Educational Innovation in Economics and Business: Pedagogy, Technology and Innovation

✍ Scribed by David Russell, David Calvey, Mark Banks (auth.), Roger Ottewill, Liz Borredon, Laurent Falque, Bruce Macfarlane, Ann Wall (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 406
• Series: Educational Innovation in Economics and Business 8
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Like previous volumes in the "Educational Innovation in Economics and Business" series, this one is genuinely international in terms of its coverage. With contributions from ten different countries and four continents, it reflects the worldwide interest in, and commitment to, innovation in business education with a view to enhancing the learning experience of both undergraduates and postgraduates. It should prove of value to anyone engaged directly in business education, defined broadly to embrace management, finance, economics, informational studies and ethics, or who has responsibility for fostering the professional development of business educators. The contributions have been selected with the objective of encouraging and inspiring others as well as illustrating developments in the sphere of business education.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
How E-Learning Businesses Meet Client and End User Needs: Analysing the Collaborative Contexts....Pages 3-17
Business Process, Experience and Memory: Educational Approaches and Technology Tools for a Global Workforce....Pages 19-40
Front Matter....Pages 41-41
From High Level Clarity to Ground Level Confusion: Exactly Where do IT-Mediated Education Policies Fit?....Pages 43-59
Moving a University Toward On-line Learning: Opportunities, Challenges, and Technologies....Pages 61-76
Linking Pedagogical Innovation and Information Technology to Enhance Business Education....Pages 77-91
The Experience of Self-Organized Learning Through the Use of Learning Plans for Knowledge Management....Pages 93-110
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Using Student Consulting Team Assignments as a Vehicle to Teach a Systems Development Course....Pages 113-127
Using Team Learning in the Classroom: Experiences and Lessons....Pages 129-146
Using Teams in the Classroom: Meeting the Challenge of Evaluating Students’ Work....Pages 147-160
International Management: Early Experience in Multicultural Virtual Team Interaction....Pages 161-172
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
PRAXIS: A Practice-Based Instructional System in the First Year of an Industrial Engineering Program....Pages 175-187
Using the Web for Problem-Based Learning....Pages 189-204
Effects of Problem-Based Learning in Business Education: A Comparison Between a PBL and a Conventional Educational Approach....Pages 205-227
Learning about Teaching Information Systems in a Problem-Based Curriculum: An Exploratory Study of the Impact of Students’ Individual Differences on their Conception and Perception of Problem Tasks....Pages 229-251
Front Matter....Pages 253-253
The Use of a Virtual Learning Environment to Support Learners on Work-Based Learning Programs....Pages 255-271
Distance Learning: The Experience of Accounting at the University of Natal (Durban), South Africa....Pages 273-287
Creating and Improving a “Virtual Object” Through Web-Mediated Discourse....Pages 289-313
Testing Social Information Processing Theories in Distance Education....Pages 315-330
Front Matter....Pages 331-331
Electronic Tutorial for Moral Reasoning in Business Education: A Technological Learning Tool to Facilitate Students’ Moral Reasoning....Pages 333-346
The Five Key Benefits of On-line Final Examinations (with Three Free Bonus Benefits)....Pages 347-358
Front Matter....Pages 331-331
Assertion-Reason Assessment in Formative and Summative Tests: Results from Two Graduate Case Studies....Pages 359-378
Exploring the Implications of Videoconferencing for Management Learning....Pages 379-392
Back Matter....Pages 393-401

✦ Subjects

Education (general); Learning & Instruction; Educational Technology