2019-2020 Graduate/Doctorate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Healthcare Informatics |
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HCIN 515 - Essential Informatics Skills I
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This is the first half of the keystone course for the Program in Healthcare Informatics, both for the certificate and the master’s degree. The student engages in a 3-credit executive format course which provides them with a robust set of tools for devising customized potential solutions to a range of Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) implementation challenges facing healthcare systems today. Interactive sessions are needed to facilitate mastery of interpersonal skills. The goal of the course is familiarity with basic techniques and current best practices for the planning, evaluation, implementation, adoption and optimization of healthcare IT systems. The successful learner will be able to plan and execute HIT projects, facilitate change, communicate effectively with all staff, and intervene with problem adopters.
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HCIN 520 - Essential Informatics Skills II
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: HCIN 515
Description: This is the second half of the keystone course for the Program in Healthcare Informatics, both for the certificate and the master’s degree. The student engages in a 3-credit executive format course that provides them with a robust set of tools for devising customized potential solutions to a range of Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) implementation challenges facing healthcare systems today. Interactive sessions are needed to facilitate mastery of interpersonal skills. The goal of the course is familiarity with basic techniques and current best practices for the planning, evaluation, implementation, adoption and optimization of healthcare IT systems. The successful learner will be able to lead multidisciplinary teams, plan and execute HIT projects, work in an Agile/Lean environment, leverage adult learning theory, optimize the human-computer interface, and advise on HIT compliance issues.
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HCIN 545 - Healthcare Data
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course addresses the central role of healthcare data in both health outcomes and business operations. This is the basic course in healthcare data management for the ISEM graduate program as well as the program in Healthcare Informatics, both the certificate and master’s degree. The goal of the course is familiarity with basic techniques and current best practices for the governance, collection, cleaning, storage, sharing and handling of healthcare data. Case-based and project-based approaches are used for discussion and assignments. Prior experience in healthcare systems is not required, but knowledge of material contained in ISEM 541 Healthcare Systems is helpful in establishing context. Cross-listed with ISEM 545 .
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HCIN 550 - Introduction to Healthcare Analytics
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This is the analytics survey course for the Program in Healthcare Informatics, both for the certificate and the master’s degree. Graduate students are exposed to the wide range of analytics tools and techniques used in today’s workplace. The ultimate goal of the course is familiarity with the strengths and limitations of these tools so that successful learners return to their workplaces with sufficient knowledge to ask appropriate questions of the available data, choose the appropriate tools and techniques used to analyze the available data, and explain the strengths and weaknesses of any inferences made. Master’s Degree students in Healthcare Analytics desiring more in-depth analytics application knowledge will pursue elective courses in ANLY. The student does not require mathematical knowledge beyond high school level algebra, although introductory calculus knowledge facilitates understanding in a few areas such as matrices, vectors, and rates of change.
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HCIN 699 - Applied Project in HCIN
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: GRAD 695 and permission of instructor
Description: This course allows the student to pursue an area of interest that is within the broad scope of HCIN. A faculty member will supervise this study.
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Information Systems Engineering and Management |
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ISEM 500 - Strategic Information Systems Planning, Engineering and Management of Enterprises
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course introduces the basic principles (systems thinking and quantitative methods) of systems engineering and shows how these principles can be used to strategically plan, integrate, secure and administer the complex information systems that support and drive the current and future digital enterprises. Topics include: digital enterprises, aligning information technology strategy to business strategy, enterprise applications (customer relations management, procurement, supply chain management), ecommerce, decision support, knowledge management, artificial intelligence (AI) applications, cost/benefit analysis and information technology infrastructure. These topics are explained through case studies and examples by using a strategic planning methodology.
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ISEM 501 - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Principles
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None (This course is designed for the student that does not have a CS or IT background.)
Description: This course provides the basic background in the rapidly advancing field of information and communication technologies (ICTs). It offers a rigorous overview of the current, as well as emerging, ICT building blocks that enable and drive modern enterprises. The first part of the course introduces the student to the key building blocks (enterprise applications, computing platforms, databases, and networks) of the modern IT infrastructure. The emphasis is on the Internet, broadband wired and wireless networks, classical Web, Semantic Web, XML, Web 2.0, social networking, and mobile computing. The second part of the course introduces the student to the main aspects of software development processes through hands-on projects. Basic software concepts are explored within this context by developing simple web sites using HTML and then using JavaScript, Java applets and XML to introduce more sophisticated features. The student has an opportunity to learn database technologies and run simple database queries using SQL.
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ISEM 502 - User-Centered Design
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: A high level of end-user and client involvement is absolutely critical in creating usable and effective software and technology that attracts audiences and/or generates revenue. User- centered design (UCD) describes an approach to business analysis and technology development that demands user interaction and user feedback in all stages of the development lifecycle. The UCD process involves a collection of activities and techniques that can be used to create the more usable, intuitive, and effective technology possible. This course covers the full range of UCD methods and demonstrates the importance of these techniques in designing and building interactive technology, focusing mostly on software applications.
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ISEM 503 - Artificial Intelligence Principles and Applications
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: ISEM 500
Description: Interdisciplinary presentation of artificial intelligence as a coherent body of knowledge to acquaint the student with the key concepts and applications in business, science and engineering. The course covers models of intelligent behavior, including problem solving, knowledge representation, reason, planning, decision making, learning, perception, pattern recognition, action, communication and interaction. Recent developments in knowledge management, expert systems, computer-aided consulting and integrated intelligent systems are covered through a wide range of case studies, examples and hand-on experiments.
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ISEM 515 - Commercialization of New Technologies
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course is designed to prepare a Next Generation Technologist for taking their innovation to the public marketplace. It is an introduction to a wide range of practical aspects, which are important to realizing the commercial potential of the innovation. Topics include corporate formation, team recruitment, intellectual property protection, supply-chain development, production and scaling, marketing and sales, media relations, venture capital markets, investor relations, social and business networks, organizational culture, and business development.
