ISCAP Proceedings 2025

Louisville, Kentucky - November 2025

Papers Presented by Focus Area and Teaching Cases


IS & CIS Education/Pedagogy

Papers Chair:
Ernst Bekkering, Northeastern State University

Associate Papers Chairs:
Neelima Bhatnagar, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg
Rajaa Shindi, New Mexico State University


An Exploratory Analysis of Perceptions and Uses of Generative AI Tools for Higher Education (6449)
A Review of Content Guidance, Design Approaches, and Evaluation Methods in K-12 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Curriculum Design (6456)
A Topical Examination of the Systems Analysis & Design Course (6454)
Addressing Complexity in IS/IT Teaching and Research (6341)
An Analysis of Natural Language and Java Program Complexity (6333)
Application of AI in IS Education Through the Lens of Automate-Informate-Transformate (6434)
Are 21st Century Skills Still Relevant in the 21st Century? (6340)
Assessing the Impact of a Technology Ethics Course (6378)
Automating Curriculum Intelligence: Scalable Extraction and Categorization of University Courses Using GenAI (6346)
Beyond the Benchmark: Why NSSE Falls Short for Measuring Engagement in IT Students (6380)
Bridging the AI Skills Gap through AI-Focused Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (6459)
CurriculumGPT: A Second Look at Curricular Tooling with AI (6390)
Developing an Artificial Intelligence Course for a Small Undergraduate Program (6387)
Digital Twin Learning Kits and Strategies for Higher Education (6462)
Factors Influencing Student Participation in Excel MOS Certification (6301)
Fostering Career-Ready Skills and CS2023 Dispositions through Active Engagement of Gen Z and Gen Alpha MIS Students (6329)
From Excel to Python to AI: A Connectivist Approach to Teaching Coding Concepts in an Introductory Information Systems Course (6433)
From Headsets to Language Fluency: Investigating Engagement and Learning with VR in Middle School Spanish (6442)
General Programming Languages for Information Systems (IS) Students (6451)
Generative AI Meets Data Warehousing: Closing the Education Gap (6401)
GUIA: A Case Study in Responsible AI and Experiential Learning for Cultural Heritage (6395)
Human-AI Collaboration in Learning Environments: A Multi-Theoretical Examination of Knowledge Flow and Student Cognition (6309)
Improving Attendance at Academic Conferences (6385)
Improving Scrum Adoption Attitudes in Non-Traditional Industry Settings (6366)
Integrating AI-Driven Negotiation into Experiential Operations and Supply Chain Education (6404)
Introductory Coding Interventions: Frequency of Interventions Being Implemented at Universities (6398)
Linking Motivation and Technology Beliefs to Perceived Learning Outcomes: A Moderated Mediation Model in Business Information Systems Education (6314)
Personality, Extrinsic Task Motivation, and the Use of Generative AI: A Framework for Understanding Human-AI Interaction (6320)
Personalized Learning Through H5P and Scaffolding (6431)
Personalized, Accessible, but Imperfect: Why Students Turn to GenAI for Academic Help (6393)
Predicting Computing Academic Success Self-Efficacy (CASS) for Black Undergraduate Students: An Intersectional Analysis (6386)
Rethinking Coordination: Toward a Flexible, Instructor-Centered Model (6415)
Strategic Alignment of Curriculum and Mission: A Study of Technology Integration in AACSB Business Schools (6439)
Teaching with Generative AI: Ethics and Engagement in Undergraduate Analytics (6367)
The Need for Artificial Intelligence Programs in AACSB Accredited Business Schools: A Comparison Across Universities (6318)
The Rise of Data Analytics: An Inductive Analysis of Disciplinary Migration in Higher Education (6353)
The Role of Reinforcement Motivation in Enhancing Engagement Among Remote Students in Asynchronous Global Campus courses (6453)
Virtual, Augmented, and Extended Reality in Higher Education: Trends, Applications, Impacts (6392)

IS Applied Research

Papers Chair:

Bryan Reinicke
Rochester Institute of Technology

AI-Powered Study Assistant for Exams: QuizAI (6430)
A Comparative Analysis of an LLM and RAG (Retrrieval Augmented Generation) in a Question and Answer System (6337)
A Crowdsourced Approach for Named Entity Resolution (6418)
A Design of Recommender Systems with Hybrid Models (6322)
A Framework for Addressing Research Gaps in AI-Driven Classrooms: Toward Equity, Ethics, and Sustainable Innovation (6408)
A Study of Chatbots Performance with Large Language Models in Scenario of a Higher Education Institution (6435)
A Systematic Review of AI-Driven Interviewing Systems for Technical and Professional Skills (6438)
Agile Skills Requirements in the Workforce (6399)
AI & Machine Learning Deployment: Best Practices, Costs and Priorities (6338)
An AI-based tool for Creating Social Stories for Children: NiteStory.AI (6429)
Benchmarking LLMs for Content Expansion: Measuring Novelty in Iterative Course Outline Generation (6344)
Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning: An Analysis of the Relationship Between Human Critical Thinking and the Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) (6388)
Designing An Artificial Intelligence Adoption Assistance Platform for Small and Medium Enterprises: Identifying Opportunities and Concerns (6316)
Does Dark Humor Work? An Inspection of Social Media-Based Marketing Strategies (6355)
Enhancing Healthcare Data Security Through Incentivized Behavioral Cybersecurity (6372)
Enhancing Programming Productivity for Individuals with ADHD Through Generative Artificial Intelligence: An Inductive Analysis (6377)
Examining Artificial Intelligence Job Descriptions: An Analysis of Current Jobs (6313)
Household Digital Twin for Storm Preparedness and Response (6357)
Immersive Virtual Reality to Support Blood Donation: A Pilot Study on Engagement and Anxiety Reduction (6379)
Partisan Gerrymandering: the Culprit, a Proposed Solution, and Implications in Informatoin Systems Education (6400)
Preserving Requirements-Driven Development in the Age of AI: an Empirical Evaluation of the Impact of Software Specifications in LLM-Assisted Coding (6416)
Survey on Design Mechanisms of Hybrid Chatbots in Academic Websites (6448)
Trust in Large Language Models: An Empirical Validation of the Acceptance-Trust Model (ATM) Framework (6323)
Use of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: A Review (6436)
User Satisfaction with AI-Powered Chatbots: Features driving User Experience (6450)
Using a Large Language Model to Evaluate Content Quality in Nutritional YouTube Shorts (6335)
Using Generative AI in the Cloud Framework to Advance Healthcare Organizational Maturity within the NIST CSF 2.0 Maturity Model (6460)

