Best Papers

The Journal of Information Systems Education (JISE) awards up to three annual awards: Best Paper, Best Paper Finalist, and Best Paper Honorable Mention.

The Best Paper award will signify the most outstanding manuscript of the published volume. The Best Paper Finalist award and the Best Paper Honorable Mention award will signify the two runners-up to the most outstanding manuscript. Every manuscript published in the volume will be eligible for these awards. Deliberation will occur in late winter and early spring with the winners announced during the spring. The author(s) of the Best Paper will receive a plaque as well as one complimentary registration to the next EDSIGCON. The author(s) of the Best Paper Finalist and Best Paper Honorable Mention awards will receive a plaque.

The awards will be presented at the following EDSIGCON in the fall.

Questions should be addressed to the Editor at editor@jise.org.

Previous Winners

2021 (Volume 32)

• Best Paper: "Incorporating Big Data Tools for Social Media Analytics in a Business Analytics Course" by Amir H. Zadeh, Hamed M. Zolbanin, and Ramesh Sharda
• Best Paper Finalist: "When Students Are Players: Toward a Theory of Student-Centric Edu-Gamification Systems" by Connie S. Barber
• Best Paper Honorable Mention: "Teaching Tip: A Teaching Module of No-Code Business App Development" by Shouhong Wang and Hai Wang

2020 (Volume 31)

• Best Paper: "An Agile Framework for Teaching with Scrum in the IT Project Management Classroom" by Daniel E. Rush and Amy J. Connolly
• Best Paper Finalist: "Constructive Use of Errors in Teaching the UML Class Diagram in an IS Engineering Course" by Ronit Shmallo and Tammar Shrot
• Best Paper Honorable Mention: "Teaching Tip: The Development of a Red Teaming Service-Learning Course" by Jacob A. Young

2019 (Volume 30)

• Best Paper: "Scaffolding Case Analysis Writing: A Collaboration between Information Systems and Writing Faculty" by Silvia Pessoa, Maria Pia Gomez-Laich, Divakaran Liginlal, and Thomas D. Mitchell
• Best Paper Finalist: "How Does Competition Help Future Learning in Serious Games? An Exploratory Study in Learning Search Engine Optimization" by Philip T. Y. Lee, Richard W. C. Lui, and Michael Chau
• Best Paper Honorable Mention: "Teaching Tip: Implementing Scrum Wholesale in the Classroom" by Corey Baham

2018 (Volume 29)

• Best Paper: "Scrum-Based Learning Environment: Fostering Self-Regulated Learning" by Tanya Linden
• Best Paper Finalist: "Teaching Tip: Gaining Real-World Experience in Information Security: A Roadmap for a Service-Learning Course" by Janine L. Spears
• Best Paper Honorable Mention: "Fostering Cooperative Learning with Scrum in a Semi-Capstone Systems Analysis and Design Course" by Alejandra J. Magana, Ying Ying Seah, and Paul Thomas

2017 (Volumes 27 and 28)

• Best Paper: "Approaches to Incorporating IT Entrepreneurship into the Information Systems Curriculum" by Christopher G. Jones and David Liu
• Best Paper Finalist: "Exploring Reflective Means to Handle Plagiarism" by Nikunj Dalal
• Best Paper Honorable Mention: "IS Programs Responding to Industry Demands for Data Scientists: A Comparison between 2011-2016" by Robert J. Mills, Katherine M. Chudoba, and David H. Olsen

Selection Criteria

The following criteria will be used for award selection:

• Contribution to IS pedagogy theory
• Contribution to practice in the IS classroom
• Uniqueness/originality of ideas
• Quality of writing

Selection Process

The following process will be used for award selection:

• Each Senior Editor will nominate three manuscripts.
• Each nominated manuscript will be sent to two Associate Editors and one other Senior Editor (who did not nominate the manuscript and wasn't a part of the review process) to rank based on the selection criteria.
• The top three ranked manuscripts will be given a final ranking by the Editor.