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ISEM 520 - Service Science, Management and Engineering
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course addresses Service Science, Management and Engineering (SSME) as a growing discipline that integrates aspects of established fields like computer science, operations research, engineering, management sciences, business strategy, social and cognitive sciences, and legal sciences.
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ISEM 521 - Life Science for IT Professionals
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course provides an ample spectrum of basic topics such as life science fundamentals, gradually leading to introduction to the interface between automation/IT applications for several fields of such as medicine, diagnostics, medical devices, agriculture, environment, food, pharmaceutics, and Nanobiotechnology. These topics allow the student to be introduced to an area of specialization in IT support, bioinformatics research or programming applications for the life sciences industry. The course starts with an overview of essential concepts of biological systems and proceeds to the structures and functions cellular macromolecules, particularly nucleic acids and proteins directly involved in storage and retrieval of biological information. After building a sound introduction to the basics of the living system, the course introduces the interface between these basic structures and applications of information technology to a variety of fields of applied life science.
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ISEM 525 - Business Process Modeling and Workflow Systems
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: ISEM 500 or PMGT 510
Description: This course introduces the concepts of business process modeling and workflow systems in modern enterprises. In-depth modeling techniques used to capture business processes, workflows and conceptual information models are covered. Emphasis is placed on business modeling techniques such as the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), business-use case modeling, Entity Relationship (ER) modeling, and other selected techniques from the Unified Modeling Language. The emphasis is on concepts and how these concepts are being used in practice by the most recent tools. The student develops business models to reflect case studies and real-world scenarios.
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ISEM 528 - Industry Analysis and Technology Patterns
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: Complex interdependencies exist between various industry sectors and emerging technologies. This course is designed to prepare a Next Generation Technologist for a broad understanding of industries and their dependence on emerging technologies. Topics include analysis of the key industry sectors in the digital age and an examination of their financial and logistical interdependencies. Focus is on industry ecosystem as the network of organizations - including suppliers, distributors, customers, competitors, government agencies, and others - involved in the delivery of a specific product or service through competition, cooperation, and organizational learning. Particular attention is paid to the role of substitute technologies that could disrupt an entire industry ecosystem. Several real-life case studies and examples with particular focus on supply chains will be used to illustrate the key points.
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ISEM 530 - Analysis and Design of Modern Information Systems
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: ISEM 500
Description: This course prepares the student to analyze business information systems and to build models and logical designs that can be later implemented. The emphasis is on the business processes and business requirements needed to build conceptual models that help in analysis of business requirements. This course prepares the student to design complex systems and build applied designs and architectures.
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ISEM 534 - Database Design and Management
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course emphasizes the practical aspects of the design and administration of modern Database Management Systems (DBMSs) that host enterprise data. Specific topics include the role of data in modern enterprises and the data life cycle that spans conceptual database design, database query languages such as SQL, database integrity rules, database administration, and data warehouses. This course utilizes commercially available relational DBMSs for hands-on experiments and explore how to create an entity-relationship data model, translate that model into relational schema, build and use a relational database that implements the schema, create SQL queries to retrieve and manipulate needed data, provide access to remote databases from web browsers, and experiment with DBA (Database Administration) capabilities. The student also investigates recent developments in database technologies (e.g. NoSQL). This course prepares the student for database design and administration positions and will also provide the necessary background for more specialized courses in database systems.
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ISEM 536 - IT Infrastructure and the Internet
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: ISEM 501 or permission of the instructor. (This course is designed for the student that does not have a CS or IT background.)
Description: This course concentrates on the practical aspects of Internet technologies, architectures and administration. Topics include: IT infrastructure, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), communications network principles, Internet Protocols, IPv4, IPv6, TCP sockets, and Internet of Things (IoTs). Administrative topics are network management, website administration, introduction to network security, wireless technologies and mobile computing. Classroom projects expose the student to network architectures for small to large enterprises. This course prepares the student for network planning administration positions and provides the necessary background for more specialized courses in communication networks.
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ISEM 539 - Enterprise Architecture Frameworks
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: ISEM 500
Description: This course provides an overview of the common enterprise-wide architectural framework that drives business decisions regarding selection, implementation and management of ICT systems and solutions. In addition, different enterprise architecture frameworks are reviewed and the most commonly used framework - TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework) - is examined in detail. The course topics include supporting and transforming Global Value Chains; e-business designs; creating an enterprise architecture; and the various methodologies, tools and techniques used in the design and implementation of the enterprise architecture. The course encompasses all aspects of information and communications technology, including data networks, applications, operating systems, database systems, telecommunications systems, and hardware components in the context of a total enterprise-wide framework.
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ISEM 540 - Enterprise Architecture and Integration
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: ISEM 500
Description: Modern digital enterprises are characterized by increased automation, mobile services, extended B2B operations with global business partners, and on-demand business services. This course presents a ‘systems’ perspective based on service-oriented architecture (SOA) that combines processes, people and technologies, and highlights the role of information and communication technologies, enterprise models, and emerging SOA standards to develop flexible and integrated business architectures.
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ISEM 541 - Healthcare Systems
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course covers the basic principles, models and approaches of healthcare systems and introduces healthcare administration topics. The focus of the course is not on technologies but instead on the business and management aspects of healthcare. The course introduces the student to a wide range of healthcare topics such as healthcare business processes and business patterns, healthcare business process re-engineering and integration, healthcare clinical systems and services (patient care, physician support systems, health networks), hospital systems, management concerns, and government regulations. In addition, varied approaches and models of healthcare administration at local, national and international levels are discussed.
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ISEM 542 - Health Informatics and Information Systems
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: ISEM 541 and a basic understanding of modern information systems
Description: This course introduces the basic concepts of healthcare information systems and explains the role of information and communication technologies in current and future healthcare systems. The course reviews the role of different players in healthcare: providers, physicians, and insurance companies. Topics covered in healthcare informatics include: health information networks (HINs) at local, regional, national and global levels; information technology systems and applications; standards and interoperability topics; electronic health records (EHR) and EMR; clinical decision support; computer physician order entry (CPOE), and e-prescriptions, privacy and security concerns, financial/administrative systems, and examples of IT infrastructure for healthcare. Cross-listed with HCIN 500 .
