Repackaging the Introductory IS Survey Course: An Information Technology Solution

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Repackaging the Introductory IS Survey Course An
Information Technology Solution

• Sharen Bakke
• Cleveland State University

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Is this familiar?
too many students
Blank stares
Unrealized potential
too much material to cover
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Introducing

• A Unique Curriculum
• Objective
• Enjoyable classroom experience
• Students can regulate the learning process
• Electronic administration and grading
• Effectiveness

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Pedagogical Considerations

• Positive learning experience
• Active learning techniques
• Giving students a choice
• Practice opportunities
• Formative assessment

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1. Enjoyable Classroom Experience

• Environment
• Rapport
• Guided lectures
• In class quizzes to earn tokens
• Single 1 student - 1 question 10 seconds
• Teams 2 teams - 2 students 3 questions within
  certain time period
• Group 1 team - 4 students 10 questions within
  certain time period whole class helps

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Token Awards
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2. Students can regulate the learning process

• Homework
• completed and graded online
• range of due dates
• may be submitted 3 times last one counts
• Quizzes
• Administered in a computer lab - proctored
• Range of due dates
• Open book/ open note/ open application
• Prerequisite practice exercises
• Must be completed successfully before taking quiz

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Prerequisite Practice Exercises
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Selecting from the Gift Catalog
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Extra-Credit Opportunities

• Early-bird specials
• Pop questions that randomly appear while online

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3. Electronic Administration and Grading

• ORION online classroom management application

• Homework and Quizzes
• created
• graded
• recorded
• Game shows
• set up
• administered

• Tokens
• created
• redeemed
• Calendar
• Student information
• Communication
• Grades

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Managing the Tokens
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Effectiveness of the new curriculum

• Sample
• Large introductory IS course
• mid-western public university
• Quiz scores
• 5 semesters before
• 5 semesters after
• Compared difference between quiz 1 and quiz 5
• Student comments

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Empirical Results

• Ha Quiz scores for students after the
  implementation of the new curriculum are higher
  than quiz scores obtained before the new
  curriculum was adopted
• Independent sample t-test quiz score differences
• Before M .3422 SD 14.88
• After M -3.85 SD 13.9
• T(3317) -8.378, p 0.00 significant
• Research hypothesis was confirmed

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Student Comments

• ORION lets me do things when I want to I like
  that
• I like the feedback ORION gives me it helps me
  get my work done
• ORION keeps me focused and requires me to do the
  work
• the pop extra credit is nice - I used the points
  several times to buy gifts from the catalog
• the chatroom is a good way to get help from other
  students

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Conclusions

• The class is fun and entertaining compared to the
  traditional approach
• Students successfully self-regulate the learning
  process
• Class is almost completely administered
  electronically through ORION
• Greatest impact
• completing prerequisite exercises successfully
  before taking quizzes
• tackle more challenging topics