Full Description
In today's dynamic global business environment where knowledge is a main asset and learning becomes the most important process, Business Education needs to employ the right practices to develop future leaders. Businesses require graduates that become true experts. But can business schools indeed create learning experiences that address the needs of the global marketplace? Can they teach students to build learning organizations?
The articles in this volume detail successful approaches developed by business educators and researchers. The approaches have been implemented to solve real problems and to provide students with the ethical and analytical abilities they will need to both compete and contribute to the betterment of others.
The thematic part of this volume focuses on the potential of interactive on-line activities to promote business and economics education. They demonstrate the benefits that learning technologies can bring and show how to overcome potential problem issues.
Contents
Introduction: The Power of Technology for Learning.- Recognition of Prior Experiential Learning in Online Postgraduate Education.- Accelerating Learning through Gaming?.- Longitudinal Study of Online Remedial Education Effects.- Effectiveness of Blended Learning in a Distance Education Setting.- Virtual Teamwork: A Product of Globalization.- Introduction: Advances in Business Education & Training - Open Part.- Designing Business Education for Ukraine: Lessons Learned.- Personal Mastery in Management Education.- Innovations in Graduate Business Education: The Challenge of Developing Principle-Centered Leaders.- The Misalignment of Management Education and Globalization: Conceptual, Contextual and Praxeological Issues.- Master of Science in Business Administration or MBA: Does It Matter?.- The Role of Critical Thinking Skills in Students' Attitudes Toward Business Subjects.- A Strategy for Business Education in a Changing World.
