OSRA promotes research and application of information technology in the end-user environment to support work processes, improve employee performance, and enhance overall organizational effectiveness in direct support of goals and strategies. OSRA is a special interest group (SIG) of the Association for Information Systems (AIS). For more information on AIS, click the link at left.

Latest OSRA News

OSRA in Lima, Peru

OSRA will sponsor several panels August 12 through 15, 2010 in conjunction with the AMCIS meeting in Lima, Peru. Click on "OSRA Conference" at left for the call for papers and submission guidelines.

Latest Newsletter Available

The January 2010 OSRA Newsletter is available. Please click on "Newsletter" at left to see it.

OSRA Journal Online

Volume 25 Number 1 of the Information Technology, Learning, and Performance Journal is now available online. Please click on "OSRA Journal" at left to see it.

OSRA in Phoenix

Our workshop at the ICIS meeting in Phoenix featured a number of interesting presentations. They included:

• IT Value Creation through Value Chain Processes: The Effect of CIO/TMT Engagement and Knowledge of Senior Executives by Orcun Temizkan and Antonis Stylianou, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
• Performance-Oriented E-Learning in the Workplace by Maggie Minhong Wang, University of Hong Kong
• Benefits of Experiential Learning in Real Client Information Technology Projects, by Karen Patten and Lynn Keane, University of South Carolina
• Enterprise 2.0: Enabling Participative Computing in the Global Workplace, by Lynn Keane and Karen Patten, University of South Carolina, Columbia
• Health Information Technology and Exchange: An Organizational Change Perspective, by Elizabeth A. Regan, Morehead State University
• The Continuing Growth of Mobile Technologies by Katia Passerini, New Jersey Institute of Technology

To see the presentations, please click on "OSRA Conference" at left.

ITL&PJ Call for Papers

The Information Technology, Learning, and Performance Journal invites you to contribute to a special issue that will feature articles related to key issues and challenges of service learning in information technology (IT) courses. Service learning is used here as a general term for learning strategies involving community‐based activities that are integrated with academic course objectives. Information technology can be addressed as support for service learning activities, the focus of service learning, or service learning implementation in the IT curriculum. (Click here for more information.)

Curriculum Available

The 2004 Organizational and End-user Information Systems curriculum is available here. Click on "Curriculum" to see it.