Who we are   We are an organization of colleagues helping colleagues.  We draw together people who teach, research, and use information technologies to inform clients (regardless of academic discipline) to share their knowledge with others. Our mission has components both of production and retroduction.  All our publications are available free online to everyone regardless of membership status.  Our publications are also available in print at very reasonable prices.  We are not a publishing company disguised as a professional organization nor are we a clique of insiders.

What we do - our Productions

Journals
Informing Science:
the International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline

Journal of Information Technology Education


Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology Journal

Interdisciplinary Journal of
Knowledge and Learning Objects


Interdisciplinary Journal of
Information, Knowledge, and Management

International Journal of Doctoral Studies


Journal of Information,
Information Technology, and Organizations

Informing Faculty:
An International Journal of Higher Education Discussion Cases


Search the full text of our books

Books are available online without charge at http://URLtea/s1h and in print from Amazon.com. They are available to members of the Informing Science Institute at highly discounted prices at Informing Science Press Member Site and to non-members at discount prices at Informing Science Press Commercial Site.

Beneath the Surface: The Experience of Learning about Information Systems. Chris Cope

Comprehensive Object-Oriented Learning: The Learner's Perspective. Annita Fjuk, Amela Karahasanović, and Jens Kaasbøll

Creating Instructional Multimedia Solutions: Practical Guidelines for the Real World. Peter Fenrich

The Information Universe: Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Vol. 3. Eli Cohen, ed.

 Learning Objects: Standards, Metadata, Repositories, & LCMS.  Keith Harman & Alex Koohang, ed.

Learning Objects: Theory, Praxis, Issues, and Trends. Alex Koohang & Keith Harman, ed.

Learning Objects and Instructional Design.
Alex Koohang & Keith Harman, ed.

Learning Objects: Appl., Implications, & Future Directions. Keith Harman & Alex Koohang, ed

Transforming IT Education: Promoting a Culture of Excellence. Christine Bruce, et al., ed.

and more!

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Conferences and Proceedings
Informing Science + Information Technology Education Joint
Conference (InSITE) Bulgaria June 2008

Computer Science + IT Education conference (CSITEd), Mauritius, November 2007

Proceedings and papers from all prior conferences 

Repositories
Teach IS: links to free resources for those who teach IS
(the global IS education site)

Informing Science Learning Objects Repository

How we work - Retroduction and Mentoring    While we accept for publication only about 10% of manuscripts submitted, authors of all submitted manuscripts find the review process helpful for their career.  This is because our editors, who are senior faculty, spend time helping authors learn how to make their submission even better.  Our reviewers include those who have successfully been published in our journals or elsewhere.  In this way, they (and we) use elements of our product to develop our production.  We provide authors with constructive feedback garnered as the outcome of this retroduction process.


Informing Science Institute

The Informing Science Institute believes in sharing, not hoarding, knowledge. The full text of all journals and conference proceedings and links to teaching resources are provided online free of charge where they can be read and cited by colleagues around the world.

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Alex Koohang, Fellow, Informing Science Institute
Linda Knight, Fellow, Informing Science Institute
Zbigniew Gackowski, Honorary Fellow, Informing Science Institute

Editors-in-Chief
Alex Koohang
Bob Travica
Grandon Gill
Linda Knight
Scott J. Lloyd
Kathy Lynch
Yair Levy
           

Individual Sponsors
Susan Nash

Director
Azad Ali
Kevin Floyd
Michael Jones

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