The Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS) 2013, Jeju Island, Korea, June 18-22 2013, www.pacis2013.org
Description
"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself." -John Dewey
IS education and learning are of central importance to the overall development of IS as a field. As a young field, IS education and learning method has been growing with technologies. Various education and learning methods have been evolved since as early as 1970's. Recently, the rapid evolution of information technologies including social networking, cloud computing, outsourcing, crowd sourcing and others, innovative teaching and learning strategies are being designed and implemented by universities in Asia and Asia pacific region. These new technologies will bring new teaching methods to IS field and provide new learning experience for IS students.
IS education and learning are of central importance to the overall development of IS as a field. As a young field, IS education and learning method has been growing with technologies. Various education and learning methods have been evolved since as early as 1970's. Recently, the rapid evolution of information technologies including social networking, cloud computing, outsourcing, crowd sourcing and others, innovative teaching and learning strategies are being designed and implemented by universities in Asia and Asia pacific region. These new technologies will bring new teaching methods to IS field and provide new learning experience for IS students.
The track in IS education and learning will discuss and explore various IS education and learning methods to enhance students' learning experience. The focus of this track is on new and innovative approaches to curriculum, course design, pedagogy, practice, and student learning experiences.
We welcome high quality papers on the topics of, but not limited to, the following areas:
· Curriculum innovations, design and model curricula
o Active learning classrooms
o Curriculum models and industry requirements
· Enhancing students' learning experiences through new technologies
o Experience-oriented teaching
o Technology enhanced learning experience
· Pedagogical approaches and evaluation
o flipped classrooms
o rubric marking
o team based learning
o team assessment methodologies
o student-peer reviews
o learning analytics
o formative assessment & feedback
o recommender systems
o tablet technologies for teaching and learning
· Program assessment and accreditation issues
o Evaluations of commercial and institutional applications
o Assurance of learning
· Work integrated learning
o Cooperative work terms
· Educational technologies and Web 2.0 in IS education
o Social networking
o virtual communities
o Performance change due to new teaching technologies
· Online game / simulation-based learning (G/SL)
o Assessment & evaluation of G/SL
· Mobile apps-based learning
o Learning objects
o Interactive pod/web casts
o Smart phones as classroom response systems
· Ethical and social issues
o Privacy, security and accountability
o Plagiarism
· Distance education
o Models for life-long learning
· E-Learning and asynchronous media
o Taxonomies of discourse and assessment
· Blended-learning and case-based teaching
· Return on Investment (ROI) for innovations in Teaching & Learning
We have received many requests to extend the submission deadline for papers for PACIS 2013. We therefore decide to extend the deadline to submit papers by two weeks. We look forward to receive your paper by no later than February 16, 2013. Please make sure that you submit your paper(s) by this new deadline
The PACIS 2013 Organizing Committee cordially invites paper submission. The PACIS 2013 will be held on 18-22 June 2013 in Jeju Island, Korea (www.pacis2013.org). The conference location, Jeju Island, known as the "Island of the Gods," is selected as one of "New 7 Wonders of Nature (http://www.new7wonders.com/)." PACIS 2013 participants will have the opportunity not only to build and maintain connections with IS scholars in Asian region, but also to experience the excellent natural beauty of Jeju Island.
All submissions will be in English and will be double blind reviewed. The conference accepts completed research papers or research-in-progress papers. All submissions should be submitted through EasyChair system (www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pacis2013)
High quality and relevant papers from PACIS 2013 will be fast-tracked to the Special Issue of several journals, including Information and Management, Journal of Global Information Management, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, Information Systems Frontiers, and Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems.
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: February 1, 2013; February 16, 2013
DC Nomination Deadline: March 15, 2013;
Paper Decision: April 1, 2013;
DC Decision: April 15, 2013;
Submission Deadline of Accepted Papers: May 1, 2013
The conference is supported by the Association for Information Systems and hosted by the Korea Society of Management Information Systems (KMIS), which is the largest IS professional institute in Korea.
For more information, please visit the conference website (www.pacis2013.org) or contact program chairs:
Prof. Jae-Nam Lee, Korea University Business School, isjnlee@korea.ac.kr
Prof. Ji-Ye Mao, Renmin University of China, jiyemao@yahoo.com
Prof. James Thong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, jthong@ust.hk
We look forward to seeing you in Jeju Island in Korea in June 2013!
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