The Electronic Commerce Knowledge Base (ECKB) is a collection of  learning material used in the Electronic Commerce (EC) course taught at Grand Valley State University by Simha R. Magal. 

Others are free to use this material for nonprofit educational purposes.  If you choose to use this material, an e-mail message explaining the use will be appreciated.

This material is divided into five modules as follows:

• Introduction.  This module introduces the phenomenon of Electronic Commerce and briefly describes  other major modules and  their role in understanding EC.
• Tools.  In this module a variety of tools and technologies used in developing EC applications are discussed.
• Applications.  This module describes a framework for understanding EC applications.  Numerous categories of applications are explained and their value to organizations is discussed.
• Development.  A methodology for developing EC applications - The Electronic Commerce Plan (ECP) - is described and the various issues related to the design and development of EC applications are addressed.
• Issues.  The final module focuses on the key management issues such as security and privacy .

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