Executive SummaryIn this paper, a new academic model that responds to the challenges of a modern society such as the UAE is proposed. This academic model is hybrid as it is outcome driven and also uses the traditional grade point average (GPA). The learning outcomes are used at all stages of the students' academic life. These outcomes are derived from the university's vision of the knowledge and skills that students need to acquire in order to be life-long learners. The framework that constitutes the academic model is composed of the following components: course embedded and higher-order learning outcomes; students and faculty equipped with laptops and campus wide networked classrooms; a center for teaching and learning assessment; and learning communities. These learning communities are responsible for reviewing and modifying the Academic Program Model, and include members from both inside and outside the university. In the final stage of their education, students develop electronic portfolios (e-portfolios) to demo nstrate their achievements. This paper shows how technology can be used to facilitate the learning and assessment processes and how assessment is used to make the learning outcomes component work effectively. It also describes how learning outcomes are used in the development of an information systems curriculum.

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Many governments worldwide are restructuring their business practices to improve their performances. To help describe and understand the process of restructuring, modeling techniques are used at different levels of modeling abstraction. This paper presents a new approach to the modeling of e-government business processes. It is based on two existing modeling techniques: Business Process Mapping (BPMapping) and UN/CEFACT Modeling Methodology (UMM). The BPMapping technique provides an overall graphical representation of an organization depicting all different types of business processes, their inputs, outputs, and the environment in which the organization operates. The UMM methodology with its different business views gives details on collaborations and interactions of business processes. Combining BPMapping with UMM leads to a very expressive modeling approach which can provide artifact details at the higher levels of modeling abstraction and which also shows deployment strategies of the business processes. To illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, it is applied to the modeling of the Record Integrated Management business process at Quebec Government.

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