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Digital badges recognize the professional achievements of MIS students

FOX MIS Grand MasterThe Community platform introduces digital badges to recognize the professional achievements of FOX MIS students. To be awarded a badge, students will add a custom developed widget to their eportfolio. Once the widget is added, the student will automatically receive the appropriate badge based on their professional development points.  The badge levels are:

  • Grand Master (2000 plus): The pinnacle of professional readiness. Grand Master’s have extensive experience in engaging with industry, have demonstrated extensive leadership and communication skills, and are likely to take on leadership roles in the future.
  • Master (1500 plus): The master of professional achievement. Master’s have gone above and beyond all the basic requirements and excelled in every category of professional development, career knowledge, networking and are expected to be stars in their careers.
  • Candidate (1000 plus): The complete well-rounded student. Candidates have excelled in meeting all the department’s requirements for professional development. They are ready for the workplace!
  • Apprentice (700 plus): Apprentices have started investing in their professional development early and are well on track to meet the department’s requirements for professional achievement.

The badges will go into full use at the start of the Fall 2013 term. To see examples, visit: http://community.mis.temple.edu/daviddupell/ or http://community.mis.temple.edu/joshwise/

Read the article by Peter Key of the Philadelphia Business Journal on the MIS Community platform!

Gamification of College Student Professional Development

Two major trends are shaping higher education today. One is that attracting high quality students has become even more competitive. Second, the job market for college graduates is gradually improving, but still challenging. Together, these trends make it all the more important that universities are not just providing a well-rounded education for undergraduates, but are also specifically preparing them to successfully enter the workforce.

Here in the Management Information Systems department of the Temple University Fox School of Business we’ve developed an innovative system for motivating students to engage in their Professional Development.

Here’s how our department chair, Munir Mandviwalla, describes it:

We implemented a point system for our program about 1.5 years ago so that students need to achieve 1000 professional development points before they can graduate. More recently, we introduced a leaderboard that showcases the students with the most amount of points. Today, I am pleased to announce ‘professional achievement’ badges for our students.

Professional Achievement Badges

The badge levels are:

  • Grand Master (2000 plus): The pinnacle of professional readiness. Grand Master’s have extensive experience in engaging with industry, have demonstrated extensive leadership and communication skills, and are likely to take on leadership roles in the future.
  • Master (1500 plus): The master of professional achievement. Master’s have gone above and beyond all the basic requirements and excelled in every category of professional development, career knowledge, networking and are expected to be stars in their careers.
  • Candidate (1000 plus): The complete well rounded student. Candidates have excelled in meeting all the department’s requirements for professional development. They are ready for the workplace!
  • Apprentice (700 plus): Apprentices have started investing in their professional development early and are well on track to meet the department’s requirements for professional achievement.

Coming up with appropriate labels and a way to describe it all was incredibly challenging! We will do a soft roll out over the summer and then more formally in the fall. I am sure we will learn from this experience and after a year we will take another look at the levels, labels, and point categories and revise and improve.

As Munir says, it’s not easy to define meaningful levels and appealing badges. And, yet, it’s one of those many little details that goes into designing and implementing effective gamification.

What do you think? Would a system of points, levels, and badges have helped you work harder on your own professional development in college? If you hire recent college graduates, would a badge like this be of value to you in assessing student abilities?

MIS awards honor students, faculty, and staff

FOX IT Awards 2013

The Thirteenth Annual FOX IT awards on April 16, 2013 honored the following students, faculty and staff.

MIS STUDENT LEADERSHIP AWARD
Given annually to a student who has made a significant contribution to the students and extended community of the MIS department.
Ryan Oliveira

MIS STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Given to graduating MIS students for academic excellence.
Iris Kapo
Elias Hessler

MIS RESEARCHER OF THE YEAR AWARD
Given to a faculty member for excellence in research.
Paul Pavlou

MIS FACULTY LEADERSHIP AWARD
Given to a faculty member who has made a significant contribution to the students and extended community of the MIS department.
Richard Flanagan

MIS TEACHER OF THE YEAR AWARD
Given to a faculty member for excellence in teaching.
David Schuff

MIS ADJUNCT OF THE YEAR AWARD
Given to a faculty member for excellence in teaching.
Dina Lichtman

MIS ADMINISTRATIVE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Given annually to a MIS or IBIT administrative employee for outstanding performance.
Joseph Allegra

