Developing an Andragogy Model for IS/IT Education
William R. King, Yogesh Malhotra
The existing pedagogy model that is used in much of formal education is argued to be inferior to a "mix" of pedagogy and andragogy on the basis of extant learning theories. A set of propositions, which may be thought of either as prescriptions or as the bases for hypotheses to be empirically tested, are derived from six principles that reflect the evolution oflearning theories. A "portfolio" of educational methodologies is presented to illustrate how the andragogy model can complement the pedagogy model in IS/IT education.
William R. King is university professor at the Katz Graduate School of Business of the University of Pittsburgh. He has served as founding president of the Association for Information Systems, president of TIMS (now INFORMS), editor-in-chief of the MIS Quarterly, and chair of the International Conference on Information Systems. Professor King has more than 300 publications in the fields of information systems, management science, and strategic planning. Among these are 13 books that have been translated into many languages and won several prestigious awards.
Yogesh Malhotra is an assistant professor in the School of Management at Syracuse University. He earned his Ph.D. in information systems and knowledge management with honors from the University of Pittsburgh on a doctoral fellowship awarded by the Katz Graduate School of Business. Dr. Malhotra also holds a bachelor of engineering (cum laude), an MBA(summa cumlaude), and doctoral studies in educational psychology from the University of Pittsburgh School of Education. He is a Certified Computing Professional, a Chartered Engineer, and a Life Member of the Institution of Engineers and an award-winning member of the Academy of Management. He is profiled in the Marquis' Who's Who in the World.
Dr. Malhotra has authored two books on digital business model innovation, Knowledge Management and Business Model Innovation and Knowledge Management and Virtual Organizations, and more than thirty related refereed research papers, conference proceedings, and invited articles. He has servedin editorandreviewercapacities formorethan a dozen research journals and proceedings related to information systems, electronic business, and knowledge management and served as contributing editor for Ziff Davis Standard for' Internet Commerce. Dr. Malhotra has taught in the executive programs at Carnegie Mellon University's Graduate School ofIndustrial Administration and at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He has lectured at the University of Pittsburgh's Katz School of Business, the State University System of Florida, and many other leading institutions in the U.S. and Europe. Dr. Malhotra has served as a counselor and advisor on information technology, electronic business, and knowledge management to Arthur Andersen, British Telecom, Hewlett Packard, Intel, and the governments of Mexico, The Netherlands, and the U.S. His professional experience (18 years) includes technology leadership roles in management consulting and project management with some of the world's largest corporations in software development, banking and finance, and automotive sectors and their global subsidiaries in the U.S., Japan, Hong Kong, and India.
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