Advancing ISD education research with bioecological systems theory

Niamh O. Riordan*, Simon Warren

*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 languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 27th International Conference on Information Systems Development : Designing Digitalization, ISD 2018
EditorsBo Andersson, Bjorn Johansson, Chris Barry, Michael Lang, Henry Linger, Christoph Schneider
PublisherAssociation for Information Systems
Publication date2018
ISBN (Electronic)9789177538769
Publication statusPublished - 2018
Event27th International Conference on Information Systems Development: Designing Digitalization, ISD 2018 - Lund, Sweden
Duration: 22 Aug 201824 Aug 2018

Conference

Conference27th International Conference on Information Systems Development: Designing Digitalization, ISD 2018
Country/TerritorySweden
CityLund
Period22/08/201824/08/2018
SeriesProceedings of the 27th International Conference on Information Systems Development: Designing Digitalization, ISD 2018

Keywords

  • Bioecological theory
  • ISD education
  • Systematic literature review

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