{"id":149,"date":"2017-01-11T09:31:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T14:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mdoyle\/?p=149"},"modified":"2017-01-11T09:34:13","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T14:34:13","slug":"mis2501-enterprise-it-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mdoyle\/mis2501-enterprise-it-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"MIS2501 &#8211; Enterprise IT Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>As part of the 2011 program redesign, what was known as MIS120 was completely redesigned in the spring of 2011 and renamed MIS2501 \u2013 Enterprise IT Architecture.\u00a0 The work done on this course has been recognized by the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning with an Innovation in Teaching award.\u00a0 The class has been transformed from a class which had used traditional lectures, traditional textbooks, and traditional exams to a new format which challenges students to learn independently, think critically, and articulates the value of technologies from the perspective of the capabilities the technology provides as well as the business case for investing in a technology.<br \/>\nIn the fall of 2014 we introduced &#8220;Hands-on Tech Challenges&#8221; to MIS2501.\u00a0 In the past, students learned a great deal about technology by researching and analyzing technology but not through enough hands-on experience with technology.\u00a0 In the fall of 2014 we changed 25% of the course so that it includes the development of hands-on technology skills.\u00a0 Students create virtual machines, install server operating systems, configure disk subsystems, install and configure database servers.\u00a0 The last exam of the semester is a pure hands-on exam.\u00a0 Students must demonstrate that they have developed basic competency with all of the technologies we worked with in the Tech Challenges.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In the fall of 2015 we pushed the idea of \u201cHand-on Tech Challenges even further and we expanded on this idea and updated the curriculum so that 50% of the student\u2019s grade will come from new \u201cTech Challenges\u201d where students are challenged to build out the infrastructure for a fictitious start-up using cloud services provided to us through a grant from Microsoft.\u00a0 Students create domain controllers, file servers, configure users, groups, security and login scripts.\u00a0 Students configure disk subsystems, install and configure database servers, web servers and network monitors.\u00a0 Basically, the provide a complete technology platform for their fictitious start-up.\u00a0 Two of the exams are pure hands-on exams.\u00a0 Students must demonstrate that they have developed basic competency with all of the technologies we worked with in the Tech Challenges.<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mdoyle\/files\/2017\/01\/MIS2501-Course-Introduction.pptx\">MIS2501 Course Introduction<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the 2011 program redesign, what was known as MIS120 was completely redesigned in the spring of 2011 and renamed MIS2501 \u2013 Enterprise IT Architecture.\u00a0 The work done on this course has been recognized by the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning with an Innovation in Teaching award.\u00a0 The class has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6277],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation-in-teaching"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43ZBH-2p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mdoyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mdoyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mdoyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mdoyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mdoyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mdoyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mdoyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mdoyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mdoyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mdoyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}