Cybersecurity Pedagogy and Practice

Papers Chairs:

David Yates, Bentley University
Art Ream III, Bentley University

Alarming Trends in Organizational Cyber Security (6411)
Arizona's CyberSupply: Identifying Gateway-to-Cybersecurity and Cybersecurity Courses and Pathways in Secondary Education (6302)
Beyond Awareness: Building Digital Resilience Through Comprehensive Cybersecurity Foundations for K-5 Students (6383)
Bridging the Cybersecurity Skills Gap by Leveraging Cybersecurity Clinics: Developing the Arizona Cybersecurity Clinic (6391)
Cyber Pass - A Cyber Security Personality Assessment for Organizations (6374)
Design Debt and Data Governance Failure: A Teaching Case on the 23andMe Genetic Breach (6370)
Enhancing Cyber Defense: A Federated Multi-Modal Deep Learning Framework for Privacy-Preserving Zero-Day Attack Detection (6304)
Enhancing Student Learning in Information Security Courses: Integrating Generative AI, Critical Thinking, and Case-Based Pedagogy (6334)
Excessive Equating: An Exploration of Knowledge Unit (KU) Curricular Load for CAE-CD Program Design and Evaluation (6348)
Feasibility of AI-Driven Non-Playable Characters (NPCs) as Conversational Guides in Cybersecurity Training Simulations (6345)
Perceived Usefulness of Password Complexity: A Methodology Approach (6343)
Semantic Technologies for Cybersecurity Education Competencies: JSON-LD Implementation of Distributed Learning Analytics (6443)
Social Networks and TTX Evaluation and Performance (6396)
Towards Understanding Collaborative Learning in an Undergraduate Cybersecurity Course: A pilot study using the AAC&U Teamwork VALUE Rubric, with implications for teaching and learning in Cyberethics contexts (6359)
What is Cybersecurity (or Cyber Security)? Answer [Still] Loading... (6356)

Data Analytics

Papers Chairs:

Kevin Mentzer, Nichols College

An Emotional Analysis for Psychology, Affective Science, and Mental Health Using Agentic Multi-Agent AI Systems (6457)
Data-Driven Peer Group Selection for Salary Comparison in Higher Education: An Applied Analytics Approach to Building Trust (6397)
Developing Florida Digital Divide Index: A Comprehensive Analysis of Internet Accessibility and Socio-economic Characteristics (6354)
Improving AI-Driven Stroke Prediction Models: A Comparative Evaluation of SMOTE and Undersampling Methods (6330)
One Health: AI in Healthcare Summarization (6389)
Teaching Data Analytical Skills to Business Undergraduates through GenAI-Augmented and Traditional Programming Tools (6350)

Cases (Teaching and Exercises)

Papers Chairs:

Ira Goldstein, Siena College
Michelle Louch, University of Pittsburgh - Greensburg

A Teaching Case of Engaging GenAI for Co-creation: Image Generation and Poster Design (6342)
Boosting Student Engagement and Analytics Skills Through Competition (6375)
Building Advanced Multi-Agent Chatbots: A Low-Code/No-Code Approach (6461)
Certify, Don't Test: Integrating AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification in Undergraduate IT Courses as the Final Exam (6336)
Code Together, Apart: Introducing Students to Asynchronous Team Development Workflows Using GitHub (6321)
Computers and the Homeless: Moving from Code to Compassion through an International Computer Science Capstone (6420)
Enhancing Student Understanding of Systems Analysis & Design: A Client-Based Project Approach (6347)
Experiential Learning to Increase Student Motivation and Engagement in an Introductory Computing Course (6327)
From Classroom to Crisis: Implementing a Collegiate Incident Response Competition for Undergraduate Students to gauge impact of Cybersecurity Education (6402)
Introducing Data Analytics and AI Collaboration to Novice Students: An Assignment Using Real Business Data (6445)
Our Interconnected, Resilient, Modern World ... Is Still Painfully and Remarkably Vulnerable (6303)
Paddles for Paws: Development of a Pickleball Tournament Event Management Database for a Cool Cause (6319)
Teaching Business Students Critical Thinking Using a Data Visualization and ChatGPT (6406)
Teaching Case Using Tableau to Visualize Data for a Six Sigma Improvement Project (6384)
Teaching Data Literacy Through Operational Analytics: A Car Wash Case Study (6339)
Teaching Database Knowledge Through AI Prompt Engineering (6407)
The American Association of Zoo Keepers: A Case for Systems Analysis and Database Design (6328)
Understanding and Developing a Generative-A.I. Policy in the Classroom (6452)