Welcome to SCIS!
Our aim is to offer relevant, up-to-date and research-informed computing and information systems education, at the time and place convenient for every student. SCIS faculty integrate research in distance education technology with course development and delivery. Our students' learning experiences and feedback are essential to course development and revision.
Our mission
We aim to produce and deliver world-leading research and the highest quality online education in the areas of computing and information systems.
We are dedicated to scholarship and committed to building and sustaining a mutually supportive learning community. This is characterized by caring and respectful relationships within the school among all of our staff, all of our students and with external stakeholders.
Our vision
Within 10 years, SCIS will become one of the most significant and acclaimed higher education computing departments in the world, innovating in both research and online learning.
Learning with SCIS will be even more personal, adaptive and flexible. Our courses and programs will better adjust to and cater to a growing number of ever more diverse students from around the globe with ever more diverse needs and backgrounds. We will adapt with an ever-increasing diversity of high-quality, innovative and cutting-edge programs, courses, technologies and pedagogies. Our students will enjoy ever-greater freedom of choice over the place, time, pace, level of engagement and content of their learning. They will continue to be among the most employable and rapidly progressing students in the sector. Our teaching will continue to both inform and be informed by partners in industry as well as research.
We will continue to be internationally respected for our research excellence, attracting high quality faculty and research staff who are at the forefront of their fields. SCIS will be academically eminent, globally renowned for its advanced learning, its advanced pedagogies and its advanced learning technologies.
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SCIS is now offering access to the MSDN Academic Alliance Software Center
The MSDN Academic Alliance Software Center offers a group of Microsoft products that are available free-of-charge to SCIS faculty and students at Athabasca University.
[Published: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:34:00 MDT]
SCIS is pleased to announce that our graduate student, Mr. Jeff Rusk, has completed his project for the MSc IS. The project topic is "Semantic Web
Services-based Reasoning in the Design of Software Product Lines".
[Published: Wed, 15 Sep 2009 07:20:00 MDT]
SCIS Graduate Student, Eduardo Werneck, Completes Game-based Learning Project
SCIS is pleased to announce that our graduate student, Mr. Eduardo Werneck, has completed his project with his company. The project topic is "Designing a Game-based
Learning System for an Informal Learning in the Real World", designed a job training game for new employees of the company.
[Published: Wed, 10 June 2009 15:20:00 MDT]
SCIS Tutor Wins Outstanding Mentor Award
Regner Sabillon, an individualized study tutor in the School of Computing and Information Systems, has received the 2009 Outstanding Mentor Award in
the Network Professional Association Awards for Professionalism.
[Published: Tues, 9 June 2009 07:22:00 MDT]
Dr. Jon Dron and Dr. Terry Anderson receive $200K Alberta Government Access to the Future Fund
The Alberta Government's Access to the Future Fund is providing $200K to Dr. Jon Dron and Dr. Terry Anderson for a two year design-based research project entitled 'Social
Spaces', an investigation into approaches to the the design and use of social technologies for learning.
[Published: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:12:00 MDT]
Dr Kinshuk awarded ACM Senior Membership
Dr. Kinshuk elevated to ACM Senior Membership grade
[Published: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:13:00 MDT]
Dr. Kinshuk awarded NSERC Discovery Grant
Dr. Kinshuk received a grant worth $95,000 for research on "Adaptive Approaches for Mobile Learning".
[Published: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:05:00 MDT]
Profiling Alberta's Graduate Students Award
This award is intended to provide financial support to Athabasca University (AU) graduate level program students who have been invited to participate in
national
and
international conferences.
[Published: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:45:00 MDT]
SAP North America Scholarship Program - 2009-2010 Academic Year
The SAP North America Scholarship Program wishes to recognize outstanding undergraduate students pursuing a degree in business, computer science, engineering or
mathematics. Each academic year, SAP will award up to 15 students with a $5,000 scholarship (in local currency), intended to assist students in defraying tuition expenses
for that one academic year.
[Published: Thur, 16 Apr 2009 09:45:00 MDT]
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