Editing J/ER is more fun than I imagined. I have the privilege of interacting with some of the most interesting people and reading their ideas on information systems pedagogy before anyone else has that opportunity. This collection of articles raises many questions about emerging new technologies in a business organization and the impact of these technologies on the Information Systems' curriculum.
This edition highlights the de Villiers and Abraham's article, "A Model for Teaching the Development of Electronic Commerce Applications," named as "Best Paper" at the International Academy for Information Management 1999 conference. Additionally, J/ER is publishing its first invited paper "Electronic Business Curriculum - Evolution and Revolution @ the Speed of Innovation" by Siau and Davis. Wilson and Connolly tackle the development of the often neglected, but extremely important, user interface. Jacobson and Armstrong follow their initial survey published in the Journal of Education for MIS (1998) with another survey discovering emerging trends in "What Employers Want" from our information system graduates. The results demonstrate the changing information systems environment and the impact of the Internet and the World Wide Web on the business organization. As this technology is changing the business environment, it is also appropriate that three of the articles address the design of either individual courses or an entire curriculum using the Internet, Intranets, or the World Wide Web. Two articles (de Villiers/Abraharns and SiaulDavis) are dedicated to electronic commerce/electronic business, while the Lighfoot article describes an Intranet approach in curriculum design. Hopefully, you will acquire some suggestions and ideas to incorporate into your courses or curriculum.
Many thanks to all the reviewers offering very valuable suggestions for improvements to submitted manuscripts. It is interesting to watch manuscripts evolve.
Mary J. GrangerReturn to the Table of Contents