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Gender Differences and Intra-Gender Differences amongst Management Information Systems Students
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Beyer, Sylvia – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2008
Few women major in Management Information Systems (MIS). The purpose of this paper is to examine the reasons for women's underrepresentation in MIS. In addition to examining gender differences, an important and novel goal of this study is to examine intra-gender differences in undergraduate students, i.e., differences among female MIS majors and…
Descriptors: Nonmajors, Majors (Students), Undergraduate Students, Role Models
Using a Studio-Based Pedagogy to Engage Students in the Design of Mobile-Based Media
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Mathews, James M. – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2010
The article presents a brief overview of the Neighbourhood Game Design Project, a studio-based curriculum intervention aimed at engaging students in the design of place-based mobile games and interactive stories using geo-locative technologies (for example, GPS enabled cell phones). It describes the three curricular components that defined the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Teaching Methods, Design, Curriculum Implementation
Augmented by Reality: The Pedagogical Praxis of Urban Planning as a Pathway to Ecological Thinking
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Beckett, Kelly L.; Shaffer, David Williamson – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2005
In this article, we present a study focused on developing students' understanding of the ecology through participation in a technology-supported urban planning simulation--specifically, 11 high school students in Madison, Wisconsin acted as urban planners to redesign a local shopping street using a Geographic Information System (GIS) model. This…
Descriptors: Urban Planning, Ecology, High School Students, Information Systems