Open Sourcing the Pedagogy to Activate the Learning Process

Information systems graduates increasingly need to understand the collaborative, technology-driven practices inspired by open source software development that are fundamentally changing today's workplace. To meet this challenge, instructors must bring open source principles and technologies to active learning experiences. In this paper, the authors describe how nineteen undergraduates in a web development and design course at a Midwest university worked collaboratively with leading open-source software provider, Red Hat, to revamp the Teaching Open Source website. Accommodating this semester-length project required making significant revisions to course structure, instructional strategy, and assessments. The authors also describe the challenges of integrating these practices into the classroom and conclude with project reflections, including cautions and suggestions for instructors considering similar initiatives to move away from the “instructor as expert” paradigm to “meritocracy rule” thereby enabling students to make decisions with impacts beyond the classroom.

Accelerated launch of video visits in ambulatory neurology during COVID-19

The SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic has rapidly moved telemedicine from discretionary to necessary. Here, we describe how the Stanford Neurology Department (1) rapidly adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in over 1,000 video visits within 4 weeks, and (2) accelerated an existing quality improvement plan of a tiered roll out of video visits for ambulatory neurology to a full-scale roll out. Key issues we encountered and addressed were related to equipment/software, provider engagement, workflow/triage, and training. On reflection, the key drivers of our success were provider engagement and dedicated support from a physician champion, who plays a critical role understanding stakeholder needs. Before COVID-19, physician interest in telemedicine was mixed. However, in response to county and state stay-at-home orders related to COVID-19, physician engagement changed completely; all providers wanted to convert a majority of visits to video visits as quickly as possible. Rapid deployment of neurology video visits across all its subspecialties is feasible. Our experience and lessons learned can facilitate broader utilization, acceptance, and normalization of video visits for neurology patients in the present as well as the much anticipated postpandemic era.

Open Sourcing the Pedagogy to Activate the Learning Process

Information systems graduates increasingly need to understand the collaborative, technology-driven practices inspired by open source software development that are fundamentally changing today's workplace. To meet this challenge, instructors must bring open source principles and technologies to active learning experiences. In this paper, the authors describe how nineteen undergraduates in a web development and design course at a Midwest university worked collaboratively with leading open-source software provider, Red Hat, to revamp the Teaching Open Source website. Accommodating this semester-length project required making significant revisions to course structure, instructional strategy, and assessments. The authors also describe the challenges of integrating these practices into the classroom and conclude with project reflections, including cautions and suggestions for instructors considering similar initiatives to move away from the “instructor as expert” paradigm to “meritocracy rule” thereby enabling students to make decisions with impacts beyond the classroom.

Consideraciones contractuales del outsourcing, para el desarrollo de Software

Software Outsourcing has become a solution for organizations due to different reasons that companies consider to get some benefit from doing any business process. After evaluating what those benefits and the decision to resort to outsourcing, the company considers an outsourcing contract and becomes a client company. The contents of the outsourcing contract is based on factors that companies consider to hire an outsourcing provider for software development. Based on the significant investment in recruiting software provider for businesses in Mexico, performed a literature review to identify key variables that, in principle, influence the hiring of a vendor whose business is software development.Key words: information technologies, outsourcing, outsourcing contract, software development.Resumen. El Outsourcing de Software se ha convertido en una solución para lasorganizaciones, debido a diferentes motivos que las empresas consideran para obtener ciertos beneficios al realizar algún proceso de su negocio. Después de evaluar cuales son esos beneficios y se toma la decisión de recurrir al Outsourcing, la empresa considera un contrato de Outsourcing y pasa a ser una empresa cliente. El contenido del contrato de Outsourcing, está basado en factores que las empresas consideran para contratar a un proveedor de Outsourcing para el desarrollo de Software. Partiendo de la importanteinversión en la contratación de proveedores de Software por las empresas en México, se realiza una revisión de literatura para identificar las principales variables que, en principio, influyen en la contratación de un proveedor, cuya actividad es el desarrollo de software.Palabras clave: contrato de outsourcing, desarrollo de software, outsourcing, tecnologías de información.

Deskera is a Truly Make in India ERP Software Product Company Developed and Managed by a Group of IITians

Deskera is a truly make in India ERP Software product company developed and managed by a group of IITians. It is one of the fastest growing ERP business software provider in Asia Pacific. Deskera was recognized as the #1 Integrated Business Applications as a Service (SaaS) provider in the South East Asian market by Frost & Sullivan. Deskera is developed in India at Pune based development Centre – where an expert team of developers and business analysts ensure that world class cloud software is developed, managed and deployed for the entire South East Asian market.

An Overview of SAP Technology

This chapter commences with a brief description of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), follows by a description of SAP, the largest enterprise software provider in the world. The timeline of activities since its inception in 1972 are summarized in a table. SAP’s flagship software program, the R/3 system, is portrayed in more detail. The capabilities of the R/3 system, the three-tier client/server technology it employs, its hardware and software, and several problems associated with its implementation and use are discussed. The two R/3 implementation tools – namely, the Accelerated SAP and the Ready to Run systems – are also described.