Arthur Tatnall
Victoria University, Information Systems, Faculty Member
- Education, Information Technology, Technology, Educational Technology, Information Systems, Innovation statistics, and 16 moreActor Network Theory, Lifelong Learning, Health Informatics, ICT, Educational Informatics, Academic Technology, Sociotechnical Systems, Health Information Systems, Models of Innovation, Technology Acceptance, The Culture of Technologies and Interfaces, Interfaces, Inventions, Innovation Processes, ICT in Education, and E-Commerceedit
- Dr Arthur Tatnall is an Adjunct Professor at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia. His PhD involved a study in... moreDr Arthur Tatnall is an Adjunct Professor at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia. His PhD involved a study in curriculum innovation in which he investigated the manner in which Visual Basic entered the curriculum of an Australian university. His research interests include technological innovation, history of technology, project management, information systems curriculum, information technology in educational management and electronic commerce. He is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society, active in the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Education and Information Technologies.edit
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This paper examines the development of a number of computers designed and built in Australia that really changed everything! Australia designed and built CSIRAC, the fourth stored program computer in the world. Prior to this however, in... more
This paper examines the development of a number of computers designed and built in Australia that really changed everything! Australia designed and built CSIRAC, the fourth stored program computer in the world. Prior to this however, in 1913 the Automatic Totalisator, although not a computer, performed many of the calculations later done by computers. SILLIAC, based on the ILLIAC was built in Australia. UTCOM and WREDAC, although built in the UK, were extensively modified in Australia. In the early microcomputer era the Australian designed and built Microbee computer was used extensively in homes and schools. The paper then discusses the ill-fated project to design and built an Australian Educational Computer. These computers were each designed and built for a purpose and the paper looks at the people, technologies and events that propelled this process. Actor-network theory is used as a lens for understanding the human and non-human elements of these historical developments.
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Gaining an understanding of Information Systems and improving IS education has become a serious issue for the IS discipline. Prior to undertaking Management Information Systems (MIS) in an MBA course, students sometimes cannot clearly... more
Gaining an understanding of Information Systems and improving IS education has become a serious issue for the IS discipline. Prior to undertaking Management Information Systems (MIS) in an MBA course, students sometimes cannot clearly explain exactly what information systems are and what they should do in practice. This paper begins by considering the various influences on the MIS curriculum and some of the conventional approaches to curriculum design, selection and organisation of teaching materials. It then offers an alternative approach by presenting a three question framework for understanding and explaining the IS field. From this basis the paper argues that these three questions can be used to guide the study, teaching and practice of MIS.
Research Interests: Information Systems, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Knowledge Management, Multidisciplinary, and 8 moreCurriculum, Engineering Ethics, Business Systems, Curriculum and Pedagogy, School of Information Management and Systems, IS Discipline, Management Information Systems (MIS), and Information System
Education and Information Technologies (EAIT) is the official journal of the Technical Committee on Education (TC3) of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). It is a research journal that covers the complex... more
Education and Information Technologies (EAIT) is the official journal of the Technical Committee on Education (TC3) of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). It is a research journal that covers the complex relationships between information and communication technologies and education, from the micro of specific applications or instances of use in classrooms to macro concerns of national policies and major projects; from classes of pre-schoolers to adults in tertiary institutions; from teachers and administrators; to researchers and designers; from institutions to open, distance and lifelong learning. The journal’s breadth of coverage allows EAIT to examine fundamental issues at all levels, discuss specific instances and cases, draw inference and probe theory. This journal is embedded in the research and practice of professionals and has been accepted into the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) in the category ‘Education & Educational Research’. Dedicated,...
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Research Interests: Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Educational Technology, Computer Science Education, and 12 moreProject Management, Project manager, Teaching Methods, Subject Areas, Project Planning, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION, Learning Model, IT Project Management, Student feedback, Curriculum and Pedagogy, Student Evaluation, and Monitoring and control
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This paper describes the Ultranet, a recent eGovernment initiative affecting Victorian Government Schools. The Ultranet will affect all Victorian students and their parents, teachers, school principals and school communities. The Ultranet... more
This paper describes the Ultranet, a recent eGovernment initiative affecting Victorian Government Schools. The Ultranet will affect all Victorian students and their parents, teachers, school principals and school communities. The Ultranet is essentially an extended intranet/extranet but with facilities to inform parents and to offer collaboration features to teachers. It appears to be something not attempted anywhere before. This paper describes the Ultranet, how it has been developed and particularly how it is to be used to inform parents. As the Ultranet was only beginning to come into operation by late 2010 it has been possible to include only a few research findings here and so the paper is mainly theoretical. The paper also looks at how another country sees the possibilities of a system like the Ultranet.
