Teaching about Information Technology in Nations: Building and Using the "Landscape of IT" Repository
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Executive Summary The article describes successful learning methods for teaching about international Information Technology (IT) at two US business schools. The first case is an MBA course that, over the last eight years, built a repository of the “Landscape of IT in Nations” now used by people around the world. The second (combined Masters and BA) course has made use of this repository and introduced additional innovative learning techniques.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- JITE
دوره 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2003