Jacques Du Plessis
- Associate Professor, Information Studies Admin
Education
- PhD, 2002, Utah State University (Instructional Technology)
- MA, 1992, Brigham Young University (Linguistics)
- BA 1989, Brigham Young University (Linguistics)
Bio
Jacques is an associate professor in the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He teaches courses in web development, information security, and genealogy. He is a founding member and was the first president of AGES (agesgenealogy.org), the first academic organization for Genealogy and Family History. In 2025 the Internasionale Netwerk vir Afrikaans was formed. This is an international support organization for Afrikaans as a foreign language. Jacques is a founding board member and co-chairs this organization with members in 11 countries. Recently he wrote a chapter on Ethics for the Oxford Handbook for Genealogy and Family History. He also published a paper in the teaching of Afrikaans in the USA in the South African Journal of Humanities.
Courses Taught
Sample Publications
Du Plessis, J. (2007). The future of learning objects. In Koohang, A. & Harman, K.Learning Objects: Theory, Praxis, Issues, and Trends, pp. 585-608. Santa Rosa, California: Informing Science Press.
Du Plessis J.C. (2008). "From food silos to community kitchens" - Retooling African Libraries. The International Information and Library Review, 40(1), 43-51.
Xiangming, M., Jordan, J., Jeong, W. & Du Plessis, J. (2009). Towards a combined approach to metadata in corporate knowledge management: A Case Study of GE Healthcare. Journal of Information & Knowledge Management, 8(3),189-200.
Du Plessis J.C. (2009). Instructional objectives: The journey versus the destiny perspective. Perspectives in Education. 27(3), 258-65.