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ISEM 543 - Digital Health
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: ISEM 542
Description: This course explains the basic principles of e-Health and m (mobile)-Health through case studies and examples. The student is shown how to effectively develop and administer e-Health systems using web technologies. A wide range of case studies and examples of e-Health systems are used. The course also examines how wireless networks and mobile computing applications are used in healthcare informatics. The student investigates the latest developments in the field and identifies research topics of importance.
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ISEM 544 - Social, Technical and Organizational Issues in Digital Health
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: ISEM 542 and permission of instructor
Description: This course covers a wide range of socio-technical issues in healthcare information technologies. The focus is on the healthcare workplace as a dynamic system in which people, processes and technologies interact and influence each other. The course focuses on the people, processes and technologies related to important areas such as security and privacy, public policies and regulations, medical decision support systems and knowledge management in healthcare, electronic health records (HER), telemedicine systems, wireless sensor networks in healthcare, and others. Case studies and examples are used highlight practical aspects of socio-technical interactions.
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ISEM 545 - Healthcare Data
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course addresses the central role of healthcare data in both health outcomes and business operations. This is the basic course in healthcare data management for the ISEM graduate program as well as the program in Healthcare Informatics, both the certificate and master’s degree. The goal of the course is familiarity with basic techniques and current best practices for the governance, collection, cleaning, storage, sharing and handling of healthcare data. Case-based and project-based approaches are used for discussion and assignments. Prior experience in healthcare systems is not required, but knowledge of material contained in ISEM 541 Healthcare Systems is helpful in establishing context. Cross-listed with HCIN 545 .
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ISEM 547 - IT Management
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: ISEM 500 or permission of instructor
Description: This course introduces the core principles and practical methods and techniques for effectively managing Information Technology (IT) systems and organizations. The emphasis is on business and information technology for planning, investing, budgeting, assessing value and risks, as well as governing and securing Information Technology organizations and assets. Topics include management and leadership roles and challenges associated with IT manager in the digital enterprise, organizational design for flexible IT organizations, corporate and IT governance frameworks, IT policies and controls for the business, risk assessments and response planning, IT finance and budgeting, and the role of close-based IT services in modern organizations. Extensive practical exercises and case study method will be used throughout the course.
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ISEM 550 - Information Security Management
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: ISEM 500
Description: This course covers the technical and administrative aspects of security, privacy and control that are vital to IS management. A comprehensive overview of security and IT control principles and practices that are needed to satisfy the IS systems integrity, confidentiality and availability requirements are addressed. Topics include security awareness, IS Security and Control Practices, IT audit principles and standards, risk analysis, and process-flow analysis for auditing.
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ISEM 551 - Web-based Software Engineering
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: ISEM 501 or IT/CS background or degree
Description: This course is an introduction to web-based software engineering environments, design patterns, frameworks and key architectural aspects of robust enterprise applications. Topics for software development technologies include development languages and frameworks (e.g., .Net, Java, open-source), various tools used during the development lifecycle, and key components of an application in terms of the data, process and presentation layers. Architectural topics include prevalent design patterns such as model-view-controller (MVC), Web Services, and service-oriented architecture (SOA). The student uses computer-aided software engineering (CASE) environments and develops software architectures of real-life enterprise applications.
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ISEM 555 - Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: ISEM 500
Description: This course provides a management overview of wireless networking and mobile computing with a key focus on the building blocks and their inter-relationships.
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ISEM 558 - IoTs and Embedded Systems
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: Graduate Standing
Description: This course is an introduction to the area of Internet of Things (IoTs) with a special focus on Embedded Systems and their applications. The course addresses a wide breadth of technologies and standards used to support this rapidly evolving domain. This includes the embedded system hardware, software, and operating systems. It also goes through wireless connectivity systems used for IoT, as well as the cloud support. The student will have an opportunity to explore current and future applications of IoTs and embedded systems in healthcare, energy, manufacturing, agriculture, transportation, and other vial sectors.
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ISEM 560 - eGovernment and eCommerce
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: ISEM 500
Description: eGovernment and eCommerce (EG/EC) are changing the landscape of business. This course introduces the basic building blocks of EG/EC with an emphasis on strategies and applications and a brief discussion of the enabling technologies. The course provides a review of EC models and applications such as online purchasing, customer relationship management, electronic marketplaces, application service providers, supply chains, enterprise resource planning, and enterprise portals.
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ISEM 561 - Public Administration
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: MGMT 511
Description: This course introduces the concepts of public administration with emphasis on key building blocks such as business processes, leadership, personnel management, budgeting, law enforcement and social welfare. The objective is to examine how public sector organizations work and how administrators can operate in such environments. The course covers the most important functions and processes of government agencies and non-profit organizations. The leadership strategies for increased public-sector effectiveness through the typical management processes of planning, organizing, monitoring, control and governance are discussed. The sources of public and non-profit revenue and expenditures are examined in the context of budget management. The topics of law enforcement management with public and non-profit managers are briefly reviewed with an emphasis on human resource accounting and personnel management. Public administrators are invited as guest speakers for local and global perspectives on these topics and to compare/contrast public agencies with their private sector counterparts.
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ISEM 562 - Public Policy
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: Graduate Standing
Description: This course gives an overview of the broad field of public policy and examines the key concepts, theories and practical operational methods of public policy. The course presents with an examination of the core concepts in the formulation, implementation, and impact of public policy and covers the role of administrative law in the formulation, implementation and evaluation of public policy. The ethical arguments inherent in public policy decisions and compliance with legislated ethical standards are examined. The policies, politics and administrative activities of federal, state, and local levels are considered. The interaction of the public sector, the private sector, and citizen groups in the implementation of environmental policy is discussed and the role of planning process as a decision-making tool in the implementation of public policy is examined. The course uses a wide range of national and international policy examples in areas such as housing and community development, social welfare, employment programs, transportation, the internet and telecommunications.
