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How the AIS can Improve its Contributions to the UN’s Sustainability Development Goals: Towards A Framework for Scaling Collaborations and Evaluating Impact

Richard T. WatsonRamesh ShardaDevinder ThapaLakshmi S. IyerAshish GuptaNamchul ShinJacqueline CorbettSagnika SenA. FeizabadiDaniel FarkasJane WebsterSteve Elliot

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Geographic information systemHigher educationAnalyticsbusiness.industryPolitical scienceSustainabilityPandemicBig dataDistance educationInformation systemPublic relationsbusinessInformation Systems

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In March, 2020, the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic affected the information systems (IS) higher education community (along with the rest of the world) profoundly. Higher education institutes across the world had to quickly shift to online courses. In some cases, faculty had to transition their courses in only days. In response, the Communications of the Association for Information Systems launched a special issue on COVID-19, learning, pedagogy, and educational systems to provide a forum for IS faculty around the world to share effective practices and opinions regarding the long-term consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on IS education. This paper serves as the editorial for the special issue.

https://doi.org/10.17705/1cais.04841