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Mantai, Lilia; Huber, Elaine – Journal of Management Education, 2021
As student enrolments grow and student diversity increases in many areas of higher education, faculty face challenges to support and ensure individual student learning and development. At the same time, active and experiential approaches to learning are recognized for their potential to develop autonomy and critical thinking, among other valuable…
Descriptors: Barriers, Management Development, College Faculty, Student Diversity
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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
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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
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Rollag, Keith; Billsberry, Jon – Journal of Management Education, 2012
Education has always been slow on the uptake of new technology. Instructors have established time-worn methods of teaching, and the performance nature of the job puts an emphasis on reliability and predictability. The last thing an instructor wants to be doing is fumbling around trying to make something work in front of an audience of 200…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Active Learning, Administrator Education, Learning Experience
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Krom, Cynthia L. – Journal of Management Education, 2012
This article explores the use of the free Zynga computer game FarmVille, which is played in conjunction with Facebook[R], to facilitate active learning in a managerial accounting course. Results indicate that it invokes an improved understanding of the accounting content, particularly among nonaccounting majors; a high level of student…
Descriptors: Nonmajors, Assignments, Accounting, Active Learning
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Chavez, Carolyn I.; Hu Poirier, Vickie – Journal of Management Education, 2007
This article is an extension of a presentation that won "Best Exercise" at the Eastern Academy of Management, 1998. The authors introduce an experiential gourmet approach using "food stories" to stimulate an aura of acceptance and appreciation for human commonalities before delving into human differences. The authors use a semester long…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Management Development, Teaching Methods, Food
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Gibson, Donald E. – Journal of Management Education, 2006
This exercise explores how organizations affect individuals' feelings and expressions of emotion. Although recent attention by management theorists suggests that emotions are an important aspect of organizational life, people's actual experience of emotions at work often do not reflect this emphasis: Work-place emotions remain, in large part,…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Organizational Effectiveness, Management Development, Work Environment