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ISEM 564 - Big Data Applications
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: ISEM 501 or ISEM 534 , or permission of instructor
Description: This course introduces the main concepts of big data with focus on applications of big data and data sciences in business settings. The student explores several Open Big Data (OBD) sources and investigates applications of OBD in health, education, public safety, public welfare and other vital sectors. Through hands-on experiments, the student develops a significant understanding of data science and practical applications of big data. Some tools used by practitioners of data science and analytics are introduced but sophisticated mathematical or programming background is not required.
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ISEM 565 - Business Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: ISEM 500
Description: Modern “electronically enabled” enterprises rely increasingly on knowledge that needs to be managed and processed through a variety of intelligent tools. This course covers business intelligence and knowledge management in modern enterprises and discusses how the decision support and expert systems tools can be used for effective decision making in organizations.
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ISEM 568 - Aligning Business Strategy with IT Strategy
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: ISEM 500
Description: This course discusses how the information technology (IT) strategy can be aligned with business strategy to compete and become successful. The focus is on the major elements of the business and IT strategic management models and their inter-relationships. Different alignment models such as the Henderson-Venkataraman model are discussed in detail through case studies.
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ISEM 570 - IT Quality Assurance
(0 semester hours)
Prerequisites: ISEM 500 or permission of the instructor
Description: The information technology product is central to most business systems. Quality of the product is represented by accuracy, reliability, repeatability and specific customer requirement standards. Various techniques to understand the quality control processes and quality assurance measures are demonstrated and industry standards and protocols are covered.
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ISEM 572 - Smart Enterprises and Strategic Intelligence
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: ISEM 565 or ANLY 500
Description: This course addresses advances in research, technologies, systems, and applications as related to “strategic intelligence.” Strategic intelligence (SI) refers to the intersection of Business Intelligence, Knowledge Management, and Competitive Intelligence for improving the strategic decision making in Smart Enterprises. Instead of intelligence on one topic area, smart enterprises need strategic intelligence that covers multiple topic areas. This course discusses methodologies, trends, challenges, and applications as related to knowledge management, intelligent systems, automated planning and scheduling systems, analytics, and Big Data.
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ISEM 574 - Block Chains and Bit Coins
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: Graduate Standing (ISEM 550 recommended)
Description: Blockchain technologies is believed to be a disruptive innovation that enables secure global business transactions. Blockchain was originally developed for the digital currency, Bitcoin, that is currently valued at more than 9 billion USD. Several new applications of blockchain “as a platform” are currently under investigation in several countries such as Canada, South Korea, Singapore, Japan, and Dubai. Some applications include but are not limited to cybercurrency, insurance, and food safety. In this course, the student will study the concepts of blockchain, the type of applications that this platform will enabled and why this “digital gold” is expected to be similar to the coming of Internet in the late 90s.
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ISEM 580 - Special Topics in ISEM
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course explores a topic or collection of topics of special interest that is timely and in response to critical or emerging topics in the broad field of information systems engineering and management.
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ISEM 581 - Directed Study
(variable semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course is designed for the student who demonstrates an interest in an area of study not offered or who wishes to pursue a discipline in greater depth than possible through existing courses. A learning contract between the student and instructor defines the responsibilities of the parties and specifies the learning objectives and standards for successful completion of the project. A calendar of meeting times and deadlines shall be a part of that contract.
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ISEM 699 - Applied Project in ISEM
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: GRAD 695 and permission of instructor
Description: This course allows the student to pursue an area of interest that is within the broad scope of ISEM. A faculty member will supervise this study.
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ISEM 700 - Smart Enterprises and Strategic Intelligence
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: Admission to ISEM Doctoral Program
Description: Smart Enterprises are the next generation of digital enterprises that heavily rely on artificial intelligence (AI) to deal with customers, suppliers/partners, government agencies and employees. This course highlights advances in research, technologies, systems, and applications as related to intelligent digital enterprises such as smart cities, smart towns, smart healthcare, smart islands, industry4.0, and automated planning environments. The emphasis is on “strategic intelligence” (SI) that refers to the intersection of Business Intelligence, Knowledge Management, and Competitive Intelligence for improving the strategic decision making in Smart Enterprises. Instead of intelligence on one sector, SI concentrates on intelligence that cuts across multiple sectors. The course uses case-based and project-based approaches for discussion and assignments, but the focus is on research directions in this broad area of work. The student is expected to produce a research paper as the final output of this course.
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ISEM 725 - Advanced Business Process Modelling and Intelligence
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: Admission to ISEM Doctoral Program
Description: In-depth coverage of current practical, conceptual, and theoretical techniques of process modeling, simulation, and intelligence. Primary emphasis is given to understanding and applying various modeling techniques and languages (such as BPEL), types of simulations (such as discrete event simulation), and to using various techniques and tools (such as PROM) to develop data-driven models/prescriptions of process models. All the foregoing will be considered within the context of the development of solutions to both practical and cutting-edge problems. The student conducts a focused literature review on some advanced aspect of the studied material and issues.
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ISEM 730 - Advanced Systems Engineering
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: Admission to ISEM Doctoral Program
Description: This course introduces the student to the discipline of “Large Scale Systems Engineering”. Also referred to as “Requirements Driven Development” as well as “Systems Engineering”, it represents a disciplined technical and management process by which abstract complex problem descriptions are successfully transformed into fully developed, tested and deployed systems. Discussed are the “art” and “science” of the Large-Scale Systems Engineering discipline. Evolution of Systems Engineering and Advances in Systems Science are discussed. Specialized concepts involved in developing human-engineered complex systems are reinforced primarily through student research and writings. This is a research-focused course that demands extensive student research and academic writing as well as advanced mathematical techniques such as optimization and stochastic processes.
