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Information Systems Curriculum in an Australian University: Past Developments and Future Directions

Arthur Tatnall
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Stephen Burgess
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In this paper we describe the development of Information Systems (IS) curricula in the Business Faculty of an Australian university over the last 40 years, but then look at how what has happened is likely to affect future developments. The paper looks at how curriculum content was added over the years when it covered what was considered, at the time, to be important new material. In many cases in later years this material became mainstream and so there was no need to include it in IS courses. An example of this is eCommerce which was an extremely important new area in the late 1990s that was developed into new IS subjects and new undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses. By the mid-2000s, however, everyone was using eCommerce and it was included in many other subject areas, making it no longer necessary to be included in IS courses and it disappeared. Finally we question what might happen to IS courses into the future.
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hal-01762912 , version 1 (10-04-2018)

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Arthur Tatnall, Stephen Burgess. Information Systems Curriculum in an Australian University: Past Developments and Future Directions. 11th IFIP World Conference on Computers in Education (WCCE), Jul 2017, Dublin, Ireland. pp.463-472, ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-74310-3_47⟩. ⟨hal-01762912⟩
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