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ISBN-13: 978-0-13-463520-0 ISBN-10: 0-13-463520-5

INFORMATION SYSTEMS TODAY M A N A G I N G I N T H E D I G I T A L W O R L D

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Joseph Valacich Christoph Schneider

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MIS: Engage, Apply, Empower

• Learning Catalytics™—is an interactive, student response tool that uses students’ smartphones, tablets, or laptops to engage them in more sophisticated tasks and critical thinking as well as collaboration with other class members. Included with MyLab with eText, Learning Catalytics enables you to generate classroom discussion, guide your lecture, and promote peer-to-peer learning with real-time analytics.

• Enhanced eText—keeps students engaged in learning on their own time, while helping them achieve greater conceptual understanding of course material. The embedded videos, simulations, and activities bring learning to life. to apply the very concepts they are reading about. Combining resources that illuminate content with accessible self-assessment, MyLab with Enhanced eText provides students with a complete digital learning experience—all in one place.

• Dynamic Study Modules—help students learn the language of MIS by continuously assessing their activity and performance in real time by adapting to the student’s knowledge and confidence on each concept. These are available as graded assignments prior to class, and accessible on smartphones, tablets, and computers.

• Reporting Dashboard—View, analyze, and report learning outcomes clearly and easily, and get the information needed to keep students on track throughout the course with the new Reporting Dashboard. Available via the MyLab Gradebook and fully mobile-ready, the Reporting Dashboard presents student performance data at the class, section, and program levels in an accessible, visual manner.

• Accessibility (ADA)—Pearson is working toward WCAG 2.0 Level AA and Section 508 standards, as expressed in the Pearson Guidelines for Accessible Educational Web Media. Moreover, our products support customers in meeting their obligation to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by providing access to learning technology programs for users with disabilities.

Please email our Accessibility Team at disability.support@pearson.com for the most up-to-date information.

• LMS Integration—You can now link from Blackboard Learn, Brightspace by D2L, Canvas, or Moodle to MyISLab. Professors can acess assignments, rosters, and resources, and synchronize grades with your LMS gradebook.

Single sign-on provides students access to all the personalized learning resources that make studying more efficient and effective.

• Branching, Decision-Making Simulations—students take on the role of manager as they make a series of decisions based on a realistic business challenge, fostering decision making and problem solving skills. The simulations change and branch based on their decisions, creating various scenario paths. At the end of each simulation, students receive a grade and a detailed report of the choices they made with the associated consequences included.

• Writing Space—Better writers make better communicators— who become better managers. Designed to help develop and assess concept mastery and critical thinking, the Writing Space offers auto-graded writing assignments, and assisted auto-graded writing assignments so students can receive meaningful, personalized feedback quickly and easily. And because of Intergration with Turnitin®, Writing Space can check students’ work for improper citation or plagiarism.

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Office 2016 Grader Projects—Students complete projects in Excel and Access to demonstrate problem solving, critical thinking, and data analysis skills. Projects are automatically graded and include feedback. Integrity tokens in each project prevent and detect cheating.

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Information systems have become pervasive. Mobile devices, social media, and cloud computing have transformed organizations and society. The Internet of Things can generate a wealth of potentially useful Big Data. The rapid development of transportation and telecommunication technologies, national and global infrastructures, and information systems as well as a host of other factors has created a number of pressing societal issues that tremendously influence the world we live in. These issues include demographic changes, urbanization, shifts in economic power, resource scarcity, and climate change. As a consequence, sustainable development will become an ever increasingly important aspect for organizations. Throughout this revision, we discuss how organizations can harness radical innovations and other technological developments, as well as the role of information systems in influencing and addressing pressing societal issues; further, we added a new chapter element about the role of Green IT. We designed the book’s cover to emphasize how IT resides within and influences various societal issues.

• Learning Catalytics™—is an interactive, student response tool that uses students’ smartphones, tablets, or laptops to engage them in more sophisticated tasks and critical thinking as well as collaboration with other class members. Included with MyLab with eText, Learning Catalytics enables you to generate classroom discussion, guide your lecture, and promote peer-to-peer learning with real-time analytics.

• Enhanced eText—keeps students engaged in learning on their own time, while helping them achieve greater conceptual understanding of course material. The embedded videos, simulations, and activities bring learning to life. to apply the very concepts they are reading about. Combining resources that illuminate content with accessible self-assessment, MyLab with Enhanced eText provides students with a complete digital learning experience—all in one place.

• Dynamic Study Modules—help students learn the language of MIS by continuously assessing their activity and performance in real time by adapting to the student’s knowledge and confidence on each concept. These are available as graded assignments prior to class, and accessible on smartphones, tablets, and computers.

• Reporting Dashboard—View, analyze, and report learning outcomes clearly and easily, and get the information needed to keep students on track throughout the course with the new Reporting Dashboard. Available via the MyLab Gradebook and fully mobile-ready, the Reporting Dashboard presents student performance data at the class, section, and program levels in an accessible, visual manner.

• Accessibility (ADA)—Pearson is working toward WCAG 2.0 Level AA and Section 508 standards, as expressed in the Pearson Guidelines for Accessible Educational Web Media. Moreover, our products support customers in meeting their obligation to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by providing access to learning technology programs for users with disabilities.

Please email our Accessibility Team at disability.support@pearson.com for the most up-to-date information.

• LMS Integration—You can now link from Blackboard Learn, Brightspace by D2L, Canvas, or Moodle to MyISLab. Professors can acess assignments, rosters, and resources, and synchronize grades with your LMS gradebook.

Single sign-on provides students access to all the personalized learning resources that make studying more efficient and effective.

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INFORMATION SYSTEMS TODAY

Joseph Valacich University of Arizona

Christoph Schneider City University of Hong Kong

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Dedication

To my mother Mary, you are the best. —Joe

To Birgit for your love and support. —Christoph

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