MIS ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERSHIP AWARD
Given to an administrator who has made a significant contribution to the students and extended community of the MIS department.
Cynthia Smith

IBIT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADERS SCHOLARSHIP
Jennifer O’Malley

NIRAJ AND CARA PATEL SCHOLARSHIP
Rachael Jill Voluck

JOHN H. SHAIN SCHOLARSHIP
Paula L. Kozak

ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS (AIS) AWARDS

AIS Outstanding Officer
Czarina Agravante

AIS Outstanding Member
Gabrielle Lopez

 

Yoo, Wattal, and Zhang receive $275,000 NSF grant to study organizational genetics

Organizational GeneticsProfessors Youngjin Yoo, Sunil Wattal, Bin Zhang, and Temple Biology Professor Rob Kulathinal were awarded a $275,000 NSF grant to study organizational genetics. This is the third NSF grant the researchers have received, since a grant from French research foundation CIGREF. In total, the research has received about $675,000 in grant funding. The organizational genetics project is titled “The structure and dynamics of generative innovations: An organizational genetics approach.”

The project will focus on how organizational ecosystems are built and evolve over time. For example, success and failure of digital products, such as smartphones, is determined by the size and scope of various apps that are built by third-party developers in the ecosystem.

Learn more…

Professor Pavlou explains how swift guanxi can facilitate online transactions

Paul PavlouProfessor Paul Pavlou explains that “guanxi” is “a close and pervasive interpersonal relationship” which has received little attention in e-commerce theory and practice, perhaps due to impersonal nature of online markets that assume that no interpersonal relationships exist or are necessary for online transactions to take place. He proposes that computer-mediated-communication (CMC) technologies can mimic traditional interactive face-to-face communications and enable a form of guanxi in online contexts, what he and his colleagues call in this research swift guanxi – consumer’s perception of a swiftly-formed interpersonal relationship with a seller that consists of mutual understanding, reciprocal favors, and relationship harmony.

In the research, they develop a model that explains how a set of CMC technologies (instant messaging, message box, feedback system) facilitate repeat transactions with sellers by building swift guanxi by mimicking interactivity and presence with sellers. Longitudinal data from 338 buyers in TaoBao (www.taobao.com), China’s leading online marketplace show that the effective use of CMC tools helps build swift guanxi by enhancing the consumer’s perceptions of interactivity and presence with sellers. In turn, swift guanxi predicts consumers’ actual repurchases from sellers on Taobao in the future, supporting the ability of IT-enabled CMC technologies to build guanxi and facilitate online transactions.

The research is forthcoming in Ou, Carol, Paul A. Pavlou, and Robert Davison (2013), “Swift Guanxi in Online Marketplaces: The Role of Computer-Mediated-Communication Technologies,” MIS Quarterly, (forthcoming).

Professor Pavlou was recently ranked number 1 in the world for research productivity, learn more…

New Business Analytics Minor in Collaboration with Statistics

Business Analytics MinorThe Management Information Systems department is pleased to announce a new Business Analytics Minor in collaboration with the Fox School’s Department of Statistics. The coursework exposes students to hands-on, cutting edge tools and techniques in predictive modeling, forecasting, association mining, cluster analysis, decision trees, unstructured “big” data, sentiment analysis, and experimental design. Students will develop skills in these areas and learn to apply them, enhancing their knowledge and marketability. The Business Analytics Minor is appropriate for all business majors who want to be at the forefront of using data effectively in their discipline.

Learn more…

Attention Fox School of Business: Time to Nominate a Leader!

Yes, it’s that time of year again, time to nominate a Fox IT Awards leadership award winner!

Is there an administrator, faculty member, or student who you feel made a significant contribution to the students and extended community of the MIS department during the calendar year 2011?

Complete the nomination form for a deserving recipient TODAY!
These three awards await your nominations:

Student Leadership – Awarded annually to a student who has made a significant contribution to the students and extended community of the MIS department.
Eligibility: All full time undergraduate MIS students, all full and part-time MIS graduate students.

Faculty Leadership – This award is given annually to a faculty member who has made a significant contribution to the students and extended community of the MIS department.
Eligibility: Full and part-time faculty who have been employed at Temple for at least two semesters including the current term.

Administrative Leadership – This award is given annually to an administrator who has made a significant contribution to the students and extended community of the MIS department.
Eligibility: Full time administrators of the Fox School of Business and Management (or other Temple U. administrators  who have been employed at Temple for at least two semesters including the current term.

Thank you for your attention to this important matter!

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