A Graduate Course on E-commerce Information Systems Engineering

Interest in developing and deploying e-commerce systems has grown greatly over the past few years, leading to a major shortage of qualified developers able to deliver such applications. This paper describes the development of a graduate course in e-commerce education that has been implemented as part of an Honours degree programme and a first year Masters offering for a traditional Information Systems programme. The aim of this course is to give graduate students a broad grounding and holistic set of skills to enable them to begin successful e-commerce systems development. This paper provides a background and context for this course, an overview and discussion of the course content, delivery methods and practical focus, and discusses experience in running and evolving the course over the past two years. We hope that our experiences and approaches will be useful for others who are planning similar courses focusing on e-commerce systems engineering.