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Distance Sections (and course coordinator): Professor
Bieber
Ft. Monmouth Campus: Friday Afternoons: Professor
Jacoby
Newark Campus: Friday Evenings: Professor
Jacoby
Note for current students:
If you ever have a question regarding CIS677, please check on
WebBoard
and ask it there in the appropriate conference.
Note: Only materials that have been significantly updated from the original will be listed here.
We will be using the following text book:
Zwass, Vladimir, Foundations of Information Systems, 4th Edition, Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 1998, ISBN 0-697-13312-5
It's a bit old, but the consensus is that it is the best graduate IS text around! The 2001/2002 edition is just a reprint of this older edition.
You can purchase the textbook from NJIT's Bookstore, or by following the instructions at Distance Learning's Web site to contact HAVE. You can also purchase the text through on-line text services such as http://www.bn.com, http://www.bookpool.com and http://www.varsitybooks.com. (I am not endorsing any of these.).
All materials on the CD-ROM are also available on-line, but the video quality of the CD far surpasses the video quality on the Web, so the price of the CD-ROM is worth it!
You can purchase the CD-ROM by following the instructions at Distance Learning's Web site to contact HAVE. (We may be able to offer it through the NJIT bookstore, but this is uncertain at the moment.)
We also will have a large set of articles to read. You can download and print these out yourself from on-line, or you can purchase a pre-printed course pack and save yourself a lot of time and ink :-)
Currently the course pack is available at Affordable Copies near the Rutgers Newark Campus for $51.50 (including binding). You should call to reserve a copy and give them time to print it up. Note that it will have a prior semester title page. That is OK. I'll post any updates on the course Web Site.
Affordable Copies Center
49 Halsey Street, Newark. (It's parallel and next to Washington Ave.
and between New St. and Bleeker St.)
Tel: 973-802-1007
Open hours: Mon-Fri 9:00-6:00, Sat 10:00-5:00
In addition we are working on a way for students to get the coursepack shipped to them. We'll post details as soon as we have them arranged.
The course videos are on the class CD-ROM. You can also view them on-line (at lower quality) on-campus over the Internet from the following link. If you are off campus, then you need to use NJIT's Virtual Private Network.
Citation Analysis Services:
This short biography is due the first week of class, so you should work on it immediately.
On-line discussion on the textbook readings begins during the first full week of class. This will take place in the discussion conferences on WebBoard. Discussion on the mentoring articles (i.e., communal article reviews within the Article Critique conferences) begins during the week of 2/21 when we have our first article by Brynjolfsson & Hitt. The Article Critique matrix lists everyone's weekly assignment for these on-line article critiques. Three times during the semester we will ask that you provide evaluation of your on-line discussion group. The due dates are listed on the schedule. You may wish to print the evaluation forms out early and keep notes on a regular basis.
During the third full week of class instead of textbook readings, we'll have a short reading on Alter's WCA analysis. This assignment asks you to analyze one information system using the WCA framework.
Twice during the semester you will have to pick an research-oriented article and submit a written review on it. You'll need to register your two articles by 2/28 and 3/14. Each review is due a few weeks after the registration date. Mentoring teams also have to do a group review of their two mentoring articles three weeks after their assigned mentoring week.
Article Review Resources:
Citation Analysis:
Once a semester, each class member will participate in a team presenting a technology to the class. We'll form the teams during the first week of class. The team members should work out among themselves a work schedule for the semester based on when their technology presentation week takes place.
Once a semester, each class member will participate in a team mentoring a week's worth of class discussions. We'll form the teams during the second week of class. The team members should work out among themselves a work schedule for the semester based on when their mentoring week takes place.
Unfortunately, we must address plagiarism or copying work that other people have written in homework, reports, articles or on the Web. If you are going to use more than a few words from someone or somewhere else you must put it in quotation marks and you must cite it (say where you found it). Generally there is nothing wrong with incorporating other people's ideas to a limited degree, but you must make it clear when you are using and building upon other people's ideas.
You may use material you find on the Web and other places, BUT:
- you must cite that work fully, i.e., provide a reference to ALL materials you use in the text of your report AT THE POSITION IN YOUR REPORT where you use it, even if you have rewritten this information
- do not copy unless it is important to include the original material unaltered (rewriting makes things especially clear to our audience)
- do not copy information directly without putting it in quotation marks
- don't quote long passages and do not include many quotes. Instead use your own words to explain/interpret what you find, and provide a reference to the source(s) of ALL materials you use in the text of your report at the position where you use it.
Plagiarism can result in failing the course and being put on probation. Similarly, other types of copying and cheating can result in failing the course and being put on probation. This unfortunately has happened to several students in the past in CIS677.
See below.
GITC Building 5500
University Heights, Newark Campus (driving
directions/campus
map)
IS Department, NJIT
Newark, NJ 07102-1982
(973) 596-2681
Fax number: (973) 596-5777
E-Mail Address: bieber@homer.njit.edu
(ALWAYS put "CIS677" at the start of the subject line of any email
message)
URL: http://ccsweb.njit.edu/~bieber
Office Hours (GITC 5500):
Please do not email assignments, unless you are outside the United States or Canada. You should "snail mail" assignments to:
Professor Bieber--> If you include a stamped, self-addressed envelope, I will mail back your assignment once it is graded.
Don't waste money: Do not express mail anything! Regular mail is fine. If you'll be late by a day or two, just let me know by email.
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