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Appreciating Large Classes: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Foster a Hospitable Learning Space for Experiential Learning
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Trinh, Mai P.; van Esch, Chantal; Martinez, Hector A.; Messer, Tracey – Journal of Management Education, 2021
Experiential learning has been documented as an effective method for student learning, yet its use in large-enrollment classes remains limited. Kolb's experiential learning theory emphasizes that experiential learning requires a hospitable learning space (HLS) that is conducive to learning. In this article, we reframe the challenges to…
Descriptors: Management Development, Experiential Learning, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
Accelerating Project-Based Learning in Management Contexts: An Examination of Impacted
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Jackson, Nicole C.; Halbert, Austin – Management Teaching Review, 2021
With greater demand for business educators and students to focus on 21st-century skills, project-based learning (PBL) has become increasingly important. The PBL method complements existing curriculum by enabling direct transference of course concepts into real-world application. Despite known benefits, some management educators may shy away from…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Management Development, Business Administration Education
Teaching Operations Management with Virtual Reality: Bringing the Factory to the Students
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Netland, Torbjørn H.; Flaeschner, Oliver; Maghazei, Omid; Brown, Karin – Journal of Management Education, 2020
Recent developments in virtual reality (VR) technologies offer new opportunities for teaching management courses. The objective of this article is to present one way to use VR to teach operations management. In partnership with a global manufacturer, we integrate virtual environments of the manufacturers' real factories in a course assignment. The…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Business Administration Education, Management Development, Simulated Environment
Doing Different Things or Doing Things Different: Exploring the Role of Action Learning in Innovation
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Abbott, Christine; Weiss, Michael – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2016
The notion of action learning driven innovation is explored with reference to three action-learning projects carried out in the last year and a proposed multi stakeholder project starting in 2016. The authors also provide an account of "innovation", including its rationale and characteristics, and argues for its particular suitability in…
Descriptors: Role, Active Learning, Innovation, Problem Solving
Using Sales Management Students to Manage Professional Selling Students in an Innovative Active Learning Project
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Young, Joyce A.; Hawes, Jon M. – Marketing Education Review, 2013
This paper describes an application of active learning within two different courses: professional selling and sales management. Students assumed the roles of sales representatives and sales managers for an actual fund-raiser--a golf outing--sponsored by a student chapter of the American Marketing Association. The sales project encompassed an…
Descriptors: Marketing, Business Administration Education, Professional Associations, Active Learning
What Has Action Learning Learned to Become?
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Pedler, Mike; Burgoyne, John; Brook, Cheryl – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2005
This inquiry originates in a conversation between the first two authors which concluded with the challenge that a Revans Institute for Action Learning & Research should not only be doing research "by" action learning and but should also be researching "into" action learning itself. Action learning has been a recognised…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Evaluation Research