Thoria Alghamdi

Work place: Information Systems Department, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

E-mail: Thalghamdi@yahoo.com

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Research Interests: Medical Informatics

Biography

Dr. Arwa Jamjoom is a lecturer at the Information Systems Department of King Abdulaziz University; she received her Ph.D. degree in computer science from Surrey University, UK, in 2011. She received her M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from University of Southern California, United States, in 1997. She received her B.Sc. in computer science from King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in 1993. her main research interests concern data warehousing and health informatics. 

Author Articles
Developing E-Business Strategies Curriculum Case Study in the Information Systems Department

By Thoria Alghamdi Arwa Jamjoom

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijmecs.2012.02.01, Pub. Date: 8 Feb. 2012

E-Business Strategies (EBS) is an elective course in the Information Systems Department, Faculty of Computing & Information Technology at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah. In this course, students learn many concepts regarding e-business, such as strategies, models, relationships and so on. Also, they improve their leadership skills, such as analyzing the business environment and take the decisions. In this paper, we address the main challenges faced by the EBS course developers and study all the components of the existing EBS course. We then determine a learning strategy using an Outcomes-based Education (OBE) approach and redesign the course using an Active Learning Approach. This paper provides comprehensive information concerning an EBS course in terms of its importance, goals, textbook and evaluation tools.

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