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ISEM 760 - Advanced Topics in Operations Management
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: Admission to ISEM Doctoral Program
Description: This course discusses how Operations are designed in modern digital organizations and how managers can use Information Technology (IT) to support these operations. Business operations in modern organizations are defined based on business strategies. The main focus of this course is to learn a) how business strategies are designed and implemented, b) how business operations are defined and managed, and c) how IT is used to enable the business operations. Recent research and industry trends in the field of operations management are discussed in some detail. The course systematically guides the student to conduct a focused literature review on some advanced aspect of the studied material and produce a research paper. The student uses hands-on tools for practical insights.
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ISEM 770 - Advanced Topics in ISEM
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: Completion of 12 semester hours of Upper Level Courses in ISEM PhD
Description: This course discusses overall research and industry trends in intelligent digital enterprises, industry4.0, intelligent planning and scheduling systems, next generation of digital infrastructure, business models, systems engineering, and other extant areas of work such as artificial intelligence, big data and analytics. The exact topics discussed will change with time. The main focus is on guiding the student to emerging relevant trends and to expose the student to a repository of potential “Ph.D. hard” questions (i.e., the questions that require Ph.D. level research).
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ISEM 775 - Advanced Design Project
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: Completion of 12 credits in the Certificate Program
Description: This course goes beyond the master’s level capstone courses and concentrates on the design of complex intelligent systems in modern settings. Instead of behavioral research approaches, the emphasis is on design science approach, where artifacts are designed based on iterative prototyping, modeling, and simulation techniques. In addition to a written document that catalogs the investigation, a demonstration of the proposed design is required through gamifications and/or actual operational prototypes. A student who has developed a system design in ISEM capstone may implement or further enhance and enrich his/her design in this course.
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ISEM 780 - Doctoral Research Seminar I
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: Completion of doctoral coursework requirements; pass qualifying examination
Description: This course provides support to the doctoral student within their specific domains of research. Led by the faculty advisor for that domain, the course is designed to provide a forum where faculty and the student can come together to discuss, support, and share the experiences of working in research. Research topics in the broad area of information systems engineering and management are discussed. Topic areas may concentrate on industry sectors (e.g., health, education, manufacturing, transportation, energy, environment, agriculture and others), emerging digital technologies and their impacts on the digital enterprises, and/or latest developments in systems engineering principles such as planning, architectures, integration, engineering/re-engineering, and engineering management. Each topic area will be studied in-depth to educate the student in conducting independent research. May be repeated for credit.
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ISEM 781 - Doctoral Research Seminar II
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: ISEM 780 Doctoral Research Seminar I
Description: This seminar is a continuation of ISEM 780 Research Seminar I and provides continued support to the doctoral student within their specific domains of research. Led by the faculty advisor for that domain, the course is designed to provide a forum where faculty and the student can come together to discuss, support, and share the experiences of working in research. May be repeated for credit.
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ISEM 799 - Doctoral Studies (Thesis)
(6 semester hours)
Prerequisites: Completion of doctoral coursework requirements; pass qualifying and comprehensive examinations
Description: Advancement to candidacy is a prerequisite of this course. This is an individual study course for the doctoral student that culminates in a Ph.D. Thesis. Content to be determined by the student and the student’s Doctoral Committee. May be repeated for credit.
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Information Technology Project Management |
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ITPM 515 - Business and Requirements Analysis Fundamentals
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course is designed to help the student prepare for a career in management, building on their technical and professional background and education. The field of business analysis is a fast-growing profession that offers a global certification. Business analysis is a key function on a project team that promotes understanding of what the customers want the project team to build for them; it is essential to project success. Through the use of real life project examples, the student gains expertise in planning, eliciting, writing, and managing customer requirements for IT and other types of projects.
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ITPM 580 - Special Topics in IT Project Management
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course explores a topic of special interest that is timely and in response to a critical topic in the field of technology project management.
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Interactive Media |
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IMED 500 - Design Perspectives
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course will introduce the student to the design perspectives encountered most often in human-centered interaction design. Design perspectives are attitudes towards how to do design which reflect their political, social, and technological beliefs about design practice. Through readings and case studies, the student explores a variety of perspectives in the domain of digital interactive design. The student delves into the foundations of design practice through different standpoints, histories, frames of reference and interpretations of different views of the ‘best’ way to design.
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IMED 504 - Methods for Design Research
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course will introduce the student to the package of study design and research methods employed within human-centered interaction design. In this process-driven course, the lessons will be structured around design research methodology, execution, and reporting. The course will take place as a series of situation studios, in which the student engages their evolving design eye and research skills to research the people, processes, contexts, and temporalities of digital interaction opportunities. Through readings, discussions, and the exploration of examples, guidelines, and heuristics, the course engages the student in the ethical and entrepreneurial aspects of design research within design practice.
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IMED 510 - Human Sociotechnical Interactions
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course will introduce the student to the theories and perspectives of human social behavior that are employed most often in HCID. Drawing on canonical and new sociotechnical science literature, the course will present the student with overviews of theories of information, action, sociality, conflict, and interaction within traditional and digital environments. Through readings and examples, the course includes attention to sociotechnical theories around communities of practice, online communities, social media, and enterprise knowledge management. This seminar course offers the student a better understanding of the contexts and perspectives within which people interact with others, around and through offline, online, and hybrid environments.
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IMED 520 - Users and Populations
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course will introduce the student to the design-based theories and contexts of users and populations, as found in human-centered interaction design. The course will be structured around three design contexts: cohorts; environments; and capabilities. The course will take place as a series of case-based seminars. Through readings, discussions, and the exploration of examples and heuristics, the course draws the student’s attention to the need to develop their design eye for contextual integration of user and population theory within design practice.
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IMED 540 - Design Tools and Processes
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course offers the student the opportunity to work with a variety of tools and processes that support design practice. The course exposes the student to traditional and digital tools, templates, and techniques for design. Using an example project supplied by the professor, the course is run as a series of studios. After using tools and processes in each stage of the design process, the student reflects on the suitability and use case for each tool and reflect of their evolving sense of self as a designer. The course covers the tools, processes, and techniques necessary to professionalize the student’s design practice.
