Choice models for the evaluation and selection of software packages
Journal of Management Information Systems
Courseware evaluation by teachers: an implementation perspective
Computers & Education
Choosing and using educational software: a teachers' guide
Choosing and using educational software: a teachers' guide
A case study in applying a systematic method for COTS selection
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Software engineering
Usability and learning: evaluating the potential of educational software
Computers & Education
Criteria for simulation software evaluation
Proceedings of the 30th conference on Winter simulation
COTS products characterization
SEKE '02 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software engineering and knowledge engineering
Evaluating Educational Software Environments
ICCE '02 Proceedings of the International Conference on Computers in Education
A Classification and Summary of Software Evaluation and Selection Methodologies
A Classification and Summary of Software Evaluation and Selection Methodologies
Development of the TUP Model " Evaluating Educational Software
ICALT '04 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies
COTS Software Selection Process
ICCBSS '07 Proceedings of the Sixth International IEEE Conference on Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS)-Based Software Systems
An objective comparison of languages for teaching introductory programming
Proceedings of the 6th Baltic Sea conference on Computing education research: Koli Calling 2006
Collaboration tools in a one-semester software engineering course: what worked? what didn't?
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
Using Quality Models in Software Package Selection
IEEE Software
Evaluating and selecting software packages: A review
Information and Software Technology
An empirical study on selection of Open Source Software - Preliminary results
FLOSS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 ICSE Workshop on Emerging Trends in Free/Libre/Open Source Software Research and Development
Evaluation of knowledge management tools using AHP
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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The evaluation and selection of software tools for use in an IS or IT curriculum is difficult not only because actual industry software tools are often used but also because there is no formal approach to guide the process. How does one choose between SQL Server and MySQL, or Dreamweaver and Expression Studio? IS and IT educators must periodically go through the process of assessing the most suitable tools for their courses. Given how common such decisions are and how frequently they must be made, it is surprising to find that there is a lack of literature that deals with comparative studies of software tools for higher education. This paper proposes a set of criteria for the selection of software tools for IS and IT programs, explains how multi-criteria decision analysis can be used to weight those criteria, and details an approach for the application of those weighted criteria. The proposed approach is structured and replicable, and allows for a more thorough evaluation of the available options and a more easily supportable selection.