Developing Measurable Cross-Departmental Learning Objectives for Requirements Elicitation in an Information Systems Curriculum

Autor/inn/en	Ezell, Jeremy D.; Lending, Diane; Dillon, Thomas W.; May, Jeffrey; Hurney, Carol A.; Fulcher, Keston H.
Titel	Developing Measurable Cross-Departmental Learning Objectives for Requirements Elicitation in an Information Systems Curriculum
Quelle	In: Journal of Information Systems Education, 30 (2019) 1, S.27-15 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1055-3096
Schlagwörter	Information Systems; Curriculum Development; Curriculum Design; Systems Analysis; Behavioral Objectives; Learning Activities; Scaffolding (Teaching Technique); Classification; Visualization + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Lehrplangestaltung; System analysis; Systemanalyse; Lernaktivität; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Visualisation; Visualisierung
Abstract	The ability to elicit information systems requirements is a necessary learning objective for students in a contemporary information systems curriculum, and is a skill vital to their careers. Common challenges in teaching this skill include both the lack of structure and guidance in information systems textbooks as well as the view that a student's education consists of a disparate set of unrelated courses. These challenges are exacerbated by faculty who focus only on their taught courses and by textbooks that often promote an isolated, passing glance at both the importance of and the idea behind requirements elicitation. In this paper, we describe a multi-year, faculty-led effort to create and refine learning activities that are aligned to requirements elicitation learning objectives both within and scaffolded across courses in a modern information systems curriculum. To achieve success in developing this marketable skill within information systems students, learning activities were integrated across the entire information systems major in a process we call Bloomification, where learning objectives, aligned learning activities, and courses are related and connected across the curriculum. This cross-departmental process is presented and lessons learned by the faculty are discussed. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Journal of Information Systems Education. e-mail: editor@jise.org; Web site: http://www.jise.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01