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IMED 570 - Design Patterns and Contexts
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course introduces the student to the contextual design of patterned interfaces in human-centered interaction design. The course is structured as a series of seminars around four design area: contexts; visuals; patterns; and actions. Taking the approach of goal-driven design, the student will engage in reading, discussing, experimenting, and presenting design rationales for design choices around traditional and new digital interfaces. The course builds on what the student learned in the other courses and intensifies the student’s development of their design eye for contextually sensitive interaction design. The student will be challenged to consider areas of conflict and divergence within design thinking. While employing their own evolving capacity for design, the student will learn to manage conflicts between goal orientations, contextual needs, and environmental challenges.
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IMED 680 - Special Topics
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: The in-program elective choice will vary each year, depending on needs and abilities of students, faculty, and external clients. Some co-teaching across the university’s technology programs is expected to occur. For example, as an HCID in-program elective, courses could be offered in Designing Publics (Entertainment; Education; Engagement; Art and Activism); or in Ubiquitous Computing (wearables; smart homes; Internet of Things; 30 printing); or in Audiovisual Design Theories and Productions (Live streaming video; studio video production; sound production); or in Collaborative Crisis Response Management (natural disasters; environmental accidents; tragic events).
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IMED 695 - Design Research Studio
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: Completion of all HCID Core Courses
Description: This course is a one-on-one student-focused research preparation studio. This course requires the student to conduct original research and document a design space within the domain of human-centered interaction design. The course is the first of two experiential learning classes for the completion of the HCID. The course will prepare the student for the GRAD699 portion of the degree, within which the student ideates, produce, and test a conceptual prototype that addresses the design problem identified through the research and analysis done in this studio course.
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LTMS 500 - Macro Instructional Design
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course focuses on the use of an instructional design process to improve learning outcomes, with an emphasis on the analysis components of instructional design that create a foundation for successful learning solutions. The course explores tools and techniques for analysis, design, development, delivery and evaluation and addresses strategies that can be enhanced by technology integration. The goal of the course is to establish a systematic process for designing instruction and explores trends and technology integration opportunities throughout the process.
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LTMS 501 - Active Learning Planning
(1 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course focuses on the research and evidence that supports the role of movement in learning, memory, attention and concentration. A course participant creates an active learning intervention plan for the school setting, which is reviewed by experts in the field. Upon completion, the student receives the Active Learning Specialist certificate. This course is delivered in an online, asynchronous format with new cohorts of students starting the online course each semester with a one-month rolling start date. Course completion takes approximately 30 hours over 5 to 10 weeks. Thirty (30) hours of asynchronous contact time equates to 15 hours of standard contact hours or 1 graduate semester hour. This course is intended for current teachers, pre service teachers, administrators, athletic coaches, nutrition experts, and parents serving on a school board.
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LTMS 503 - Raspberry Pi in the STEM Classroom
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: Uses of the Raspberry Pi in the STEM Classroom are explored. Topics include teaching the Linux operating system to students, uses of the various programming languages in the PI, including Scratch, Sonic Pi, and Python. An introduction to physical computing within several curricula in an integral part of the class. The student will be expected to purchase a Raspberry Pi 3B starter kit.
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LTMS 505 - Digital Security for Instructional Technology Specialist
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: If you are a certified Instructional Technology Specialist you need to be aware of a variety of cybersecurity issues that become more important day by day. This class will cover topics in the 5 areas of cybersecurity defined by NIST: Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond and Recover, as well as school specific security concerns.
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LTMS 507 - Implementing Google Tools in the Classroom
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This class explores the use of applications within the Google G Suite for education and Google Chromebooks in a school environment. Course topics include the use of the tools to foster individual creativity, collaboration, and presentation skills within a constructivist educational paradigm. This course is taught by Google certified educators and requirements for Google certification are presented.
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LTMS 509 - Implementing Microsoft Tools for Education
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This class explores the use of applications within the Microsoft Tools for Educator in a school environment. Course topics include the use of the tools within Office 365 to foster individual creativity, collaboration, and presentation skills within a constructivist educational paradigm, including the use of Skype as a collaboration tool in the classroom. This course is taught by Microsoft certified educators and requirements for Microsoft certification are presented.
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LTMS 510 - Learning Technologies and Solutions
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course presents an overview of multiple technology-based solutions to realize learning outcomes. Beyond a survey of learning software, the course challenges the student to think broadly about emerging technology trends that present opportunities. By establishing a systematic decision analysis process, the student is able to assess suitable technology tools for specific environments and learning needs. A broad survey of open source and proprietary solutions are explored, as well as emerging trends in learning technologies. Course topics are examined within a framework of a learning strategy and a learning architecture.
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LTMS 511 - Creating the Flipped Classroom
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course focuses on designing lessons, creating screencasts and assessing learning in a flipped classroom or blended learning classroom model. The student plans, organizes, develops, and administers screencasted lessons for distribution on a course management system (CMS) or website. Authoring tools are also introduced and utilized to produce eLearning modules with the embedded assessments. This course is for the teacher or business professional who wants to learn the basics of delivering instruction in a flipped classroom model.
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LTMS 514 - Media Selection, Design and Production
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course focuses on creating media for learning solutions. Selecting appropriate media to meet learning objectives are explored as the student creates graphics, illustrations, audio, video, and animations to support learning. Graphic design fundamentals are addressed, in addition to production skills like media compression and conversion. Industry leading media software and open source options are considered.
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LTMS 518 - eLearning Development
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course presents content creation software that can be used for eLearning. The student creates eLearning modules that focus on navigation, usability and compliance to content standards. Planning and asset management are also explored as elements of efficient eLearning development. Industry leading software and open source options are considered.
