| GIS Education at UCOL - From the Teacher Perspective 9 | Erzsebet Bekesi |  |
| Teaching BA100 (Business Applications) at Taranaki Polytechnic: Using the Technology .17 | Leonie Bridgeman |  |
| Students Experience the Theory: Taranaki Polytechnic's IS301 Project Life Cycle. .21 | Noel Bridgeman |  |
| The Competitive Model: Should We Really all be Aspiring to be Distance Educators? .25 | Noel Bridgeman |  |
| Aberrant Behaviour 29 | Peter Brook, Samuel Mann, Angela Virtue |  |
| Bootstrapping a Research Culture: Lessons from the BInfotech Degree at CIT. .37 | Brian Brown |  |
| Concepts and Concept Mapping: Representing states and progression in a novice programmers understanding and abilities. . 41 | Chris Burrell |  |
| Persistent Object Storage in the File System: How it works and its use as a database teaching tool .51 | Paul Charsley |  |
| Towards a Multi-Language Teaching Model of IS 55 | Ying Chen, Graeme Faulkner |  |
| Using IT for Active Student Feedback in the Learning Environment 61 | Tony Clear |
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| Computer-Aided Learning of Project Planning Within a Constructivist Framework . 69 | Barbara Crump, Craig Godley |  |
| Optimising the Delivery of Programming Units on Degree Courses . 79 | Simon Dacey, David McCurdy |  |
| Remote Remedies:Challenges When Teaching On-Line 85 | Ross Dewstow, Mae McSporran, Stuart Young |  |
| Use of Embedded Applications in Automatic Loop Tuning 93 | Andy Doonan, Chris Cox |  |
| The Music Notation Toolkit: A Study in Object-Oriented Development 99 | Andrew Eales |  |
| Taonga On Line: Managing and Preserving Culture in a Digital Age 107 | Trish Evans, Kevin Wilkinson |  |
| Helping Us Teach - Who do We Select for our Degree Programme? 115 | Bruce Ferguson |  |
| Business Skills: Exploring the perceptions of IT students, academics and industry 121 | Glennis Goodwill |  |
| On-line Teaching Using an Electronic Forum in Distance Education. 127 | John S. Green, Craig G. Eves |  |
| Being Positive About Negative Numbers: How to Win Compliments When Teaching 2's Complements 133 | Gordon Grimsey |  |
| Helping Cheats Prosper 139 | Dan Hawthorn |  |
| Testing : Comparison Between What is Taught and What is Used in Industry 147 | Peter Henry |  |
| The PASS Project - Identifying Parameters Affecting Student Success 151 | Donald Joyce |  |
| Exploring the Impact of Information Technology on Society 155 | Donald Joyce |  |
| Applying Soft Systems Methodology for User-Centred Design 159 | Diana Kassabova, Rachel Trounson |  |
| Database Design and the Reality of Normalisation 167 | Dave Kennedy |  |
| 80% of What ? _ A Preliminary Investigation of Tutors Understanding of the 80% Pass Mark for DipBC Modules. 173 | Dave Kennedy, Janne Ross |  |
| Quality Assurance: How Much is Needed? 179 | Cary Laxer, Alison Young |  |
| ONWARD and UPWARD A Review of the Bachelor of Information Technology at CIT 183 | Gerard Lovell |  |
| INFORMATION WARFARE and its impact on the Information Technology Industry in New Zealand 191 | Brian Main |  |
| Degrees of Information Technology in New Zealand Vocational Institutions 199 | Samuel Mann, Keith Cowan |  |
| A Language Model Based Optical Character Recogniser (OCR) for Reading Incidental Text 207 | Malcolm McQueen, Samuel Mann |  |
| What the Students Learn: learning through empowerment 213 | Samuel Mann, Nell Buissink-Smith |  |
| Information Systems Research Maturity: UCOL as a Case Study 221 | David McCurdy |  |
| Action and Emancipation: The Flexible Assessment Paradigm 227 | David McCurdy |  |
| Bridging the Gap Between Technology and Information Systems: encapsulating the design and delivery of the unit Hardware Integration at degree level 235 | David McCurdy |  |
| Security on a Linux Box: - a story of problems with hacking 239 | Malcolm McQueen |  |
| Course Web: A Report On Converting Course Notes To Web Pages 247 | Matt Melchert |  |
| Moderation as a Tool for Continuous Improvement 255 | Peter Miller |  |
| Third Year Industry Projects: Reaching For Reality 261 | Mike Moller |  |
| A Pilot Study of a Methodology for Graduate Outcome Survey 267 | Linda Neilson |  |
| Assessment: Central to Learning 273 | Beryl Plimmer |  |
| A Case Study of Portfolio Assessment in a Computer Programming Course 279 | Beryl Plimmer |  |
