Is web-based seminar an effective way of learning as a part of information management and information systems development course?

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Is web-based seminar an effective way of
learning as a part of information management and
information systems development course?

• Pekka Makkonen
• University of Jyväskylä
• FINLAND

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Course

• An undergraduate course for the first-year
  majors Information management and information
  systems development
• Themes
• (1) administrative view to information resources
  management,
• (2) technological view to information resources
  management,
• (3) building information systems, and
• (4) organizational applications

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Why web-based seminar?

• increased amount of information systems education
  as well as students at universities-gt
  impossibility to organize conventional seminars
• Need for more flexibility because of
  heterogeneity of the students
• Adult education

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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 groups separate
  workspace on the web
• Other groups commented on the outcomes
• Control groups to compare the value

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Screenshot
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Our research goals

• how the students knowledge of different themes
  was improved,
• how the students experienced the coursework
  methods (web-based or traditional), and
• whether age, a group size, a gender and a faculty
  affect the effectiveness of the learning of
  different themes.
• How did we evaluate these goals?
• Questionnaires (at the beginning and the end)

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What we got

• The WWW-based coursework and seminar have equal
  effect on learning different themes of the course
  
• The students of IT faculty benefited more from
  the web-based coursework in the learning of
  building information systems
• The Web CT-based coursework suits a little bit
  better for older students and it can enable
  effective group work in the bigger group.

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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.
• Blended learning