Information Technology Open Education Resources
Open Textbook Library - Information Systems
This textbook, designed for both undergraduate and/or graduate students and is used to helps to focuses on where business and technology meet.
BCcampus OpenEd - Information Technology for Business and Beyond
This textbook is about Information systems and how they are used in a business and world setting.
Bookboon - Business Information Systems
This textbook provides an overview of business information systems and provides definitions for the different systems used in companies.
Open Textbook Library - Information Systems for Business and Beyond
In this book, you will be introduced to the concept of information systems, their use in business, and the larger impact they are having on our world.
Open Textbook Library - Database Design
This book covers the concepts used in database systems and the database design process.
OER Commons - Computer Ethics and the Online World
This PowerPoint presentation is a brief lecture about the introduction to computer ethics and its implications on the online community. Common ethical issues are presented and are retrieved from valid sources. Local ethical issues from the Philippines are given to provide viewers specific examples of concerns.
Ted - What's wrong with your pa$$w0rd?
Lorrie Faith Cranor studied thousands of real passwords to figure out the surprising, very common mistakes that users -- and secured sites -- make to compromise security
The feeling of security and the reality of security don't always match, says computer-security expert Bruce Schneier. In his talk, he explains why we spend billions addressing news story risks, like the "security theater" now playing at your local airport, while neglecting more probable risks -- and how we can break this pattern.
YouTube - Keynote: The Seven Axioms of Security
As the defenses have caught up and closed open doors, we attackers have looked for new avenues and vectors. Looking back on the state of defenses from One-Way Web Hacking in 2001 to Stegosploit in 2016, a common pattern emerges. Defense boils down to reacting to new attacks and then playing catch-up.
YouTube - IBM Keynote @ Forrester Privacy & Security 2017: Marc Van Zadelhoff, IBM Security, GM
IBM Security, General Manager, Marc Van Zadelhoff, keynotes Forrester Privacy & Security 2017 showcasing the unbreakable bonds needed between data privacy and security for modern enterprises.
Open Textbook Library - Introduction to the Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems
Introduction to the Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems introduces students to mathematical/computational modeling and analysis developed in the emerging interdisciplinary field of Complex Systems Science.
OER Commons - An Introduction to Computer Networks
It covers the LAN, inter-networking and transport layers, focusing primarily on TCP/IP. Particular attention is paid to congestion; other special topics include queuing, real-time traffic, network management, security, mininet and the ns simulator.
Open Textbook Library - Computer Networking
This open textbook aims to fill the gap between the open-source implementations and the open-source network specifications by providing a detailed but pedagogical description of the key principles that guide the operation of the Internet.
Open Textbook Library - Computer Networks
The aim of this textbook is to describe the available building materials and then to show how they can be used to construct a network from the ground up.
OER Commons - The growing role of AI and ML in data security
The organizations that depend largely on collecting data from various sources or are highly digitized must adopt data security.
Bookboon - Artificial Intelligence - Agent Behaviour
This book is the second in a series on Artificial Intelligence. It adopts a behaviour-based approach to the design of agent-oriented systems.
Bookboon - Artificial Intelligence: Exercises I
This free “Artificial Intelligence: Exercises I” eBook will guide you through useful exercises related to the “Agent Behavior” text.
Bookboon - Artificial Intelligence - Agents and Environments
This book is the first in a series on Artificial Intelligence. It provides an introduction to the topic with an emphasis on the use of agent-oriented design.
Bookboon - Artificial Intelligence: Exercises II
This Artificial Intelligence: Exercises II eBook will guide you through useful exercises related to the “Agent Behavior” text. Both the source text and this exercise eBook can be downloaded for free.
Bookboon - Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
This book is a concise introduction to key philosophical questions in artificial intelligence that have long been debated by many of the great minds in the field.
United Nations - E-commerce and e-business
In the emerging global economy, e-commerce and e-business have increasingly become a necessary component of business strategy and a strong catalyst for economic development. The integration of information and communications technology (ICT) in business has revolutionized relationships within organizations and those between and among organizations and individuals. Specifically, the use of ICT in business has enhanced productivity, encouraged greater customer participation, and enabled mass customization, besides reducing costs.
Bookboon - Introduction to E-Commerce
From technologies to processes, from B2C to B2B, from payment to security, the book investigates E-Commerce integrated – for readers with an economic as well as with a computer science background.
Bookboon - The Basics of Business Models
This book introduces you to the basic knowledge you need to understand what business models are and how they can be analysed and communicated.
Bookboon - Business Model Design
The field of business models is about to become a core management discipline alongside accounting, finance, organization etc.
This textbook covers the human side of the information seeking.
Interactive Design Foundation - The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction
This Encyclopedia covers the design of interactive products and services such as websites and many other items.
Open Textbook Library - Risk Management for Enterprise and Individuals
This book is intended for the Risk Management and Insurance course where Risk Management is emphasized.
Open Textbook Library - Enterprise Pharo a Web Perspective
It covers enterprise libraries and frameworks, and in particular those useful for doing web development. The book is structured in five parts.
BCcampus OpenEd - Digital Accessibility as a Business Practice
Most business leaders would agree that reaching the broadest audience is good for a business’s bottom line. A good portion of that audience will be people with disabilities. How, though, would an organization go about ensuring it is as accessible as it can be to all its potential clients or customers, including people with disabilities? This book has been created to answer this question, and to demystify “digital accessibility” as a business practice.