Renewal of Classics: Database Technology for all Business Majors

ABSTRACT

Information system (IS) programs are facing two challenges: (a) to prepare the next generation of business professionals for the big data era; (b) to increase the enrollments in IS courses in the business programs. This paper presents a case of redesign of the database course for all business majors to meet these two challenges. It explains the motivation of redesign, the major consideration of redesign, and the implementation of redesign of this course. Our preliminary assessment of the redesigned course has indicated that the database technology course can be interesting to all business majors.

Keywords:

• Big data
• database technology
• IS curriculum
• course redesign

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The comments of two anonymous reviewers have contributed significantly to the revision of the article.