Title :
A Teaching Tool for Information Quality
Author :
Ge, Mouzhi ; Helfert, Markus
Author_Institution :
Bus. Inf. Group, Dublin City Univ., Dublin, Ireland
Abstract :
Over the last years information quality gained increasingly importance in practice as well as academia. Recently aspects of information quality are included in curricula. However, teaching information quality to the students is challenging and often with a theoretical focus. As a consequence many graduates have a limited understanding of information quality issues and its importance. In order to help teaching students information quality issues, we propose a teaching tool that can help the students to understand the importance of information quality management. The tool can show the effects of information quality on organizational decision-making.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; decision making; information science education; information systems; teaching; graduates; information quality education; information quality management; organizational decision-making; students; teaching tool; Books; Decision making; Education; Educational institutions; Educational programs; Informatics; Information resources; Information systems; Management training; Quality management; effects of information quality; information quality education;
Conference_Titel :
Cooperation and Promotion of Information Resources in Science and Technology, 2009. COINFO '09. Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3898-3
DOI :
10.1109/COINFO.2009.48