Associate Professor, Computer Information Systems and Business Analytics
babikdx@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Teaching & Research Interests
- Critical thinking and systems thinking
- Wicked problem solving and open innovation
- Social learning analytics and visualizations
- Agile system development and Scrum
- Interdisciplinary project-based learning
Education
- Ph.D., Information Systems, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2015
- MSITM, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2011
- MBA, Tulane University, 2004
- MA, Economics, CERGE-EI, Charles University, Czechia, 2002
- Specialist, Management, National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute", 1998
Select Publications
Babik, D. (2022). Scrum Boot Camp: Introducing Students to Agile System Development. Journal of Information Systems Education, 33(3), 195-208.
Babik, D., & Babik, I. (2022). Change in Students’ Peer Evaluations of Requirements Elicitation Interviews Across the Pre-pandemic and Pandemic-affected Semesters. Journal of Information Systems Education, 33(3), 283-299.
Babik, D., Stevens, S., Waters, A., & Tinapple, D. (2020). The Effects of Dispersion and Reciprocity on Assessment Fidelity in Peer-review Systems. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 13(3), 580-592.
Babik, D., & Lending, D. (2020). Visualizing IS Course Objectives and Marketable Skills. Journal of Information Systems Education, 31(4), 260-268 (Teaching and Learning Publication Second Place Award JMU College of Business 2022).
Babik, D., Singh, R., Zhao, X., & Ford, E. (2017). What You Think and What I Think? Studying Intersubjectivity in Evaluation of Knowledge Artifacts. Information Systems Frontiers, 19(1), 31-56.
Awards and Recognitions
- Best Paper Award, Journal of Information Systems Education (JISE), 2022
- Teaching and Learning Publication Award (2nd Place), College of Business, James Madison University, 2022
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM), 2019
- Summer Teaching Grant, James Madison University, 2022
- Summer Research Grant, James Madison University, 2017, 2018