Jan 02

Organizing groups as companies

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Traditionally, courses like this have groups created to do projects (which has weightage of 15 to 30%), but all the intermediate work is done by individual resources.

One idea I have (has some roots into how York University in Canada conducts its MBA program) is to put students into groups of 4-6 people by 2nd or 3rd lecture (total 28 lectures). These will be called ‘companies’ - and rest of the semester, everything they do, even assignments and class participation, will be team driven. They may even be forced to sit together in 1 row each. And ofcourse the project will be company-based.

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Dec 31

Technical Courses taken

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The students have taken following courses - relevant courses are listed. Knowing this may help in defining the outline a bit well. There is some project work in Systems courses but other are theory based.

  1. Programming
    1. Introduction to Programming
    2. Object Oriented Programming (Java/C++/C#)
  2. Systems
    1. System Administration
    2. Systems Analysis & Design
    3. Information Systems Development (Oracle Developer 2000)
  3. Data Communication & Networking
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Dec 30

Official Course Description

Case study, Curriculum, Entrepreneurial, Funding, Guest Lectures, Project Work, Theory 1 Comment »

Description of the course E-Commerce (MIS 403) is:

The course introduces the e-commerce concept, objectives, market drivers, requirements, underpinning techniques and technologies. Topics include: intelligent agents, client/server model, commitment, concurrency, recovery, network service, and application management, quality of service management, service level agreement management, application service providers and security management. Policy and regulatory issues in e-commerce will also be discussed. Finally, various e-commerce applications in the areas of finance, securities, trading, auctions, and travel will be described.

If you visit the IBA course description page, you notice that these students will not have any course on entrepreneurship. They do take a course in E-Business

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