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LTMS 520 - Learning Evaluation and Assessment
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: LTMS 500
Description: This course focuses on measuring multi-modal learning and performance with an emphasis on the use of technology as an evaluation and assessment tool. Course evaluation and learner performance are both explored as formative and summative assessment, authentic assessment, subjective and objective assessment, criterion-referenced and norm-referenced assessment, formal and informal assessment, testing and evaluation standards, analytics and metrics, the importance of validity and reliability, and the use of technology in the evaluation and assessment process.
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LTMS 525 - Learning Theories and Instructional Strategies
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course is an in-depth exploration of learning theories including, but not limited to, behavioral modeling, cognitive processing, metacognition, motivation, social learning, constructivism and connectivism. Culture and learning, brain research and the integration of technology to support learning theories are also explored. Theories and practices are examined within the context of creating instructional strategies as part of learning design with a focus on technology-supported learning solutions.
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LTMS 530 - Managing Technology Resources
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: LTMS 510
Description: New technologies are changing instruction and placing new demands on technology professionals that support learning technologies. This course addresses the challenge of providing access to educational technologies while balancing security and resources in learning environments. The course establishes strategies for assessing, planning, implementing, supporting and governing learning technologies with a focus on maximizing the instructional value of technology investments.
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LTMS 531 - Designing Serious Games and Simulations
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: LTMS 500
Description: This course focuses on applying game and simulation design strategies to increase context, motivation, engagement and learning outcomes. Character development, narrative, user interface, game play, game balancing, principles of level design and feedback in games and simulations are applied as the student designs a game or simulation to achieve a learning goal. The differences and similarities between game and simulation concepts, genres and worlds are examined, in addition to game and simulation intricacies for specific groups and game production and management.
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LTMS 532 - Developing Serious Games and Simulations
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: LTMS 514 and LTMS 531
Description: This course presents tools and techniques for developing serious games and simulations. Programming and scripting languages, simulation systems, programming fundamentals, game architecture, navigation, usability, feedback, data management, artificial intelligence, media programming and developing for multiplayer environments are explored as the student develops the design from the “Designing Serious Games & Simulations” course. Game production and management with a focus on the game development phase are also discussed.
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LTMS 533 - 3-D Modeling and Design
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: LTMS 514
Description: This course develops skills in computer-generated 3D modeling and design with a focus on basic 3D concepts, animation concepts and physics, scene management, modeling, mesh, materials and mapping. A focus is given to lighting, physics, and particle emitters as part of object development and animation. 3D rendering options and preferences are also examined. A discussion of 3D production and management requirements is also explored.
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LTMS 534 - Development for Virtual Worlds
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: LTMS 531 and LTMS 533
Description: The course focuses on building engaging, interactive and collaborative experiences in a distributed virtual world environment. Building objects, advanced building techniques, object editing, texturing and lighting, clothing and accessories, animation, filming, scripting and terraforming are explored as virtual world development skills. User experience topics like performance lag, accessibility and interface design are addressed. Virtual world production and management requirements are also explored.
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LTMS 535 - Critical Issues in Biology Education
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: LTMS 500 and LTMS 510
Description: This course addresses topics in biology education that combine current priorities in science and the need of the society. Topics such as biological knowledge, scientific methods, and career awareness are covered. This course also surveys the biology education landscape to identify topics in K-12, postsecondary and professional biology education that are impacting interest and achievement in STEM education and how interactive learning experiences such as games and simulations can address the student motivation and cognition challenges for improved learning outcomes.
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LTMS 536 - Applied eHealth Communication
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: LTMS 500 and LTMS 525
Description: This course focuses on developing a foundational knowledge of theory-based methods in health communication and the application of those methods to creating health communication products that influence awareness, knowledge, attitude, and behavior within a target audience. The course examines successful case studies in health communication and the stages of health communication product development (audience assessment, product planning, development, testing, revision, and implementation) as they apply to eHealth Communication.
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LTMS 537 - Rapid eLearning
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: LTMS 500 , LTMS 514 and LTMS 518
Description: This course focuses on techniques for designing and developing learning solutions in a reduced time frame. The need to rapidly create learning solutions increases as information, expectations and requirements change quickly in a technology-based, global marketplace. Strategies for reducing the instructional design timeframe and reducing the need for development resources are explored.
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LTMS 538 - Critical Issues in Instructional Design
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: LTMS 500 and LTMS 510
Description: This course looks at the field of instructional design, including opportunities to advance the field and develop skills in areas of emerging need. The industry-related opportunities and challenges of instructional design commonalities and disparities in various learning environments are also explored.
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LTMS 539 - Using Virtual Worlds for Learning and Collaboration
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course focuses on promoting active learning, impacting learner engagement and improving learning outcomes through distributed learning in a virtual world environment. Concepts are explored throughout the course as the student explores and evaluates virtual world environments. The course promotes active learning solutions based on proven design and development trends and research-based practices for engagement, learning and collaboration using virtual worlds.
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LTMS 540 - The Instructional Designer as Entrepreneur
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: completion of 15 graduate-level credits
Description: This course focuses on the evolution of the profession of instructional designer from one customarily employed by a corporation to one where the instructional designer is most frequently an independent contractor. The focus is on the effect this has on the required skillset and mindset of the designer. The course explores tools and techniques for finding work, evaluating requests for proposals, writing proposals, meeting with selection teams, and building strategies that can be enhanced by technology integration. The goal of the course is to establish a systematic process for designing the workflows, processes, and skillsets needed to build an instructional design consultancy.
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LTMS 541 - Using Mobile Devices for Learning
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course focuses on promoting active learning, impacting learner engagement, improving access and improving learning outcomes through the use of mobile devices. As mobile devices become more abundant, their use as a learning tool is increasing. Mobile learning can increase engagement, enhance access, support differentiated instruction and provide alternate assessment opportunities. Mobile learning opportunities, design considerations, development tools and implementation challenges are explored.
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LTMS 542 - Classroom Technology
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: Interactive whiteboards, student response systems, mobile devices and other systems for supporting and extending classroom-based learning solutions are explored. Classroom technologies can be used to engage learners, enable formative assessment, capture the learning environment and promote higher level learning in today’s classroom. The student designs a learning solution delivered through the use of classroom technology. Open-source and industry leading hardware and software options are both considered.
