Management Information Systems for the Information Age, 3/e
Steven Haag,
University of Denver Maeve Cummings,
Pittsburg State University Donald J. McCubbrey,
University of Denver Alain Pinsonneault,
McGill University Richard Donovan,
McGill University
ISBN: 0070955697 Copyright year: 2006
Feature Summary
Organization – The Haag Advantage The separation of content between the chapters and the Extended Learning Modules is very simple: The chapters address what you want your students to know.
The modules address what you want your students to be able to do.
The Third Canadian edition provides instructors with the ultimate flexibility in tailoring content to the exact needs of their course. Introduced in this edition are partitioning of chapters into three sections: IT in Business, Developing and Using Technology, and Expanding Your Reach. At the end of each section are related group projects and Extended Learning Modules. These sections will make it easier for instructors to navigate through the text and its ancillaries, with more of the same pedagogical feature now clustered together.
All the elements, including more on the student CD, allow instructors to decide the extent to which they want to cover technical topics, application/programming topics, and business/managerial topics. Each is a self-contained unit, and can be easily covered at any point in the course, or not at all.
Balance of Canadian, American, and International Material: Management Information Systems 3/c/e accurately represents the ongoing trend toward international business in the information age - from a Canadian perspective (approximately 35% Canadian, 15% American, and 50% international). Through the updated Global Perspectives and Opening & Closing Case Studies, students will read about MIS in the real world, learning about applications in companies both new and familiar to them.
Integrated Coverage of e-Commerce & Technology throughout e.g. e-marketplaces, viral marketing, personalization, eCRM, filing sharing (peer to peer), cyberservices, interactive television, etc.
Student Learning Outcomes and Summary: At the beginning of each chapter and module, you’ll find a list of Student Learning Outcomes, providing students with a road map of what they should learn and accomplish while reading. A Summary of these outcomes appears with the End-of-chapter elements per chapter/module, providing an invaluable tool for your students as they prepare for exams.
Opening and Closing Case Studies: Each chapter begins with a one-page opening case study, highlighting how an organization has successfully implemented many of that chapter’s concepts. Closing Cases: To help students apply what they have just learned, there are two closing case studies at the end of each chapter. Each case has a set of questions which are great for class discussion.
*New to this edition: 75% new opening cases (Chapters1,2,4,5,6,9) 50% new closing cases (Chapters 1,2,4,5,6,7,8)
Team Work and On Your Own projects: There are now more than 30 Team Work and On Your Own projects spread throughout the text, in both the chapters and modules. Many can be used as break-out exercises, and just as many can be assigned as homework. Team Work projects are designed for small groups of two to four. Many are great for in-class assignments. In the Instructor’s Manual, discussions of and solutions to each of these projects are included.
*New to this edition: 45% new Team Work projects 45% new On Your Own projects
Perspectives: These boxes throughout the text bring real-world Canadian and international context to the subjects at hand. For ease of reading, the previous edition’s Industry Perspectives and Global Perspectives have been brought together as one Perspectives box.
*New to this edition: *40% new perspectives (minimum one new in each chapter)
Electronic Commerce: These projects are designed to impart to students hands-on, technological experiences, many requiring Web exploration. There’s an E-Commerce project at the end of each chapter. To support the projects, there will be hundreds of links on the Online Learning Centre for this text.
Group Projects: New to this edition. After the last module in each section are Group Projects.
These require students to use technology to solve a problem or take advantage of an opportunity. Some of these take an entire weekend to solve, so should be assigned in small batches.
Extended Learning Modules: The Third Canadian Edition of Haag includes 11 Extended Learning Modules on careers in business (*new), computer hardware & software, designing databases (*revised and updated), spreadsheet software (*revised and updated), network basics (*revised and updated) object-oriented technologies, Microsoft Access (*revised and updated), the Web and Internet (*revised and updated), HTML (*revised and updated), crime and forensics, as well as building an e-portfolio. These modules have been heavily reworked from previous editions, and now include self-testing exercises and learning objectives. The Extended Learning Modules are self-contained units, and can be easily covered by instructors at any point in their courses, or not at all.
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