Educational Innovation in Economics and Business IX: Breaking Boundaries for Global Learning

by Richard G. Milter (Editor), Valerie S. Perotti (Editor), Mien S.R. Segers (Editor)

Overview

Like previous volumes in the Educational Innovation in Economics and Business Series, this book is genuinely international in terms of its coverage. With contributions from nine different countries and three continents, it reflects a global 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, marketing, 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.

This volume brings together a collection of articles describing different aspects of the developments taking place in today’s workplace and how they affect business education. It describes strategies for breaking boundaries for global learning. These target specific techniques regarding teams and collaborative learning, transitions from academic settings to the workplace, the role of IT in the learning process, and program-level innovation strategies. This volume addresses issues faced by professionals in higher and further education and also those involved in corporate training centers and industry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402031700
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	09/12/2005
Series:	Educational Innovation in Economics and Business , #9
Edition description:	2004
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	8.27(w) x 11.69(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

Breaking Boundaries for Global Learning.- Teams and Collaborative Learning.- Creating Conditions for Collaborative Learning.- Michaelsen’s Model of Team-Based Learning Applied in Undergraduate Kinesiology Classes.- Cross-Cultural Virtual Teamwork: Implications from the Multicultural E-Classroom.- Collaborative Learning Applied in the Orientation Process of Undergraduate Students.- Transitioning from Academic Settings to the Workplace.- Online Learning: Learner’s Liberation?.- Learning to Work: Easing the Transition.- Breaking the Boundaries Between Academic Degrees and Lifelong Learning.- An Innovation in Access: Developing the Generic Skills of Business Students Through a Virtual Corporate Experience.- Role of Information Technology in the Learning Process.- Can “Learning by Teaching” Contribute to E-Learning?.- A Collaborative Tool for Argumentation-Based Learning: Examining Face-to-Face and Computer-Based Approaches in a UK Secondary School.- Adapting a Face-to-Face Training Program to a Distance Delivery Model: A Case Study of a Professional Training Program.- An Innovative Approach to Addressing Heterogeneity of Large Classes: Results from Teaching Business Statistics.- Using Information Technology in Teamwork During Collaborative Extra-Class Activities.- Program-Level Innovation Strategy.- Contextual Learning in Higher Education.- A Multi-Step Process for Assessing Student Outcomes in the Business Curriculum.- Student Characteristics and Academic Success.- Making Space for Twenty-First Century Management Learning.- The Value of Multidisciplinary Integration: Evidence from two Engineering Courses.- A Survey of Distance Education Programs.

Editorial Reviews

"Global learning requires boundary-less knowledge sharing and collaborative learning. This volume of papers shows how to create boundary-breaking behaviour in the areas of teams and collaborative learning, integrating working and learning in the workplace, the added value of IT in the learning process and innovative educational processes. The key message is: erase the boundaries that separate work and learning. Reinvent work, re-imagine learning.

Breaking boundaries down requires the making of radical changes and transformations. However in many cases those boundaries continue to exist in the minds of people responsible for leading those changes. Enter the ‘boundary busters’- people with a boundary-breaking mentality. Are you ready to live in a world without boundaries? The present volume, based on research, analyses, and examination of good practices, proves that ‘boundary busting’ is part of the ‘daily routine’ of the authors representing the EDiNEB Network. Join them before they pay you an unexpected visit and break your boundaries."

(Frank Lekanne Deprez, September 2004)

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