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| | Recommended Citation: Davey, B and A Tatnall. Rapid Curriculum Development: A RAD approach to MIS Curriculum Development. In The Proceedings of the Information Systems Education Conference 2000, v 17 (Philadelphia): §114.
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Rapid Curriculum Development: A RAD approach to MIS Curriculum Development
Refereed
| | Bill Davey [a1] [a2]
School of Information Technology
RMIT University [u1] [u2]
Melbourne, Australia [c1] [c2]
Arthur Tatnall [a1] [a2]
School of Information Systems
Victoria University of Technology [u1] [u2]
Melbourne City, Melbourne, Australia [c1] [c2]
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Curriculum in Management Information Systems (MIS) is subject to constant pressure due to changes in business, the computer industry and technology. Clements (1989) suggests many curriculum statements are the result of conscious or unconscious copying of 'authoritative' existing statements, while Truran (1997) suggests a model somewhere between 'muddling through' and an ecological model. An examination of a major curriculum rewrite in MIS curriculum in an Australian university has shown that applying an ecological model for the forces shaping curriculum can be effective in rationalizing those forces. The idea of Rapid Application Development (RAD) can be effective and efficient if applied to curriculum development and implemented in consideration of an 'ecological' view of competing forces.
Keywords: Information Systems curriculum, rapid application development, RAD, computer industry
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