Contributed by Organizations or Campuses; Articles, Papers, and Reports; and IT Effectiveness
The Economic Imperative for Teaching with Technology
| Title: | The Economic Imperative for Teaching with Technology (ID: CSD4559) | | Author(s): | Susanne Lohmann (UCLA) | | Source: | Issues in Science and Technology | | Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2006) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | Innovative approaches to increasing classroom productivity are the best option for controlling the escalating costs of research universities. In 1997, management guru Peter Drucker predicted that in 30 years the big university campuses would be relics, driven out of existence by their inexorable increases in tuition and by competition from alternative education systems made possible by information technology (IT). Drucker overstates the case, but the nation's major research universities, both the publics and the private nonprofits, will have to make fundamental changes in the way they provide education if they are to thrive, rather than merely survive, in the coming decades. | | View this resource: | |
Measuring organizational IS effectiveness: an overview and update of senior management perspectives
| Title: | Measuring organizational IS effectiveness: an overview and update of senior management perspectives (ID: CSD2623) | | Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2002) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | This paper reports the views of 80 senior IT managers about IT evaluation approaches, and the benefits that IT provides for their organizations. Their views were obtained through a survey mailed to medium to large organizations in both Europe and the US. The survey sought answers to three questions: How does the senior IT manager's organization assess the value of its (1) overall IT investment portfolio? (2) individual IT projects and applications? (3) IT function? Questions for the survey were based on a thorough review of prior research into IT evaluation. The paper provides a summary of that prior work and compares current findings to prior research. Consistent with prior research, the paper concludes that many firms do not conduct rigorous evaluations of all their IT investments, and offers a tentative explanation of why it might be rational to skip formal evaluations in some circumstances. It also posits five push factors to explain occasions when more lasting improvements in IT evaluation practice have occurred. | | View this resource: | |
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