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General Comments: In the executive summary (page vi, lines 13-24) and Section 4 Motivation for Updating IS 2002 (page 6 lines 16-40), the committee correctly noted substantial changes in 'technology and industry practices'. Great job!

However, it is suggested that the 'IS 2009 Curriculum Guidelines' make significant note a similar substantial development in the development and administration of programs in higher education: the increased need for academic programs to demonstrate accountability through the assessment of educational outcomes and through the adoption of curriculum management processes based on the principles of continuous improvement.

Academic program accountability and assessment is a global phenomena and a topic of particularly important in the IS discipline. In the US, these issues came to the forefront with the [Spellings Report (2006)] see: http://www.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/hiedfuture/reports/pre-pub-report.pdf and continued with the creation of organizations such as the Voluntary System of Accountability Program (see:http://www.voluntarysystem.org/index.cfm?page=homepage), and increased emphasis on 'Assurance of Learning' through accreditation bodies such as AACSB (see: http://www.aacsb.edu/resource_centers/assessment/overview-process.asp), ABET/CSAB (see: http://www.abet.org/assessment.shtml), and regional accreditation bodies (see: http://www.sacscoc.org/links.asp)

[edit] Are new sections needed? Is the overall structure meaningful?

Here you can comment on the overall structure of the site (and thus, the curriculum). Is something essential missing at this level? Does the structure make sense? --Heikki Topi