Grandon Gill
Professor
Grandon Gill teaches introductory and intermediate courses in C++ for undergraduates and the MS in MIS capstone course. He has taught a variety of IT courses during his tenure at USF, from computer systems concepts to doctoral case methods. He received USF’s Outstanding Teacher Award in 2007.
Gill is passionate about using technology as a teaching tool and has studied distance learning, strategy, and practice, alternative course designs, and tools for course development and delivery, all under the general heading of informing science. His research in this area has been published in many journals, including Informing Science, Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, the Journal of Information Systems Education, eLearn, and the Journal of IT Education. He has also published multiple times in MIS Quarterly, the MIS discipline’s leading journal—his most recent article considering the MIS fields from an informing science perspective. His academic service includes stints on the editorial boards of six journals. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Informing Science: the International Journal of the Emerging Transdiscipline and was recently named a Fellow of the Informing Science Institute.
He holds an AB (cum laude) from Harvard College and an MBA (high distinction) and DBA from Harvard Business School. Gill joined USF in 2001, coming from Florida Atlantic University, where he received two teaching awards. He was previously a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy.
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room: CIS 2078 | phone: 813.974.6755 | fax: 813.974.6755 | grandon@usf.edu
Teaching
- ISM 3232 - Business Application Development
- ISM 6155 - Enterprise Information Systems
Current Research
Gill's current research thrust is in the transdiscipline known as informing science. Working closely with the Informing Science Institute, where I was recently named a Fellow, my goal is to better understand the mechanisms of, and obstacles to, effective informing under conditions of complexity. My particular problem of interest is better understanding why the collective output of business research is a matter of complete indifference to the business practitioner community. My research in this area has recently been published in the top-ranked MIS journal, MIS Quarterly, and is central to two books that I am currently developing: "Informing Business: Research and Education on a Rugged Landscape" and "Informing with the Case Method", both to be published in 2010.
Service
Gill's major service activity is serving as Editor-in-Chief of Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline and as Editor of the Journal of IT Education. At the university level, I currently serve as Chair of the Council on Technology for Instruction and Research. In addition, I am acting as Southeast Regional Coordinator of the CA Case Competition.
