IntroLikes

IntroLikes - Introduction to Living In the Knowledge Society (LIKES) - Spring 2009

CS/BIT/ACIS 1614

CRN 17527(CS), 17528(ACIS), and 17529(BIT); 1:25-2:15pm on Mondays in Torg 1040, final 3:25-5:25 on 12 May

See detailed course materials in VT's course site Scholar (http://scholar.vt.edu)

Required Textbooks:

• Free online book, as part of the Global Text Project (http://globaltext.org/):
  • Available at http://docs.globaltext.terry.uga.edu:8095/anonymous/webdav/Information%20Systems/Information%20Systems.pdf
  • Information Systems, by Richard T. Watson (ed.), 2007, 250 pages
• Trends and strategies in globalization of information technologies:
  • The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Paperback), by Thomas L. Friedman, 2007, 672 pages
  • http://www.amazon.com/World-Flat-3-0-History-Twenty-first/dp/0312425074/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211769931&sr=1-1
• Case study reference work:
  • Problem Solving Cases with Microsoft Access and Excel, by Joseph Brady and Ellen Monk, 2008, 216 pages
  • http://www.amazon.com/Problem-Solving-Cases-Microsoft-Access/dp/1423902130/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211772855&sr=1-1

Home page of national project about LIKES: http://www.livingknowledgesociety.org/

Home page of VT part of national project about LIKES: http://www.livingknowledgesociety.org/vt/students