Many modern businesses have implemented information technology in a seamless inter-functional manner based on integrated databases. However, few business schools have followed suit by integrating information technology seamlessly into core curricula. Proprietary enterprise resource planning software packages show promise but have not been adopted in a widespread manner by academic departments f...

Over the past three decades companies of all sizes have been implementing Enterprise Systems (ES). The inherent appeal of ES has not gone unnoticed in the business curriculum either. Several business schools have made systematic changes across their curricula to ensure that they graduate students with an integrated understanding of cross-functional business processes and ES. An ES education can...

The rapid transformation of the modern economies reveals the significance of knowledge, innovation and technology for economic growth. In Europe, the Lisbon Strategy set the very ambitious goal to “become the more competitive knowledge economy in the world by 2010” Besides public policies, the development of the knowledge economy calls for an educational reform with respect to the programs and ...

Teachers have always been engaged in the business of learning. The increasingly rapid changes in knowledge underpinning the nature, structure and practices of society, however, now means that they are having to spend increasing amounts of time on their own learning: finding out about changing policies, procedures and practices related to curriculum, teaching and learning that are central to the...

For some 30 years, beginning in the 1950s, Joseph Schwab wrote extensively about the field of curriculum. His vision was broad: curriculum was not to be conceived narrowly as an agenda for instruction, but as an inquiry into what should be taught and how, always with reference to his five "commonplaces": subject matter; learners; teachers; milieus; and the process of curriculum-making itself. T...

Executive Summary Modern software practices call for the active involvement of business people in the software process. Therefore, programming has become an indispensable part of the IS component of the core curriculum at business schools. This work presents a model-based approach to teaching introduction to programming to general business students. The underpinnings of the new approach are mod...

The experience of preparing for the "Business Continuity and Information Security Maintenance" (BC&ISM) Masters’ program implementation and realization at the "Information Security of Banking Systems" Department of the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (NRNU MEPhI, Moscow, Russia) is presented. Justification of the educational direction choice for BC&ISM professionals is given. The mod...

Veterinary Professional Life (VPL) is a whole-of-course stream of interventions recently introduced to the Murdoch University veterinary curriculum, intended to raise the profile of, and student outcomes in, professional skills and attributes important to success in veterinary practice. These include not only veterinary-specific professional attributes (e.g. ethics, business, diagnostic skills)...

High quality data and information are essential for decision-making; yet there is little focus on the inclusion of information quality in the current business curriculum. Quality issues are addressed in the introductory IS course but may not be seen again. This paper reviews current texts for inclusion of quality and notes little change in the model curriculums inclusion of quality. Suggestions...