Over the past few years, our institution has been in the process of rethinking the structure of our College of Business curriculum. This is motivated by three major factors: Demands of industry for the inclusion of “soft skills” in our curriculum, the recent emphasis by AACSB on assessment of student learning, and dissatisfaction with the performance of the core MIS course. This paper describes...

The goal of this research is to develop and evaluate a curriculum that teaches ERP concepts and skills using hands-on practical tasks in a globalised context. The curriculum employs Kolb's experiential learning cycle to facilitate student learning about the issues associated with internationalisation and globalisation of business operations and the use of ERP systems. A small pilot study was un...

This paper describes our plan to use a single business case scenario as a mechanism for integrating our undergraduate IT curriculum. Our proposal is to use an on-line course management tool, as well as an integrated CASE tool, as repositories to facilitate the conceptual and physical integration of courses in our undergraduate Information Technology major. The business case will serve as the ba...

What is an IT Bachelor program and how can one be identified? In recent years, specific IT programs have arisen in the US to fill an industry need not directly provided for by other computing disciplines. IT programs are growing in number and influence yet can be hard to identify for several reasons: They are not always titled “Information Technology.” They are housed in various colleges and sc...

This discussion paper gives an overview of the shortcomings of existing computer-based business simulation games and identifies the requirements for developing an integrated gaming environment based on active intelligent agents and interactive pedagogical agents. In particular, methods are presented to integrate a business game vertically and horizontally employing reusable intelligent agent te...

Examines the concept of service quality in business education with data collected from 388 students. Identifies seven factors which influence student evaluations of service quality. In descending order of importance these factors are: reputation, administrative personnel, faculty, curriculum, responsiveness, physical evidence and access to facilities. Describes the implications for controlling ...

Scotland’s new Curriculum for Excellence has re-ignited an old debate about the status of the social subjects in the curriculum (Geography, Modern Studies and History). Put broadly, this concerns the issue of whether these subjects should be taught as discrete entities within the junior secondary curriculum (S1-3) or as part of a more integrated approach. The balance in this debate seems to hav...

We present a case study of a successful response to outsourcing, and IS job and enrollment declines through an IS curriculum redevelopment in a business school. First, we examine literature on outsourcing/offshoring phenomenon and on IS curricular redesign. A conceptual framework is presented that is useful in understanding the role of global collaborative group projects for learning about outs...