Staff profile

Dr Chris J Cope

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering

School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering

Business Building, B1.14, Bendigo

 

Qualifications

BSc Hons UMELB., GradDipCommDataProc FIT., DipEd MSC, MEd UTAS., PhD La Trobe

Area of study

Information Systems
Information Technology

Research interests

Databases and information system

- Lived experience of IS developers; IS education; Phenomenography

Teaching units

CSE1PE Programming Environment

BUS1MIS Management Information Systems

CSE1IS Information Systems

CSE2M Multimedia Authoring

Recent publications

Davey, B. & Cope, C. (2009). Consultants' Experience of Requirements Elicitation Conversations - An Empirical Model. 17th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS2009, Verona, Italy, 8-10 June.

Cope, C.J. & Staehr, L. (2008). Improving teaching and learning about a threshold concept in the IS discipline. Informing Science, 11, 349-364.

Davey, B. & Cope, C. (2008). Requirements Elicitation. What's Missing? Journal of Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology (IISIT), 5, 543-551.

Fowler, J., Horan, P. & Cope, C. (2007). How an “Imperative” IS Development was Saved from a Failing Course of Action – A Case Study, Journal of Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology (IISIT), 4, 395-406.

Cope, C.J. (2006). Beneath the Surface: The Experience of Learning about Information Systems, Santa Rosa, CA: Informing Science Press.

Cope, C.J. & Prosser, M. (2005). Identifying didactic knowledge: An empirical study of the educationally critical aspects of learning about information systems. Higher Education, 49, 3, 345-372.

Cope, C.J.& Staehr, L. (2005). Improving students' learning approaches through intervention in an information systems learning environment. Studies in Higher Education, 30, 2, 181-198.

Cope, C.J. (2004). Ensuring validity and reliability in phenomenographic research using the analytical framework of a structure of awareness. Qualitative Research Journal, 4, 2, 5-18.