Advancing ISD Education Research with Bioecological Systems Theory

Simon Warren; Niamh O'Riordan

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-22993-1_1

Advancing ISD Education Research with Bioecological Systems Theory

Simon Warren, Niamh O'Riordan^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The Information Systems (IS) community designs and delivers IS curricula in higher education and faces pedagogical challenges in teaching some complex and technical material. Many of us are involved in the design, implementation, evaluation, adoption, and use of IS to support education and training in academia and in industry. Yet IS research on education is often based on technologically deterministic assumptions about the impact of technology on education outcomes and involves narrowly focused studies on the use and impact of technology in education. In this paper, we introduce IS to Bioecological Theory (BET), whose insights have had a transformative effect in the field of developmental psychology but not well known in IS. We use BET to map existing literature on IS and Higher Education and also outline how this theory can be used in IS to inform the design of technological artifacts to support students’ learning processes.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Advances in Information Systems Development : Designing Digitalization
Editors	Bo Andersson, Björn Johansson, Chris Barry, Michael Lang, Henry Linger, Christoph Schneider
Publisher	Springer
Publication date	2019
Pages	1-17
Chapter	1
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-22993-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22993-1_1
Publication status	Published - 2019

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Advancing ISD Education Research with Bioecological Systems Theory. / Warren, Simon; O'Riordan, Niamh.

Advances in Information Systems Development: Designing Digitalization. ed. / Bo Andersson; Björn Johansson; Chris Barry; Michael Lang; Henry Linger; Christoph Schneider. Springer, 2019. p. 1-17.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

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