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LTMS 543 - Interactive Media Management
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: Background in interactive media
Description: This course explores the management of interactive media in the modern industry environment. It is designed to give the student an understanding of the factors that influence the structures, policies, programming, and management practices of various interactive media projects. The objective is to integrate relevant social, organizational and political topics related to interactive media management and programming decisions. Topics include a management perspective on the practice of digital video production, including nonlinear editing, graphics creation, multi-channel audio mixing, and streaming video. Special attention is paid to the study of laws and regulations as they pertain to media operations and the internal and external codes that guide media behavior. Discussions include: media ownership and operation, including monopoly and competition, labor relations, industry trends and market relations.
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LTMS 544 - Critical Issues in Teaching Mathematics
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: LTMS 500 and LTMS 510
Description: This course explores the integration of learning technologies into a math curriculum. Emerging opportunities in learning technologies for active learning, applied math, data visualization, media solutions and assessment are investigated. Promoting math careers and supporting professional development through the use of learning technologies are also explored.
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LTMS 580 - Special Topics in LTMS
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course explores a topic of current interest in the field of learning technology.
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LTMS 598 - Critical Issues in Teaching Science
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: LTMS 500 and LTMS 510
Description: This course explores the integration of learning technologies into a science curriculum. Emerging opportunities in learning technologies for active learning, virtual labs, data visualization, media solutions and assessment are investigated. Promoting science careers and supporting professional development through the use of learning technologies are also explored.
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LTMS 599 - Critical Issues in Teaching Technology
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: LTMS 500 and LTMS 510
Description: This course explores the integration of learning technologies into a technology curriculum. Emerging opportunities in learning technologies for active learning, virtual computer labs, media solutions and assessment are investigated. Promoting technology careers and supporting professional development through the use of learning technologies are also explored.
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LTMS 600 - Implementing Web 2.0 in the Classroom
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course enables exploration and practice with “Web 2.0” learning technologies and investigates how the integration of these technologies in the classroom can impact teaching and classroom dynamics. A variety of tools for managing information, creating content and collaborating for learning are explored. Within a peer learning model, the student designs, implements and evaluates a classroom activity that incorporates one or more Web 2.0 tools.
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LTMS 602 - Technology Evaluation and Selection
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: LTMS 510
Description: Effectively evaluating and selecting the right technology solution (software, hardware, and services) for myriad complex situations is a necessary skill in the development and management of learning technology projects and initiatives. This course explores the request for proposal (RFP) process for evaluation and selection including evaluating the needs and internal processes of the organization along with writing an RFP. Keys to the successful implementation of new technologies and solutions are also explored.
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LTMS 603 - Engaging with Learning Activities, Games and Simulations
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course focuses on promoting active learning, impacting learning engagement and improving learning outcomes with technology-based activities, games and simulations. Concepts are applied throughout the course as the student designs engaging learning experiences using current techniques and technologies. The course promotes active learning solutions based on proven design and development trends and research-based practices in engagement, game and simulation concepts.
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LTMS 607 - Writing for Learning Solutions
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course addresses writing styles, formats and techniques for asynchronous learning solutions. Best practices for technical writing and writing for the web are explored. Storytelling as an instructional strategy is emphasized throughout the course and is examined as an important element for successful learning design.
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LTMS 608 - Course Management Systems
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course addresses the integral role that the course management system (CMS) plays in today’s classroom, online instruction, and blended learning environments. As systems advance and become more affordable, educators and learners are embracing the CMS as the hub of educational coordination and activity. The student creates a learning solution that uses a CMS to implement advanced pedagogical approaches to help the student achieve a higher level of learning. Open source and industry leading software options are both considered.
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LTMS 609 - Synchronous Facilitation
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: LTMS 500
Description: This course is an in-depth discovery of planning, producing and facilitating synchronous face-to-face and online communication and learning events. Classroom facilitation techniques are examined, in comparison and support of developing online facilitation skills. Creating audience engagement with effective content development, media and interactive elements in an online synchronous session are addressed. The producer’s role in facilitator and participant preparation, technology validation, logistics, in-session troubleshooting and post-session follow-up is also examined. Industry leading web conferencing and virtual classroom software and open source options are both considered.
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LTMS 610 - Learning Technologies Project
(3-6 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: The student creates and executes a detailed project plan to use as part of a real-world project that applies concepts and skills previously explored throughout the program. The student’s project is customized to a particular area of interest in learning technologies. This experiential course also provides an opportunity to reinforce and demonstrate the eight University competencies, i.e., critical thinking, communication, teamwork and collaboration, entrepreneurship, information literacy, ethical decision making, global awareness, and civic engagement.
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LTMS 611 - Extensible Languages for Development
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: LTMS 518
Description: This course addresses the need to extend visual authoring and editing tools with scripting and programming to achieve advanced features. Proprietary languages are used along with program, platform and device independent languages to create dynamic data display and advanced interactions. Web-based, Windows OS and mobile device environments are considered.
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LTMS 612 - Integrating Learning Technologies with Human Resource Functions
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: LTMS 500 and LTMS 510
Description: This course investigates the benefits of and opportunities for integrating learning technologies into talent management activities like hiring, onboarding, knowledge management and competency-based employee evaluation and development. Compliance throughout the organization and training employees to utilize human resource tools are explored, as will integrating learning technologies with human resource information systems (HRIS) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) tools.
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LTMS 613 - Data Protection in Learning Solutions
(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: LTMS 500 and LTMS 510
Description: This course explores general privacy and security needs to ensure data protection in learning solutions in addition to specific requirements based on federal, state and industry regulations. Records and information management, export compliance and safe harbor/international trade agreements are also considered in the context of a global audience. Security and privacy strategies for media, access and reporting are examined, as well as developing contingency plans for security and privacy breaches.
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