Comparing e-Learning tools’ success: The case of instructor–student interactive vs. self-paced tools

e-Learning tools have profoundly transformed modern pedagogical approaches. Vendors provide different types of systems, such as self-paced (SP) and instructor–student interactive (ISI) e-Learning tools. Although both types of tools represent promising solutions to facilitate the learning process, it is important to theoretically identify a framework to evaluate the success of these tools and assess whether one type of tool is more effective than another. Toward this end, we (1) propose a model to evaluate e-Learning tools’ success by extending and contextualizing Seddon’s information systems (IS) success model for the e-Learning environment and (2) formulate four hypotheses to predict the differences in the success factors between SP and ISI tools. We test the model and hypotheses using data from 783 students across seven higher education institutions in Hong Kong. The results support the proposed e-Learning tool success model and three of the four hypotheses. ISI tools outperform SP tools in terms of system quality, perceived usefulness, satisfaction, and learning outcome.     

Understanding the consequences of information systems service quality on IS service reuse

IS researchers have normally assumed that satisfaction is the key factor influencing IS customers’ reuse of services; however, a focus on customer satisfaction does not always guarantee customer retention. We synthesized customer satisfaction and dissatisfaction models from prior service quality research to provide a comprehensive model predicting the behavioral intentions of customers to reuse IS services. Five research hypotheses were empirically tested by using a field study of 263 users of an IS service department. Our findings placed IS service quality in a causal network leading to IS service reuse and highlighted the relative importance that service quality value played in predicting behavioral intention to reuse the service.     

涉密信息系统工程监理控制和评价模型初探

随着信息技术的发展,信息安全成为人们普遍关心的话题。本文通过对涉密信息化建设的考察,进行分析、思考,对涉密信息系统工程监理工作提出了建议,建立了用于控制和评价涉密信息系统工程信息安全的三维模型。     

Understanding factors affecting trust in and satisfaction with mobile banking in Korea: A modified DeLone and McLean’s model perspective

As mobile technology has developed, mobile banking has become accepted as part of daily life. Although many studies have been conducted to assess users’ satisfaction with mobile applications, none has focused on the ways in which the three quality factors associated with mobile banking – system quality, information quality and interface design quality – affect consumers’ trust and satisfaction. Our proposed research model, based on DeLone and McLean’s model, assesses how these three external quality factors can impact satisfaction and trust. We collected 276 valid questionnaires from mobile banking customers, then analyzed them using structural equation modeling. Our results show that system quality and information quality significantly influence customers’ trust and satisfaction, and that interface design quality does not. We present herein implications and suggestions for further research.     

An Experimental Investigation into the Effectiveness of OOA for Specifying Requirements

The application of object oriented concepts (OO) to the requirements phase of information systems (IS) and software development has been adopted by many proponents of IS and software development methodologies. Although many claims have been made about the effectiveness of OO techniques for improving requirements analysis, very few experimental studies have been done to substantiate these claims. This paper addresses this gap in the literature by conducting an experimental study that attempts to validate the effectiveness of object-oriented analysis (OOA) by comparing it to structured analysis (SA) for producing requirements. We argue that the quality of the requirements specification can be measured and that measurement can be used to compare the effectiveness of OOA and SA. We present an overview of the basic models and principles associated with OOA and SA, a discussion of quality in requirements definition, and a detailed discussion of the research methodology used. A review of relevant research is also presented and directions for further research are suggested. Our findings suggest that the OOA methodology does not necessarily produce better requirements statements.     

SPI总线的UART扩展方法

借助于微处理器的SPI总线接口,利用NXP公司的一款芯片SC16IS752,提出一种基于SPI转UART的软硬件设计方案;着重介绍SPI-UART转换原理,并结合实际的应用系统,讨论了整个设计的可行性和实用性.实际应用表明,该方案经济、实用.     

A multi-level, multi-theory perspective of information technology implementation

Abstract.  Much of information technology (IT) implementation research has focused on individuals' acceptance of IT by examining their behaviour when faced with new IT and the antecedents of these behaviours. As they are frequently undertaken within a project framework, IT implementations also entail the application of project management practices in order to be successful. Based on the premise that antecedents of lower level theories are frequently determined by the outcomes of a higher level theory, the present paper illustrates how organizational-level decisions, examined from the perspective of economics theories, can help explain the antecedents of project risk management at the project and individual levels. To do so, the paper describes an IT implementation effort which went through three phases; the first two of which were abandoned versions of the same project. An organizational-level analysis of the case from an economics perspective and its project-level analysis from a risk management perspective show how organizational-level decisions influenced the antecedents at the project and individual levels, providing a more complete understanding of the IT implementation in question, an understanding which neither a theory approach nor a level perspective could provide on its own.     

An approach to analyzing and planning post-merger IS integration: Insights from two field studies

Information systems (IS) integration is among the most challenging tasks in corporate mergers and acquisitions (M&As). In this paper we propose and illustrate the use of an approach to analyzing and planning post-merger IS integration that extends general theory for IS planning, considering the specific characteristics of the M&A context. We highlight that planning effectiveness is possible to achieve in fundamentally different ways, dependent on the characteristics of the merger or acquisition at hand.

用户参与专业虚拟社区的满意度影响因素研究

以信息系统成功模型和技术接受模型为理论基础,分析了影响专业虚拟社区的用户满意度的若干影响因素,基于提出的假设,构建了诸多因素与满意度之间的研究模型;以参与专业虚拟社区的用户为调查对象,采用统计软件AMOS对研究模型进行了实证分析。研究发现,众多满意度直接前置影响因素中,影响程度较为显著的依次是系统质量、知识质量、感知的社会交互和感知易用性4个因素。该研究为社区管理者建设专业虚拟社区、提升社区服务品质提供了对策。     

一种带权限管理的EPC IS设计方案

EPC IS在物联网中处于核心地位,它担负着对大量EPC数据和PML文件的处理解析任务.在传统的EPCIS的基础上,结合可扩展的访问控制高标识语言(XACML),提出了一种带权限管理的EPC IS设计方案,以解决企业之间互相访问EPC IS所带来的一系列安全问题.首先介绍了传统的EPC IS的架构和作用以及所带来的安全隐患,然后引入了XACML,重点分析如何实现权限管理,最后针对跨企业的供应链管理系统给出一个带权限管理的EPC IS设计方案.