出版社：International Association for Computer Information Systems
摘要：Students’ engagement in learning has consistently been linked to their retention rates in the Management Information Systems (MIS) program, their academic success (2), and interest in the MIS major. Increasing student engagement was seen as vital to increasing enrolment in the MIS major, which began a rapid decline in 2001. One of the steps taken to curb this was to make changes to the curriculum, some in its programming constituent. We found that many institutions offer beginning programming courses using legacy character mode editors to develop static applications. Most MIS programming courses and textbooks are oriented towards teaching programming and application development with Windows applications. This paper describes changes made in our programming courses with respect to teaching development of interactive web pages instead of windows applications while using the same Integrated Development Environment (IDE). We discuss the rationale for the change, the challenges we faced, and the results of this transformation.
