This study explores the fundamental philosophical differences found in the ethical decision making approaches of students enrolled in a Management Information Systems (MIS) course required at an accredited university in New England. The decision choices of the students were classified according to five widely accepted theories of ethics: (a) Axiological, (b) Deontological, (c) Perfectionist, (d...

The use of social technology in classroom has shown various results. This paper focuses on using social technology as a casebased learning tool. A total of 116 students in a public university in Thailand were formed into teams, and spent two weeks in discussing a Harvard business case via the social technology; Edmodo. After the experiment, an online survey is conducted with these participants ...

Team-based learning (TBL) is an instructional strategy developed by Professor Larry Michaelsen at the University of Oklahoma’s Business School, USA, in the early 1990s. He developed it because his class enrollments were increasing, he questioned the effectiveness of lectures, and he wanted to use classroom time for students to solve the kinds of problems they would face in the business world. P...

Incorporating Work Integrated Learning (WIL) into business curriculum has now become a popular way of improving university graduates’ employability. This study provides empirical evidence of the effect of an WIL program designed and implemented through a project on students’ self-efficacy within an accounting information systems course in an Australian business school. Data from a questionnaire...

At the University of Tennessee, The Grand Challenge Scholar program operates in conjunction with the Honors Engineering Leadership minor (HELM) and emphasizes leadership training as part of interdisciplinary coursework preparing engineering students to work at the boundaries of their profession with business, entrepreneurship, ethics, and human behavior. We have formed a partnership with the De...

In the context of the polyparadigmatic system of higher education, the noospheric psychological-pedagogical paradigm is considered, on its basis a lingvodidactic model is developed for the formation of professional-communicative competence (PCC) in Russian-language business communication among foreign students. The research focuses on the basic principles of the noospheric paradigm, which procl...

Corresponding Author: Aya M. Mostafa Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computers and Information, Helwan University, Egypt Email: [email protected] Abstract: Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) is a major new approach to enhance students' performance level at any higher education institution. Moreover, it supports decision making based on the extracted information. It works as a fra...

Virtual Worlds have the potential to transform the way people learn, work, and play. With the emerging fields of service science and design science, professors and students at universities are in a unique position to lead the research and development of innovative and value-adding virtual worlds. However, a key barrier in the development of virtual worlds—especially for business, technical, and...

More and more business schools are offering classes online or classes using a mix of face-to-face and online elements. In this article, we focus on how technology readiness and learning-goal orientation influence students’ preference toward these mixed classes. We conducted a large-scale survey to determine whether students who are technology ready would place higher utility on enrolling in mix...