EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS: IMPLEMENTATION AND ASSESSMENT

摘要

In the natural sciences, collecting and comparing living specimens have long been a popular, collaborative mode of discovery and learning. In information systems, specimens are human-created, evolving with great speed. Expeditionary learning - where students collaboratively discover, catalogue, and compare rapidly evolving information system specimens - is an innovative and effective approach for learners in the IS field. Though expeditionary learning does not yield improved course evaluations, we demonstrate that learners' skills and confidence to pursue the subject area are improved. Learning by expedition has a strong, positive community impact, and compares favorably to conventional experiential and service learning styles.