Interest in developing and deploying E-commerce systems has grown greatly over the past few years, leading to a major shortage of qualified developers. This paper describes the development of a graduate course in E-commerce education that has been implemented as part of an Honours degree programme and a first year Masters offering for a traditional Information Systems programme. The aim of this course is to give graduate students a broad grounding and holistic set of skills to enable them to begin successful E-commerce systems development. This paper provides a background and context for this course, an overview and discussion of the course content, delivery methods and practical focus, and discusses experience in funning andevolving the course over the past two years. We hope that ourexperiences and approaches will be useful for otherswho areplanning similar coursesfocusing on E-commercesystemsengineering.
John Grundy holds the BSc, MSc and PhD degrees, all in computer science from the University of Auckland. He has taught a wide range information systems and software engineering courses, specializing in group-based project courses with industry. Dr. Grundy's research interests include software tools, software architecture, process technology and visual languages. He consults widely on industry R&D projects.
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