Information management courses in Australia: what do they teach?

Philip Hider; Stuart Ferguson

Information management courses in Australia: what do they teach?

Philip Hider, Stuart Ferguson

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Abstract

Examines the nature and content of Information Management courses currently offered by Australian universities, through an analysis of subject abstracts taken from the courses’ web pages. A lack of overlap between course content indicates the heterogenous nature of IM education and that courses may have had different disciplinary origins. On the other hand, the courses broadly conform to Gorman and Corbitt’s model of core competencies for IM, which represent the intersection of LIS and IS approaches. This suggests that despite differences in the details of syllabi, there is a common understanding amongst Australian academics that IM education should cover key middle ground between systems-based and user-based fields of study.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	18th ACIS
Subtitle of host publication	the 3 Rs: research, relevance and rigour - coming of age
Editors	Mark Toleman, Aileen Cater- Cater-Steel, Dave Roberts
Place of Publication	Toowoomba, Australia
Publisher	ACIS
Pages	287-293
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9780909756963
Publication status	Published - 2007
Event	Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS) - University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia Duration: 05 Dec 2007 → 07 Dec 2007 https://eprints.usq.edu.au/4133/ (Conference proceedings)

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Conference	Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS)
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Toowoomba
Period	05/12/07 → 07/12/07
Internet address	https://eprints.usq.edu.au/4133/ (Conference proceedings)

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