was web-based seminar successful? • First evaluations • Questionnaires (at the beginning and the end) • The process of the coursework and seminar • Course work generally • Motivation • Authoring • Reading outcomes of other groups and participating in seminar • How the students of the experimental group experienced the Web CT tool • Comparing main phases of web-based coursework • Evaluating effect of age, gender, size of group and faculty
What we got • Web-based seminar worked well • coursework generally • authoring • seminar (reading others’ work and commenting on them) • Web-based seminar is suitable for older students • The students who studied IT and IS as minor benefited more from web-based seminar
Personal thoughts • Prefer HTML format • Avoid use of subfolders • Think about differences of browsers • As a teacher do not use all the features of a learning environment: think about your pedagogical design first. For example, the Web CT includes a lot of features: only some of them may be suitable for one course. This means that as a teacher you should choose the features used from the perspective of your own pedagogical view. • Blended learning
Research continues • Comparing experimental group to control group • We ran another course on the same topic without a web-based seminar • These results will be published