| Social Considerations in Distance and Virtual Education 285 | Christopher Rafferty, David McCurdy, Graeme Foster |  |
| Help Desk: Providing Students With Real-life Experiences 289 | Garry Roberton, Robin Holdsworth |  |
| Aptitude Testing as a Predictor of Success: The Christchurch Experience 297 | Janne Ross |  |
| Developing a New Course for the Software Development Pathway on the AUT Bachelor of Applied Science Programme 303 | Nurul Sarkar, Tony Clear |  |
| Hardware Basics: An Alternative Assessment Approach 311 | Ranjana Shukla, Alison Young |  |
| A Bulletin Board for Increased Communication and Student Involvement 315 | David Skelton, Owen Giles |  |
| Real World "Messes": Possibilities for Teaching IT through a Soft Systems viewpoint. 321 | David Skelton |  |
| "Have-nets" and "Have-nots" - What Determines Internet Access in New Zealand? 331 | Michael Smythe |  |
| Delivering New Curricula: A Case Study of delivering the new ICBC Curriculum in place of the Unit Standards based ICC Course. 335 | Sarah Snell, Rachel Conley |  |
| Promoting Student Interaction in a Flexible Delivery Environment 339 | Anne Steele |  |
| Teaching Software Engineering in a Practical Way 345 | Ken Surendran, Frank H. Young |  |
| Success Factors of Student Projects from the Hosts' Perspective 351 | Robert Sutcliffe, Graeme Kuypers |  |
| An Achievable Computing Solution for Schools 359 | Robert Sutcliffe, Graeme Kuypers |  |
| Information Systems Development Practice in New Zealand 367 | Hazel Taylor |  |
| Multipoint Desktop Videoconferencing: technology and implementation for New Zealand business and education 373 |
Carole L. Teixeira |  |
| An Argument for the Information Systems Educators' Preferred Model of Internet-based Business Simulations 381 | Irene Toki |  |
| The Effects of Business Simulations on Teaching and Learning in IS Education: a case study of experiential learning. 389 | Irene Toki, Catherine Snell-Siddle |  |
| Communication With Students From Other Cultures 395 | G.W.Tongariro |  |
| Designing Web Pages for Producing Electronic and Paper Based Teaching Material 399 | Michael Verhaart |  |
| Workplace Assessment - Balancing the Needs of Student and Organisation 411 | Malcolm Wieck |  |
| Web Design Techniques using Delphi 419 | Boris Bacic |  |
| Help Desk: The Who, Why, What, When and Where of Training a Technology User | Deirdre Billings |  |
| The Bionic Baby Grows Up 421 | Peter Brook, Samuel Mann, Greg Trounson |  |
| Electric Fence Demonstration 422 | Peter Brook, Samuel Mann, Paul Davies |  |
| The Poetic Computer 423 | Peter Brook, Andrew Sewell, John Dickson |  |
| Applied Research in Project Management Subject Teaching 424 | Dobrila Damjanovic-Zivic |  |
| Role Play on Interviewing leads to Teaching Social Skills 425 | Shirley Elliot |  |
| Who Said You Can't Teach an Old Dog New Tricks 426 | Kay Fenton, Pam Malcolm |  |
| Data Mining On Distributed Assessment System 427 | T.T. Goh, Kwan, E.E. |  |
| Quotes for Every Occasion (module!) 428 | Peter Henry |  |
| Local Search Engines for Local Queries 429 | Leo Homes |  |
| A Model for Assessing the Impact of Electronic Commerce On Businesses in New Zealand óA Blend of Multiple Criteria and Structural Equation Modelling Approach 430 | Jie Lu, Su Tang, Gerry McCullough |  |
| Perceptions of Computers: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 431 | Donald Joyce, Carolyn Nodder, Mark Northover, Johannes Sprigode |  |
| Patterns of Success: Who Does Best? 432 | Donald Joyce, Sandra Knight, Sam Kolahi, Ranjana Shukla |  |
| Changes in the Level of Internet Use by UNITEC Computing Students 433 | Stuart Young , Mae McSporran, Ross Dewstow |  |
| A Web-based Infrastructure Supporting Research at Otago Polytechnic 434 | Samuel Mann, Graham MacGregor |  |
| Internet delivery of courses to remote locations 435 | Samuel Mann, Peter Brook |  |
| Network Security 436 | Hira Sathu, Caroline King |  |
| Scheduling of Polytechnic Timetables by Constraint Logic Programming, Genetic Algorithms and a Visual Timetabling Tool. 437 | Si-Eng Ling |  |
| Academic Staff Workload Models 438 | Alison Young, Phil Bretherton |  |
| Industry Certification: Does it have any place in our established programmes? 439 | David Weir, Ricky Watson |  |