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Paper (refereed) Information Systems Curriculum

Recommended Citation: Wilkes, F A, D W Johnson, and P Ormond. Is a Curriculum Management System in Your Future? In The Proceedings of the Information Systems Education Conference 2002, v 19 (San Antonio): §243b. ISSN: 1542-7382.

Is a Curriculum Management System in Your Future?

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Floyd A. Wilkes    [a1] [a2]
Business Computer Information Systems Department, School of Business
Utah Valley State College    [u1] [u2]
Orem, Utah, USA    [c1] [c2]

David W. Johnson    [a1] [a2]
Business Computer Information Systems Department, School of Business
Utah Valley State College    [u1] [u2]
Orem, Utah, USA    [c1] [c2]

Pat Ormond    [a1] [a2]
Business Computer Information Systems Department, School of Business
Utah Valley State College    [u1] [u2]
Orem, Utah, USA    [c1] [c2]

K-12 education has changed drastically in the past two decades. Today, state and federally mandated curriculum standards are enforced, and positive outcomes assessment is linked to teacher advancement. Higher education today is faced with challenges that will require a sharper focus on its curriculum development, review, and assessment. A curriculum management system is an automated system that will help support these efforts. Current systems utilized in primary and secondary education, together with ongoing efforts in higher education to define model curricula, help to provide insight into the potential functions of such a system. Specifically, the rich constructs of the IS'97 curriculum model suggest an approach to representing the details of a local curriculum that goes beyond a simple listing of courses and their brief descriptions. Experiences with an automated prototype of the IS'97 model have demonstrated the value that a similar automated system could have for the stakeholders of a local curriculum. To make this happen, however, there are a number of issues peculiar to higher education that must be addressed. The future of higher education may well rest on our ability to address these issues and to put in place the proper procedures and systems that demonstrate that our house is in order.

Keywords: automated curriculum management, higher education, assessment, limited funding

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