Theory of Business Informatics
Organization and assessment
Teachers
Online platform
MS Teams (needed MUNI Office account) - team code is vdldi3b
The link to the team is here
Expected
learning outcomes
- Exploration
of the nature of theory and types of theories in business and management research.
- Present,
explain, and critically examine theories used in business informatics research, their use, and the contested issues.
- Evaluate different business informatics theories, choose one, synthesize, and use that for research or application.
Major learning activities
- The
course combines different teaching methods where the purpose is to engage the
students in discussions and critical thinking actively.
- The
employed teaching methods are anchored in the flipped classroom and case-based
learning (with international diversity of cases).
- The
focus will also be on pre-lecture quizzes, seminar activities, student
presentations, and active discussion in this course.
- Students
will give presentations (in groups of two to three) of relevant applications of
theories in research and practice and different international contexts.
- Students will be prepared to write a research proposal.
Assessment
The assessment of
this course is based on four assignments.
- First, you must study the reading
material before each session and attend the pre-class online quiz. 10% of your credit will be assigned based on
the achieved mark in the quiz. Another 10% will be assigned based on your
active participation during the discussion in the lecture session. Overall, 20%
will be accounted for this assignment.
- Second, groups of 2-3 students must be
created by the start of the third week. Students must make their team and
inform the tutor of the team formation. Otherwise, the tutor will randomly make teams. Each group has to choose a topic from the list (see course
schedule). Otherwise, one topic will be assigned to groups randomly. Each group
has to choose a paper related to the associated theory from a list of papers
that will be provided by the tutor (you are free to propose other related
papers that must be confirmed with the tutor). Then, the group will prepare a
paper presentation on their chosen topic. This will include describing an
application of the chosen theory in a domain, conceptualization, and
operationalization of the theory, method, limitations, etc. Applications of the
theory in international contexts and discussing the potential differences in
different contexts (e.g., technological, social) are highly appreciated. The
associated group will get 30% of the course credit for this activity. The presentation will be assessed by the tutor and also peers based on the a) quality of the paper
- Third, students shall prepare a research proposal individually and submit it to Ahad. This will include presenting a research or practice problem and suggesting a theory to solve the problem. The proposal can be a foundation for your thesis that you must enrol in the following semester. The deadline to submit up to three topics to Ahad is 15th December. One topic will be chosen by the end of December (early submissions are welcome, so you will have more time to develop the proposal). Students will need to submit the final proposal by 10th February. It is recommended to share the work in progress with Ahad for early feedback. This assignment has 50% of the credit. The following template must be used to prepare the proposal.
To sum up, the share of each assignment in your final mark is as
follows. To pass the course, you must achieve at least 50% of the points from each part. Meanwhile, you cannot skip some assignments.
- Pre-Class Online Quizzes
and Class Discussion: 20% (10% each)
- Paper summary and presentation:
30%
- Research Proposal: 50%
- Active participation: Extra 10%
- A >= 90 points
- B >= 80 points
- C >= 70 points
- D >= 60 points
- E >= 55 points