Abstract:
The paper provides a framework for teaching about electronic commerce in
business curricula. It emphasizes alignment of technology to business and uses a
case study based on a design process to demonstrate such alignment. The paper
describes web based teaching methods for doing so with the eventual goal of
research to personalize learning to learner needs. It suggests a competency driven
approach that provides choice for learners to follow different learning paths and
bases this path on a metamodel of knowledge, in this case electronic commerce.
The metamodel characterizes knowledge into learning about the technologies,
learning about the benefits of the technologies to business processes, and uses a
design process as the underlying framework to align technologies to business
strategy.
