Learning and Teaching for Business: Case Studies of Successful Innovation

by Hawkridge,David

• ISBN13: 9780749440251
• ISBN10: 0749440252
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer

Summary

This collection of best practice examples of business teaching should inspire and inform those involved in the improvement of teaching in higher education. Assembled by the Learning and Teaching Support Network the examples are drawn from institutions throughout the UK including: The Open University, Sheffield Hallam, City University, St Andrews, Brighton, De Montfort, Liverpool John Moores, Glasgow, Leeds Met and Plymouth. Individual case studies focus on everything from the use of action learning, resource based learning, using technology and peer assessment to the development of a knowledge management system.

Table of Contents

Figures	v
Tables	vi
Contributors	vii
Foreword	xi
Acknowledgements	xiii
1. Success in the new world of learning and teaching	1	(15)
Roland Kaye and David Hawkridge
2. Resource-based learning in the business environment	16	(15)
Roger Ottewill and Ann Wall
3. From leading edge to mainstream: the evolving Brighton Business School intranet	31	(17)
Becci Newton, Cameron Paine and Stephen Flowers
4. The International Consultancy Assignment	48	(12)
David Edelshain and Carol Vielba
5. Introducing action learning into a business school	60	(14)
Tom Bourner and John Lawson
6. Byzantium for learning accounting in English business schools	74	(15)
Ashok Patel, Anne Cook and Tudor Spencer
7. Using Monopoly© as an introduction to financial accounting	89	(17)
Graham Clayton
8. Peer assessment and enhancing students' learning	106	(16)
Anne Gregory, Liz Yeoman and Joanne Powell
9. Group work and the Web: FINESSE and TAGS	122	(16)
Rosa Michaelson, Christine Helliar, David Power, Donald Sinclair and Colin Allison
10. Using learning technology resources in teaching management accounting	138	(15)
Greg Stoner
11. Creating a Web site for studying strategic management	153	(12)
Colin Clarke-Hill and Ismo Kuhanen
12. The live consultancy case study	165	(14)
Suzanne O'Hara, Steve Reeve and Stephen Flowers
13. Building and maintaining distributed communities of practice: knowledge management in the OURS MBA	179	(17)
Stephen Little, Wendy Fowle and Paul Quintas
14. Assessing student performance	196	(12)
Sue Moon and David Hawkridge
15. Learning from success	208	(15)
Roland Kaye and David Hawkridge
Index	223