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.
[New! Two new courses open for September 1, 2010. COMP 409 - Mobile Computing and Commerce and COMP 486 - Mobile and Internet Game Development.]
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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Advanced Education and Technology has approved our proposal to align our program nomenclature with other Alberta post-secondary institutions by changing the name of the existing Master of Science in Information Systems to Master of Science with a specialization in Information Systems effective July 1, 2010. Students who have been admitted into the program effective September 1, 2010 and later will have the new name on their transcript when they graduate from the program.
If you have any questions please email mscis@athabascau.ca.
[Published: Tues, 31 August 2010 12:01:00 MDT]
NSERC 2010 Undergraduate Student - Research Award
Dr. Oscar Lin of the School of Computing and Information Systems is accepting applications for the following projects. Applications must be received by mail to Dr Oscar Lin at oscarl@athabascau.ca (phone: 1-866-539-8664) no later than April 6, 2010
[Published: Fri, 16 March 2010 12:01:00 MDT]
Dr. Qing Tan Appointed to Assistant Professor Level
We are very pleased to announce that Dr. Qing Tan has been appointed to
the Assistant Professor level.
[Published: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:01:00 MDT]
Dr. Dragan Gasevic Promoted to Associate Professor
We are very pleased to announce that Dr. Dragan Gasevic has been promoted to the Associate Professor level.
[Published: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 15:54:00 MDT]
Funded research projects available for BSc CIS and MSc IS students of Athabasca University
Funded research projects are available for BSc CIS (COMP 495), and Masters
Project (COMP 697-699) / Thesis (COMP 676-680) under the iCORE research
program.
[Published: Tues, 1 Dec 2009 7:35:00 MDT]
Call for participation: Undergraduate Capstone Open Source Projects
Since September 2008, undergraduates from several universities in Canada
and the US have been taking part in joint capstone projects in order to
learn first-hand what distributed development is like. Each student
registers in a project course at his or her home institution; students are
then put in teams of 4-6 that span several schools to get some hands-on
experience with the working practices used in distributed teams.
[Published: Tues, 1 Dec 2009 7:30:00 MDT]
SCIS Sadly Announces Death of SCIS Professor, Dr. Peter Holt
It is with great sadness that we announce the tragic death of our
long-term SCIS professor, Dr. Peter Holt in a motor vehicle accident on
Saturday, Nov 21, 2009. He will be greatly missed by his colleagues in the
School of Computing and Information Systems, as well as the entire
university. We extend our condolences to Pete's family and his many
friends. Students being tutored by Dr. Holt will be notified of
alternative arrangements for their courses.
[Published: Mon, 24 Nov 2009 10:30:00 MDT]
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]
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