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Paper presented at the International Information Systems Conference (iiSC),held at Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanat of Oman, October 11-12, 2011
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This article examines how research publications in education and information technologies have changed over the last twenty-five years. The authors investigate articles published in the journal: Education and Information Technologies... more
This article examines how research publications in education and information technologies have changed over the last twenty-five years. The authors investigate articles published in the journal: Education and Information Technologies (EAIT). To celebrate a quarter-century of this publication. They take a retrospective view of the EAIT journal, using Historical Research methodology to show some of the trends in topics covered and to interrogate the expanding cultural background of published authors. While computer technology has developed rapidly over this time, research methodologies, international collaborations, and discipline areas have multiplied quickly. Finally, this article identifies some unique papers that have appeared in print and provides glimpses into what the future may hold.
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In the mid 1990s the programming language Visual Basic (VB) fought hard to enter the undergraduate information systems curriculum at RMIT University, against resistance from two incumbent programming languages. It could not, of course,... more
In the mid 1990s the programming language Visual Basic (VB) fought hard to enter the undergraduate information systems curriculum at RMIT University, against resistance from two incumbent programming languages. It could not, of course, work alone in this and enlisted the assistance of a human ally known as Fred. The incumbent programming languages, Pick Basic and the Alice machine language simulator, also had their human allies to assist them in resisting the assault of the newcomer. In many ways, it is useful to think of all these programming languages as black boxes made up of hybrid entities containing both human and non-human parts, along with a conglomeration of networks, interactions, and associations. The non-human cannot act alone, but without them, the human parts have nothing to contest.
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Research Interests: Engineering, History, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, History Of Computing, and 14 moreEducational Technology, Computer Science Education, Continuing Professional Development, Australia, Software Development, Teacher professional development, Schools, Multitude, Teachers, Microcomputers, Computer Aided Instruction, Education Market, IT, and College of Business
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Research Interests: Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Education, Actor Network Theory, and 9 morePublic Relations, ICT, Online Learning, Information and Communications Technology, Education Systems, Education System, Project Failure, Information & Communication Technologies In Education ICT&E, and College of Business
Change in higher education information systems, and other informing science curricula is inevitable. This paper offers a brief consideration of three different models that can be used to describe how this change occurs. Most curriculum... more
Change in higher education information systems, and other informing science curricula is inevitable. This paper offers a brief consideration of three different models that can be used to describe how this change occurs. Most curriculum texts give prime consideration to approaches to curriculum change based on research, development and diffusion models, and the paper outlines some objections to the application of models of this type to describing how university curriculum in the informing sciences is built and rebuilt. It offers instead three alternate models; one based on an ecological metaphor, another on curriculum negotiations and the third on innovation translation from actor-network theory, to describe how this process occurs. This is a theoretical paper that does not advocate one model over another, and does not propose the use of any one of these models in devising a new curriculum. It is concerned only with obtaining a better understanding of how this complex process occurs.
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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an evolving technology innovation that uses radio waves for data collection and transfer without human involvement. With its success worldwide in hospitals for improving efficiencies and thereby... more
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an evolving technology innovation that uses radio waves for data collection and transfer without human involvement. With its success worldwide in hospitals for improving efficiencies and thereby quality of care, the technology was piloted in Australian hospitals in late 2000s. However, existing literature (in 2013) reflects limited success in a full-scale implementation and emerging view that the socio-technical factors in implementation are not being considered. Information systems researchers in Australia had begun emphasizing socio-technical approaches in innovation adoption and translation of technology in the context. A qualitative research study, with a multiple case study method was set in this premise in 2007 and aimed at addressing the knowledge gap. Information for the case studies was obtained through a rigorous data collection through semi-structured interviews, focus groups, concept mapping and documentation analysis. The finding...
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ABSTRACT Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a technology that has been deployed successfully for asset tracking within hospitals aimed at improving the quality of processes. In the Australian hospitals context however, adoption of... more
ABSTRACT Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a technology that has been deployed successfully for asset tracking within hospitals aimed at improving the quality of processes. In the Australian hospitals context however, adoption of this technology seem sporadic. This research reports on a long-term investigation to gain a deeper understanding of the socio-technical factors involved in the adoption of RFID in Australian hospitals. The research was conducted using interpretive multiple case methodology and results analyzed through the Actor-Network Theoretical (ANT) Lens.
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In the early 2000s, Information Systems researchers in Australia had begun to emphasise socio-technical approaches in innovation adoption of technologies. The ‘essentialist' approaches to adoption (for example, Innovation Diffusion or... more
In the early 2000s, Information Systems researchers in Australia had begun to emphasise socio-technical approaches in innovation adoption of technologies. The ‘essentialist' approaches to adoption (for example, Innovation Diffusion or TAM), suggest an essence is largely responsible for rate of adoption (Tatnall, 2011) or a new technology introduced may spark innovation. The socio-technical factors in implementing an innovation are largely flouted by researchers and hospitals. Innovation Translation is an approach that purports that any innovation needs to be customised and translated in to context before it can be adopted. Equally, Actor-Network Theory (ANT) is an approach that embraces the differences in technical and human factors and socio-professional aspects in a non-deterministic manner. The research reported in this paper is an attempt to combined the two approaches in an effective manner, to visualise the socio-technical factors in RFID technology adoption in an Australi...