Exploratory Investigation of Potential Signature Pe dagogies in the Information Systems Discipline

This study was an initial investigation on the kind s of signature pedagogies employed in the Information Systems discipline. It attempted to identify the most frequently used instructional strategies to te ach in the information systems discipline. This study employed an explorat ory study design, through a U.S. national survey. A link to a web-bas ed survey was sent by email to all information systems faculty members who were listed in the Association of Information Systems membership directory on the web, filtered only to those faculty members in the Unite d States. This study managed to secure 695 valid responses obtained from 2,835 eligible participants (24.4% response rate). The data were a nalyzed with descriptive statistics and factors analysis to group the instru ctional strategies into similar groups. The results show that lecture-based instruc tional strategies remain the dominant in the information systems discipline, with over 66% participants identified lecture as the most frequen tly used strategy when teaching in the classroom. Two out of six groups id entified by Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) method had higher means in the frequency of use, the project-based strategies and the highly-structured active learning strategies.