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As universities respond to the recent demand for E-commerce, faculty members are now being assigned the task of developing, implementing, and teaching E-commerce courses. Since E-commerce is intertwined in almost all areas of business, most business courses now include some discussion on pertinent E-commerce topics. However, many information systems departments are discovering the need for a course that exclusively deals with the technical issues of E-commerce or web development. This study presents several critical success factors in developing and offering a course focused exclusively on web development. Critical success factors presented include book and software adoption, where the course fits in the curriculum, the skill sets of students entering the web development course, and faculty development.
Keywords: Web Development, Teaching Web-Development, Course Development, and Student Skill Sets
1. INTRODUCTION
As universities respond to market pressure of adding E-- commerce to their curriculum, faculty members must be prepared to develop, implement, and teach E-commerce. E-commerce tends to encompass many areas in the information systems (IS) curriculum. Therefore some schools simply include E-commerce topics in existing courses. However, others may choose to implement a new course focusing exclusively on a specific area of E-- commerce. Web development is one area of E-commerce that seems to be popular in the information systems field. When developing a new web development course there are several factors that need to be considered. The factors include where the course fits in the curriculum, book and software adoption, the skill sets of students, and faculty development. The purpose of this study is to present critical success factors and some recent experiences in developing and implementing a new web development course into the curriculum.
2. THE IS CURRICULUM AND &COMMERCE
The first critical success factor for a web development course is the development and design of the content to be covered. One method of implementing a web development course would be to examine other schools that have successfully implemented web development into their curriculum. Another possibility is to look at guidelines or accreditation standards for guidance. In looking to a standard such as the IS 97 there is no mention of E-commerce (Davis et. al. 1997). The dynamic nature of this field leaves little question that the guidelines and standards...
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